Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication

Introducing Sign Language Literature: Folklore and Creativity is the first textbook dedicated to analyzing and appreciating sign language storytelling, poetry and humour.

This thematic and geographic overview examines more than forty sign languages from around the world.

Stefan Schreiboeck explores the role and the importance of multimodality to communication in a social and societal context.

Sign languages are non-written languages.

This grammar of Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) phonology adds to a sparse literature on the units of categorical form in the world's sign languages.

The first comprehensive introduction to Auslan, exploring key aspects of its structure and use.

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

Quick and easy phrases in ASL for daily lifePerfect Phrases for American Sign Language provides 150 essential phrases for hearing-impaired users of ASL and those who interact with them.

Knowing Hands analyzes the cognitive psychology of manual control.

Barron's American Sign Language is a brand-new title on ASL that can be used in the classroom, as a supplemental text to high school and college courses, or for anyone who wants to learn proper ASL.

This first linguistic study of British Sign Language is written for students of linguistics, for deaf and hearing sign language researchers, for teachers and social workers for the deaf.

In many sign languages around the world, some verbs express grammatical agreement, while many others do not.

This is the first comprehensive account of prolonged hearing loss and its impact on a language that was once spoken fluently.

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

This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels.

This thematic and geographic overview examines more than forty sign languages from around the world.

This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe.

Using a unified methodological and theoretical framework, this book compares interpersonal grammar systems across different languages.

Person and number are two basic grammatical categories.

Presents a ''process relation framework'' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for cases of non-finiteness in clause structure.

Research Methods in Sign Language Studies is a landmark work on sign language research, which spans the fields of linguistics, experimental and developmental psychology, brain research, and language assessment.

Applying the framework of the Prosodic Model to naturalistic data, this book presents a systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL).

This first comprehensive study of linguistic templatic constructions in morphology and syntax employs cutting-edge computational methods to study templates typologically.

This first linguistic study of British Sign Language is written for students of linguistics, for deaf and hearing sign language researchers, for teachers and social workers for the deaf.

Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it.

Communication is essential for all forms of social interaction, from parental care to mate choice and cooperation.

Combining the expertise of renowned academics and aviation experts, this edited collection draws together the latest research into language in the aviation industry, with a focus on teaching and assessment.

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In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L.

The first reference book written for the sight-impaired student and those who serve their needs, A Field Guide for the Sight-Impaired Reader explains how to locate, obtain, and integrate all forms of aid to construct a world of reading equal to that of the fully sighted reader.

The use of sign language has a long history.

This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf woman's autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing societies relate to Deaf people.

This first comprehensive study of linguistic templatic constructions in morphology and syntax employs cutting-edge computational methods to study templates typologically.

Johannes Stroux (1886–1954) gelangte als erster regulärer Rektor der Berliner Universität Unter den Linden (nachmals Humboldt-Universität) nach ihrer Wiedereröffnung 1946 sowie als erster Präsident der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu einer exponierten Stellung in der Berliner Wissenschaftspolitik der Nachkriegsjahre.

This book explores how new technologies have the potential to revolutionise the documentation, analysis and revitalisation of endangered languages.

Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective.

This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf woman's autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing societies relate to Deaf people.

Research Methods in Sign Language Studies is a landmark work on sign language research, which spans the fields of linguistics, experimental and developmental psychology, brain research, and language assessment.

Explores similarities and differences between spoken and signed languages, challenging notions of what constitutes ''language''.

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