Language in hand : why sign came before speech /
"Stokoe recounts in Language in Hand how inspiration grew out of his original discovery in the 1950s and '60s that deaf people who signed were using a true language with constructions that did not derive from spoken English. This investigation calls upon decades of personal experience and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Gallaudet University Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. An idea that would not go away
- 2. Chasing the language butterfly
- 3. Gesture to language to speech
- 4. Signed languages and language essentials
- 5. Language signs
- 6. Descartes thought wrong
- 7. Language metamorphosis
- 8. Language in a chrysalis
- 9. Emerging from the cocoon
- 10. Families of signed languages
- 11. Languages in parallel
- 12. Visible verbs become spoken
- 13. A difference that makes a difference.