Sign Language category: 113 books

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Signing

How To Speak With Your Hands

by Elaine Costello, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009

American Sign Language is a wonderful silent language of hands, face, and body that is rich with nuance, emotion, and grace. Bantam is proud to present the newly revised Signing : How To Speak With Your Hands, a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide that has long been the invaluable and definitive guide...
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Gesture

Visible Action as Utterance

by Adam Kendon
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004

Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this 2004 study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the...
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Here or There

Research on Interpreting via Video Link

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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

The field of sign language interpreting is undergoing an exponential increase in the delivery of services through remote and video technologies. The nature of these technologies challenges established notions of interpreting as a situated, communicative event and of the interpreter as a participant....
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Deaf Space in Adamorobe

An Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana

by Annelies Kusters
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation. In the United States, Martha’s Vineyard gained mythical fame as a paradise for deaf people where everyone signed up until the 19th century. That community...
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by Ilya Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and...
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by Chris DiPaolo
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013

One of the most important things to learn in ASL is the American Manual Alphabet -  otherwise known as Fingerspelling. Fingerspelling allows you to  spell out words in American Sign Language. There are many times when you will use fingerspelling in ASL.  It is actually used...
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Deaf in DC

A Memoir

by Madan Vasishta
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010

In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where “deaf” meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his acceptance at Gallaudet College far away in America....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

This collection contributes to an emerging body of research in sign language interpreter education, a field in which research on teaching practices has been rare. The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education investigates learning experiences and teaching practices that provide the evidence...
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Laurent Clerc

The Story of His Early Years

by Cathryn Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Laurent Clerc won lasting renown as the deaf teacher who helped Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet establish schools to educate deaf Americans in the 19th century. Now, his character as a young boy growing up in Paris has been captured in the novel Laurent Clerc. In his own voice, Clerc vividly relates...
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Language, Corpus and Empowerment

Applications to deaf education, healthcare and online discourses

by Luke Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015

Language, Corpus and Empowerment applies a novel corpus-driven approach to the exploration of the concept of empowerment in healthcare. The book proposes an innovative corpus-based methodology for finding evidence of empowerment in language use, using data from a video intervention delivered to families...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014

Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language. However, comparatively little research has focused on communication disorders in signed language users. For some deaf children, atypicality is...
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by Jules Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017

The last forty years have seen a dramatic change in the nature of work, with deaf people increasingly moving into white collar or office-based professions. The rise of deaf professionals has led to employment opportunities for signed language interpreters across a variety of workplace settings, creating...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.
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The Impulse to Gesture

Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

by Simon Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018

Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues...
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