This book provides a study of the communication and culture of deaf people, particularly among a community of the deaf in Britain. The authors' goal is to inform educators, psychologists, linguists, and professionals working with deaf people about the rich language the deaf have developed for themselves--a language of movement and space, of the hands and the eyes, of abstract communication as well as iconic story-telling. Early chapters discuss the history of sign language use, its social aspects and the issues surrounding the language acquisition of deaf children. The book's core examines the linguistic and psychological study of British Sign Language and compares and contrasts it with other signed languages. The book concludes with an examination of the applications of sign language research, particularly to education.
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"...a major contribution to the literature on the social psychology of deafness and the linguistic bases of BSL and will be of definite interest to students of language and to anyone working with deaf people. As most of the findings it reports were unknown just 10 years ago, it is an impressive achievement." Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
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Designed to inform educators, psychologists, linguists, and professionals working with deaf people about the rich language the deaf have developed for themselves. Provides a broad framework on which researchers and professionals who work with the deaf can build.
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British Sign Language is a language of movement and space, of the hands and of the eyes, of abstract communication as well as iconic story-telling, but most important of all, it is the language of the deaf community in the UK. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spoken language interpreting, slow reduplication, deaf tutors, deaf social club, sign language learning, sign language grammar, palm towards body, different sign languages, sign language research, fingerspelled words, young deaf people, deaf club, sign language interpreting, other deaf people, same handshape, deaf children, cued speech, spoken language development, loan signs, deaf community, child language research, simultaneous interpreting, hearing society, other sign languages, overt rehearsal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Total Communication, French Sign Language, Signed Swedish, Avon Study, British Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language, Van Uden, Deafness Researchers, Signing Exact English, American Indian, Education Act, Jean Campbell New!
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British Sign Language is a language of movement and space, of the hands and of the eyes, of abstract communication as well as iconic story-telling, but most important of all, it is the language of the deaf community in the UK. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spoken language interpreting, slow reduplication, deaf tutors, deaf social club, sign language learning, sign language grammar, palm towards body, different sign languages, sign language research, fingerspelled words, young deaf people, deaf club, sign language interpreting, other deaf people, same handshape, deaf children, cued speech, spoken language development, loan signs, deaf community, child language research, simultaneous interpreting, hearing society, other sign languages, overt rehearsal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Total Communication, French Sign Language, Signed Swedish, Avon Study, British Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language, Van Uden, Deafness Researchers, Signing Exact English, American Indian, Education Act, Jean Campbell New!
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- Signing Exact English: Pocket Edition by Gerilee Gustason on 4 pages
- British Sign Language (Language, Education, and Society) by M. Deuchar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Studies in Neurolinguistics. Volume 4 (v. 4) by Haiganoosh Whitaker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sign Language by Amy Hill in Back Matter
- Cognitive Psychology (Longman Essential Psychology Series) by Christopher C. French in Back Matter
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- Sign Language and Linguistic Universals by Wendy Sandler in Back Matter
- Communication Skills in Hearing-Impaired Children by John Bench in Back Matter
- The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages by Ceil Lucas in Back Matter
- The Study of Language by George Yule in Back Matter
- Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics by Trevor Johnston in Back Matter
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