Language in motion : exploring the nature of sign / Jerome D. Schein and David A. Stewart.
Language in motion : exploring the nature of sign / Jerome D. Schein and David A. Stewart.
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Publisher
Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N305.908162/11
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. A Brief History of Sign Language -- 2. The Structure of Sign Language -- 3. Let Your Fingers Do the Talking -- 4. The Many Faces of Signing -- 5. Learning to Sign -- 6. Sign Language Economics -- 7. The Deaf Community -- Appendix A: The Stokoe Notation System -- Appendix B: Manual Approaches from...
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Publisher
Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1995.
Place of Publication
District of Columbia
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
Once readers have become familiar with the attributes of ASL, Language in Motion offers for consideration the process required to learn sign language and to put sign language to work to communicate in the Deaf community, which is also described in absorbing detail. Appendices featuring the manual alphabets of three countries and a notation system d...
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Language in motion : exploring the nature of sign / Jerome D. Schein and David A. Stewart.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-216) and index.
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N305.908162/11
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74VMBq0BQNmZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMBq0BQNmZ
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305.908162
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991002299849702626
