Jim G. Kyle, B. Woll

Sign Language

The Study of Deaf People and Their Language

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a study of the communication and culture of deaf people, and particularly of the deaf community in Britain. The authors' principle aim is to inform educators, psychologist, linguists and professionals working with deaf people about the rich language the deaf have developed for themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521357173
• ISBN-10: 0521357179
• Artikelnr.: 21870296

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The deaf community
2. British Sign Language
3. Historical aspects of BSL
4. Sign language acquisition
5. The building blocks of sign language
6. The structure of signs
7. Sign morphology and syntax: the grammar of BSL
8. Comparing sign languages
9. Learning and using BSL
10. The psychology of sign
11. Sign language interpreting
12. Sign language in schools
13. Which sign language?
14. Developments for sign language
Appendix
References
Subject index
Index of signs in the text
Index of names in the text.