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Offers a beginning vocabulary based on the grammar and syntax of native signers and illustrating the eye contact, facial expressions, and body language that accompany hand and mouth movements.
Presents materials designed to introduce members of the Deaf community and the general public to the sociolinguistic variation in ASL.
This book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by directional signs.
Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language considers how ASL expresses non-agent focus, similar to the meaning of passive voice in English.
Explores the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among Deaf people between the 1850s-1920s
In a study written from within the deaf community, the authors demonstrate how deaf people live historically, culturally, and linguistically complex lives, and how being or becoming deaf opens the door to an enormously rewarding life.
This book considers in depth the notion that deaf people are members of a bilingual-bicultural minority group, whose experiences often overlap with the experiences of hearing minority group members but at other times are unique.
The second edition of Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States critically examines how Deaf culture fits into education, psychology, cultural studies, technology, and the arts.
A unique American Sign Language (ASL) dictionary that is organized by handshape rather than by alphabetical order.
More than 3,000 illustrations arrayed in this volume display the most useful selection of signs to be found in any single ASL reference resource.
The Joy of Signing is one of the most comprehensive guides available for mastering the current basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or in the ASL pattern.
More than 2,500 of the most widely used words, phrases, and idioms in the language.
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