Language in hand : why sign came before speech /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stokoe, William C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Sign language > History.
American Sign Language > History.
Langage par signes > Histoire.
American Sign Language > Histoire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
American Sign Language
Sign language
Taalgenese.
Gebarentaal.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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