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Sign languages in village communities. Anthropological and linguistic insights
The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These sign languages represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality, and the book is the first compilation of a substantial number of different village sign languages.Written by leading ex…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781614511496
- Collation
- 420 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Title
- Sign Language Typology [SLT]; Vol. 4
- Call Number
- 419.94 SIG s
The Use of signing space in a shared sign language of Australia
In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the manifestation of signing space - the articulatory space surrounding the signers - f…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781614515470
- Collation
- 303 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Title
- Sign Language Typology [SLT] ; Vol. 5
- Call Number
- 419.94 BAU u
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