This is the first textbook dealing specifically with British sign linguistics. It provides essential support for learners of British Sign Language and others interested in the structure and use of BSL, and assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics and sign language. Technical terms and linguistic jargon are kept to a minimum. The book contains over three hundred illustrations and an index of signs and sign phrases. There are also exercises and a reading list for further independent study.
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This is the first textbook dealing specifically with British sign linguistics. It provides essential support for learners of British Sign Language and others interested in the structure and use of BSL, and assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics and sign language. Technical terms and linguistic jargon are kept to a minimum. The book contains over three hundred illustrations and an index of signs and sign phrases. There are also exercises and a reading list for further independent study.
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Brilliant, for bsl learners/users/teachers or people with an interest in linguistics,
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This review is from: The Linguistics of British Sign Language: An Introduction (Paperback)
This book formed the basis of one of my Linguistics modules at University, the structure of BSL. It was easy to read and informative; it has pictures of sign in-use and explains linguistic concepts in basic terms so that people without linguistics degrees would be able understand it and get a lot out of it.When I started the course I had hardly any knowledge of BSL, I am now studying my level 2. This book gave me a very good idea of the grammatical scaffolding of BSL, onto which, I now just need to build my vocab. My only problem with the book is that there isn't a sequel.
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Linguistics tries to find out the rules that explain what language user know, so that we can understand how language works. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
visually motivated signs, personal name signs, spatial verbs, spoken components, letter handshape, sign language research, older deaf people, syntactic space, topographic space, visual motivation, sign linguists, plain verbs, sign glossed, productive lexicon, different handshapes, mouth patterns, simultaneous signs, signing space, classifier handshape, same handshape, taboo signs, pronoun copy, simultaneous signing, other sign languages, established lexicon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Red Riding Hood, British Sign Language, Signum Press, Irish Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language, Academic Press, Dot Miles, Danish Sign Language, International Sign, Mary Brennan, Cambridge University Press, Carol Padden, Croom Helm, Harvard University Press, New York, Paget-Gorman Sign System, Sign Language Studies, French Sign Language, Groom Helm, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Linstok Press, San Diego, Silver Spring, The Hague New!
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Linguistics tries to find out the rules that explain what language user know, so that we can understand how language works. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
visually motivated signs, personal name signs, spatial verbs, spoken components, letter handshape, sign language research, older deaf people, syntactic space, topographic space, visual motivation, sign linguists, plain verbs, sign glossed, productive lexicon, different handshapes, mouth patterns, simultaneous signs, signing space, classifier handshape, same handshape, taboo signs, pronoun copy, simultaneous signing, other sign languages, established lexicon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Red Riding Hood, British Sign Language, Signum Press, Irish Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language, Academic Press, Dot Miles, Danish Sign Language, International Sign, Mary Brennan, Cambridge University Press, Carol Padden, Croom Helm, Harvard University Press, New York, Paget-Gorman Sign System, Sign Language Studies, French Sign Language, Groom Helm, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Linstok Press, San Diego, Silver Spring, The Hague New!
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- British Sign Language (Language, Education, and Society) by M. Deuchar on 5 pages
- British Sign Language by Dorothy Miles on page 40, and Back Matter
- Body of Evidence: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries) by Patricia Cornwell in Front Matter, and page 126
- The Great Fire of London (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Samuel Pepys on page 35
- American Sign Language Syntax (Approaches to Semiotics) by Scott K. Liddell in Back Matter
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- Developmental Psychology and You by Julia C. Berryman on page 107
- Let's Sign Pocket Dictionary by Cath Smith on page 378
- Gesture and Sign Languages in Human-Computer Interaction by Ipke Wachsmuth on page 196
- Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics by Trevor Johnston in Back Matter
- Arguments and Agreement (Oxford Linguistics) by Peter Ackema in Back Matter
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