Deaf in America

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674283171
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Deaf in America by : Carol A. Padden

Download or read book Deaf in America written by Carol A. Padden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language—American Sign Language (ASL—and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations. Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people’s cultural views, has had tragic consequences for the education of deaf children; generations of children have attended schools in which they were forbidden to use a signed language. For Deaf people, as Padden and Humphries make clear, their signed language is life-giving, and is at the center of a rich cultural heritage. The tension between Deaf people’s views of themselves and the way the hearing world views them finds its way into their stories, which include tales about their origins and the characteristics they consider necessary for their existence and survival. Deaf in America includes folktales, accounts of old home movies, jokes, reminiscences, and translations of signed poems and modern signed performances. The authors introduce new material that has never before been published and also offer translations that capture as closely as possible the richness of the original material in ASL. Deaf in America will be of great interest to those interested in culture and language as well as to Deaf people and those who work with deaf children and Deaf people.

The Politics of Deafness

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Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563680649
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Deafness by : Owen Wrigley

Download or read book The Politics of Deafness written by Owen Wrigley and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's ability to understand and interpret spoken communication.

Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People

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Total Pages : 456 pages
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Book Synopsis Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People by : Edward L. Scouten

Download or read book Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People written by Edward L. Scouten and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sign and Culture

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Publisher : Linstok Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Sign and Culture by : William C. Stokoe

Download or read book Sign and Culture written by William C. Stokoe and published by Linstok Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of papers that have appeared in the journal "Sign Language Studies" between 1972 and 1979. The aim is to provide the reader with some knowledge of the world as signers see it. The book is for academic decision-makers, teachers and parents of deaf students, as well as the intellectually curious. Following an introductory essay, the chapters are arranged in four sections: (1) The first section addresses the broad question "What is Sign Language?" with articles about the language merging situation involving manually encoded English and American Sign Language, as well as other aspects of sign language, including humor and foreign sign languages. (2) The second section on "Learning and Using Sign Language" gets deeply into a psycholinguistic vein, and presents findings on sign language acquisition and learning. (3) The third section, "(Sign) Language and Culture," relates sign language use and particular attitudes and policies to the deaf community. (4) The fourth chapter reinforces the idea that language is not all biological nor all socio-cultural, and applies this idea to sign language acquisition. (Author/PJM)

Peasant and French

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467704
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Book Synopsis Peasant and French by : James R. Lehning

Download or read book Peasant and French written by James R. Lehning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.

Sign Language Research, Uses and Practices

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Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 : 9781614511991
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Sign Language Research, Uses and Practices by : Laurence Meurant

Download or read book Sign Language Research, Uses and Practices written by Laurence Meurant and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably. Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference grammars, theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied studies on sign languages and Deaf communities. The SLDC series is concerned with the study of sign languages in a comprehensive way, covering various theoretical, experimental, and applied dimensions of sign language research and their relationship to Deaf communities around the world. The series provides a multidisciplinary platform for innovative and outstanding research in sign language linguistics and aims at linking the study of sign languages to current trends in modern linguistics, such as new experimental and theoretical investigations, the importance of language endangerment, the impact of technological developments on data collection and Deaf education, and the broadening geographical scope of typological sign language studies, especially in terms of research on non-Western sign languages and Deaf communities.

Iconicity in Language

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027285705
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Iconicity in Language by : Raffaele Simone

Download or read book Iconicity in Language written by Raffaele Simone and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-02-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism, naturalism, etc.) takes this position, which differentiates it very clearly from generative linguistics. One of the basic assumptions of such approaches is that language structure includes some non-arbitrary aspects, from the phonological through the textual level, and a great amount of research has occurred in the last decade regarding the “iconic aspects” of language(s). This volume focuses on generally neglected dimensions of language and semiotic activity, featuring contributions by philosophers, linguists, semioticians, and psychologists. After tracing the tradition of iconicity in the history of linguistic thought, the central section is devoted to specific analyses emphasizing the role of non-arbitrary phenomena in language foundation and linguistic structure. Specifically discussed are numeration systems, the gestural systems of communication among deaf people, the genesis of writing in children, and inter-ethnic communication.

Language, Gesture, and Space

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134779739
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Language, Gesture, and Space by : Karen Emmorey

Download or read book Language, Gesture, and Space written by Karen Emmorey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other gestural systems, and how they exploit the space in which they are conveyed. The chapters focus on five pertinent areas reflecting different, but related research topics: * space in language and gesture, * point of view and referential shift, * morphosyntax of verbs in ASL, * gestural systems and sign language, and * language acquisition and gesture. Sign languages and gestural systems are produced in physical space; they manipulate spatial contrasts for linguistic and communicative purposes. In addition to exploring the different functions of space, researchers discuss similarities and differences between visual-gestural systems -- established sign languages, pidgin sign language (International Sign), "homesign" systems developed by deaf children with no sign language input, novel gesture systems invented by hearing nonsigners, and the gesticulation that accompanies speech. The development of gesture and sign language in children is also examined in both hearing and deaf children, charting the emergence of gesture ("manual babbling"), its use as a prelinguistic communicative device, and its transformation into language-like systems in homesigners. Finally, theoretical linguistic accounts of the structure of sign languages are provided in chapters dealing with the analysis of referential shift, the structure of narrative, the analysis of tense and the structure of the verb phrase in American Sign Language. Taken together, the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive picture of sign language and gesture research from a group of international scholars who investigate a range of communicative systems from formal sign languages to the gesticulation that accompanies speech.

