Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.

This book explores metonymy in language, gesture, music, art and film, and discusses the challenges it presents in cross-cultural communication.

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Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language, with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world.

The use of sign language has a long history.

Questions About Language sets out to answer, in a readable yet insightful format, a series of vital questions about language, some of which language specialists are regularly asked, and some of which are so surprising that only the specialists think about them.

In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L.

Everyone is talking about signing with young children.

Volume II of the handbook offers a unique collection of exemplary case studies.

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field.

The first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess.

Language development, and the challenges it can present for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, have long been a focus of research, theory, and practice in D/deaf studies and deaf education.

Get your message across using your hands and your body language Want to communicate with the Deaf community but are mystified how to start?

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy.

Nearly half a century has passed since Hymes proposed the concept of communicative competence to describe the knowledge and skills required for the appropriate use of language in a social context.

Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities.

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With contributions from world-renowned researchers, this book delves into how to best describe the phenomena of mass-count distinction.

The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it requires the combination of morphological, semantic and pragmatic information to be understood.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.

Learn British Sign Language quickly and easily with this essential guide and CD-Rom This lively guide introduces the key hand shapes and gestures you need to communicate in British Sign Language.

Este libro se distingue no sólo por conjuntar el trabajo de investigadores que, desde sus distintas disciplinas, han discutido la atención a los sordos usuarios de la Lengua de Señas Mexicana (LSM) sino también por contar con la colaboración de los miembros de esta comunidad.

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

Questions About Language sets out to answer, in a readable yet insightful format, a series of vital questions about language, some of which language specialists are regularly asked, and some of which are so surprising that only the specialists think about them.

An insightful study of how a savant with severe disabilities but a remarkable linguistic talent has learnt British Sign Language.

This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences.

Signed languages are the visual-gestural languages of deaf communities.

This is the first British textbook dealing solely with sign linguistics.

This book explores metonymy in language, gesture, music, art and film, and discusses the challenges it presents in cross-cultural communication.

“An inspirational and helpful resource for parents to help them learn how to foster early communication with their children through baby sign language” (Sabrina Freidenfelds, MPH, IBCLC, founder of Then Comes Baby).

This book examines conference-level simultaneous interpreting from a signed language into a spoken language, drawing on Auslan (Australian Sign Language)-to-English simultaneous interpretation data to explore the skills, knowledge, strategies, and cognitive abilities needed for effective interpretations in this language direction.

In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published.

Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities.

In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published.

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching.

This book introduces a new topic to applied linguistics: the significance of the TESOL teacher's background as a learner and user of additional languages.