Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication

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How different are sign languages across the world?

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

The use of sign language has a long history.

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

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

This book focuses on two means of recruiting sign language to support DHH students in mainstream education in Asia.

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

This volume is the long-awaited revision of the only textbook on primary language instruction written with classroom teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children (TODs) in mind.

Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them.

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

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

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.

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

To find a suitable framework for the description of a previously undocumented language is all the more challenging in the case of a signed language.

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.

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

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

Paul Nater ist einer der führenden Blinden- und Sehbehindertenpädagogen Deutschlands.

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.

Do you find it hard to make friends?

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

Natural human communication is multimodal.

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

Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages.

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An interdisciplinary guide to traditional as well as cutting-edge methods for the study of language attitudes.

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

Language from the Body deals with iconicity and metaphor in American sign language.

Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.

Historically, research on spoken language testing dates back to the late 1920s with the majority of work starting around the time of World War II.

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

This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue.

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.

Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them.