Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication

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

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Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims?

Everyone is talking about signing with young children.

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals.

At a very young age, children are like sponges, absorbing everything they see and do, learning at an unprecedented rate.

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

A study of religious silence and sign language in an early medieval abbey.

Communicate with your baby with more than 200 ASL signs!

The simple way to start learning American Sign LanguageThis foundational workbook makes it easy to get started with American Sign Language.

The relationship of language to cognition, especially in development, is an issue that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for centuries.

Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth.

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

As sign language linguistics has become an important and prodigious field of research in the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that the repertoire of methodological approaches to the study of the communication of the Deaf has also expanded considerably.

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

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language.

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.

Natural human communication is multimodal.

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child's communicative skills in comparison to others.

In Reading Between the Signs, Anna Mindess provides a perspective on a culture that is not widely understood - American Deaf culture.

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.

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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.

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

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

“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).

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

Teach your baby how to communicate without words.

Open up a whole new world of communication through ASLYou can easily learn ASL with help from The American Sign Language Phrase Book.

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.

Knowing Hands analyzes the cognitive psychology of manual control.

As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.

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.

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A truly comprehensive survey of bilingualism, examining the learning, use, and unlearning of two or more languages across the lifespan.

One of the foremost authorities on the use of sign language with hearing children provides a guide for teachers and parents who want to introduce signing in hearing children's language development.

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The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world.

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.

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.