Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication

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.

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language.

Person and number are two basic grammatical categories.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of sign language translation and interpretation from around the globe and looks ahead to future directions of research.

American Sign Language is more than just an assortment of gestures.

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.

First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin's 65th birthday in 1988.

Sign languages are non-written languages.

"e;I love you.

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

This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved.

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

Bringing together twenty-five years of research, Why We Gesture offers a radical new perspective on gesture-speech unity.

Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural 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.

One of many natural sign languages in use around the world, British Sign Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the visual-spatial modality, through the simultaneous use of embodied articulators.

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

In Sign Language Interpreting (SLI) there is a great need for a volume devoted to classic and seminal articles and essays dedicated to this specific domain of language interpreting.

This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics.

When a child who has special problems is born, Carrie Gruman-Trinkner insists that this little one is a wonderful gift from God-not in spite of those problems and differences, but because of them.

It's the most fun you can have while learning to sign!

Signing babies are taking over, asking for more milk and later nap times.

The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research bridges the divide between theoretical and experimental approaches to provide an up-to-date survey of key topics in sign language research.

Discover the intricacies of American Sign Language with this comprehensive, essential guide to learning the basics of sign language.

Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages.

The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research bridges the divide between theoretical and experimental approaches to provide an up-to-date survey of key topics in sign language research.

One of many natural sign languages in use around the world, British Sign Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the visual-spatial modality, through the simultaneous use of embodied articulators.

Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys.

The Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Pedagogy is the first reference of its kind, presenting contributions from leading experts in the field of sign language pedagogy.

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

Der vorliegende Sammelband verfolgt das Ziel, aktuelle Arbeiten und Forschungsergebnisse der Sondersprachenforschung mit "arkanlinguistischem" Bezug zusammenzuführen, sie kritisch zu diskutieren und zu hinterfragen und durch diese Bündelung explizit auch eine Linguistik des Arkanen zu konturieren.

How different are sign languages across the world?

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together.

First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin's 65th birthday in 1988.