Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication

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.

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.

Natural human communication is multimodal.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Conventional gestures are those movements we make, such as waving hello and shaking hands, that are part of a learned, shared, symbolic system.

In addition to the hands, sign languages make extensive use of nonmanual articulators such as the body, head, and face to convey linguistic information.

Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice.

It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on sign languages, leading to less structural variation in sign language structure as compared to spoken language structure.

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

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

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

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.

Situé à la frontière de l'anthropologie et de l'histoire, cet ouvrage parle d'une réalité ethnographique encore trop peu étudiée par les anthropologues, celle de la culture sourde.

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.

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

Phonetics and Phonology, Volume 3: Current Issues in ASL Phonology deals with theoretical issues in the phonology of ASL (American Sign Language), the signed language of the American Deaf.

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

Do you find it hard to make friends?

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

How different are sign languages across the world?

The first popular examination of language on the Internet by a leading authority.

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

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

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.

From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented by the work of Fishman.

Manual signs are used worldwide to support the communication and language development of children who have developmental disabilities.

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

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.