Space in Languages

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293554
Total Pages : 373 pages
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Book Synopsis Space in Languages by : Maya Hickmann

Download or read book Space in Languages written by Maya Hickmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the collective aim of addressing fundamental questions at the forefront of the current literature: the nature of space in language, the linguistic relativity of space, the relation between spatial language and cognition. Linguistic analyses highlight the multidimensional and heterogeneous nature of space, while also showing the existence of a set of types, parameters, and principles organizing the considerable diversity of linguistic systems and accounting for mechanisms of diachronic change. Findings concerning spatial perception and cognition suggest the existence of two distinct systems governing linguistic and non-linguistic representations, that only partially overlap in some pathologies, but they also show the strong impact of language-specific factors on the course of language acquisition and cognitive development.

Simultaneity in Signed Languages

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027247964
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Book Synopsis Simultaneity in Signed Languages by : Myriam Vermeerbergen

Download or read book Simultaneity in Signed Languages written by Myriam Vermeerbergen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information simultaneously. Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in the issue of simultaneity in signed languages. However, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive treatment of this topic, presenting a collection of papers dealing with different aspects of simultaneity in a range of related and unrelated signed languages, in descriptive and cross-linguistic treatments which are set in different theoretical frameworks. This volume has relevance for those interested in sign linguistics, in teaching and learning signed languages, and is also highly recommended to anyone interested in the fundamental underpinnings of human language and the effects of signed versus spoken modality.

Sign Language Acquisition

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728959X
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Book Synopsis Sign Language Acquisition by : Anne Baker

Download or read book Sign Language Acquisition written by Anne Baker and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in this area it is important to use the right methodological tools. The contributions to this volume address issues covering the basics of doing sign acquisition research, the use of assessment tools, problems of transcription, analyzing narratives and carrying out interaction studies. It serves as an ideal reference source for any researcher or student of sign languages who is planning to do such work. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005)

Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265321
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Book Synopsis Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition by : Maya Hickmann

Download or read book Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition written by Maya Hickmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of variation: language-specific properties, the nature of the input to children across contexts, and several aspects of the learners themselves. Chapters explore these sources of variation within an interdisciplinary and comparative approach allying theories and methodologies stemming from linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. The comparative perspective involves different languages, contexts of use, types of learners (first/second language acquisition, monolingual/bilingual learners, autism, language impairment), as well as vocal and visuo-gestural communicative modalities (co-verbal gestures, sign language acquisition). The volume points to the need to enhance interdisciplinary research using complementary methodologies to further examine sources of variation and to integrate variation into a more general developmental theory.

Space in Danish Sign Language

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Book Synopsis Space in Danish Sign Language by : Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

Download or read book Space in Danish Sign Language written by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantics and Morphosyntax of the Use of Space in a Visual Language

Nonmanuals in Sign Language

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271747
Total Pages : 205 pages
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Book Synopsis Nonmanuals in Sign Language by : Annika Herrmann

Download or read book Nonmanuals in Sign Language written by Annika Herrmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the hands, sign languages make extensive use of nonmanual articulators such as the body, head, and face to convey linguistic information. This collected volume focuses on the forms and functions of nonmanuals in sign languages. The articles discuss various aspects of specific nonmanual markers in different sign languages and enhance the fact that nonmanuals are an essential part of sign language grammar. Approaching the topic from empirical, theoretical, and computational perspectives, the book is of special interest to sign language researchers, typologists, and theoretical as well as computational linguists that are curious about language and modality. The articles investigate phenomena such as mouth gestures, agreement, negation, topicalization, and semantic operators, and discuss general topics such as language and modality, simultaneity, computer animation, and the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and prosody.Originally published in Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 (2011)

Les surdités de l'enfant

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Publisher : Elsevier Masson
ISBN 13 : 9782294707490
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Les surdités de l'enfant by : Michel Mondain

Download or read book Les surdités de l'enfant written by Michel Mondain and published by Elsevier Masson. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage s'intéresse à la communication de l'enfant avec un déficit d'audition. Dans un premier temps, il explique comment diagnostiquer une surdité chez un enfant, puis comment mener le bilan étiologique pour une meilleure prise en charge. Sont également abordés, les méthodes de communications alternatives en cas de surdités ainsi que les différentes méthodes de réhabilitation de l'audition avec une évaluation de l'intérêt et des limites de ces méthodes. Concernant le dépistage néonatal de la surdité, ce livre évoque l'acceptabilité et les problèmes éthiques liés à cette détection ainsi que l'intérêt et les filières d'une telle prise en charge. Enfin, les rôles des différents intervenants dans ces réseaux et, plus spécifiquement le rôle de l'orthophoniste, sont développés. -- Résumé de l'éditeur.