David F Armstrong: 2 books

Book cover of Show of Hands

Show of Hands

A Natural History of Sign Language

by David F. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011

Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong’s new book Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign Language casts...
Book cover of The Gestural Origin of Language
by David F. Armstrong, Sherman E. Wilcox
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007

In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today. According to their model, it is sign, not spoken languages, that is the original mode of human communication. The authors demonstrate...
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