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Understanding signed languages / Erin Wilkinson and Jill P. Morford.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Understanding language seriesPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024Description: xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781032164083
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Understanding signed languagesDDC classification:
  • 419 W659s  23/eng/20231115
LOC classification:
  • P117 .W55 2024
Contents:
Introduction to signed languages -- Signed language communities -- Phonetics and phonology in signed languages -- Packaging meaning in signs and constructions in signed languages -- Signed language discourse -- Signs of changes -- Language acquisition in the visual modality -- Deaf communities are multilingual communities.
Summary: "Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world. Readers will learn about language through a unique set of signed language studies that will surprise them with the diversity of ways human languages achieve the same functional goals of communication"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to signed languages -- Signed language communities -- Phonetics and phonology in signed languages -- Packaging meaning in signs and constructions in signed languages -- Signed language discourse -- Signs of changes -- Language acquisition in the visual modality -- Deaf communities are multilingual communities.

"Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world. Readers will learn about language through a unique set of signed language studies that will surprise them with the diversity of ways human languages achieve the same functional goals of communication"-- Provided by publisher.

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