Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Kearsy Cormier, Trevor Johnston
Sari: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107077140)
Bringing together the linguistics of both BSL and ASL for the first time, this textbook provides a uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of signed languages. With photographs and videos of over 150 signs, end o...Loe edasi...
Bringing together the linguistics of both BSL and ASL for the first time, this textbook provides a uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of signed languages. With photographs and videos of over 150 signs, end o...Loe edasi...
First published in 1976, Subject and Topic presents research from the 1975 University of California, Santa Barbara symposium that sought to achieve thorough understanding of two important grammatical concepts: subject and topic....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009646710)
Speakers gesturally indicate and depict with their arms and hands as they speak, but it appears that signers cannot do this because their arms and hands are occupied with articulating signs. This book demonstrates that signers do indicate and depict...Loe edasi...
Based on the Second International Symposium of Sign Language Research of 1981, Language in Sign explores the growing recognition of sign language as a systematic and complex form of communication. Originally published in 1983 and now featur...Loe edasi...
Discover the fascinating history and current use of Black American Sign Language, then bring it to life with your hands following photo-illustrated instruction.Deaf history has been told primarily from a white-centered lens, pushing Bl...Loe edasi...
Master American Sign Language (ASL) with this updated edition of the best-selling guide featuring thousands of photographs of signing Deaf actors. ASL is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million...Loe edasi...
This textbook offers a clear and accessible introduction to educational interpreting, focusing on the unique demands of working with deaf students in public school settings. Most interpreters begin their careers in these environments, often withou...Loe edasi...
This textbook offers a clear and accessible introduction to educational interpreting, focusing on the unique demands of working with deaf students in public school settings. Most interpreters begin their careers in these environments, often withou...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin’s 65th birthday in 1988. It reflects her very special interdisciplinary interests and flair....Loe edasi...
This book describes two ways of incorporating sign language in mainstream education, reflecting direct and indirect communication between and among the participants, teachers and students alike. The focus is on how deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) s...Loe edasi...
This timely and thought-provoking volume is an important contribution to Deaf Studies. The contributors, most of them Deaf, critically examine Deaf culture, Deaf arts and music, the oppressive forces faced by Deaf people, the diversity within the Dea...Loe edasi...
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic...Loe edasi...
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic grammatical...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of Sign Language Translation and Interpretation from around the globe and looks ahead to future directions of research. This is the essential guide for advanced students and researchers of Tr...Loe edasi...
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Gestures are those actions made with the human body that accompany spoken or signed language; they are found in every human community that has language, bu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192855077)
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Gestures are those actions made with the human body that accompany spoken or signed language; they are found in every human community that has language, bu...Loe edasi...
As a gateway to central questions in linguistics, non-finiteness is unavoidable in both typological studies and aspects of natural language processing, such as text segmentation and annotation. This study presents a process relation framework to ex...Loe edasi...
Start learning American Sign Language (ASL) with this guide to the most essential everyday ASL phrases and words.If you are a parent looking for an accessible guide to ASL basics for your hearing child, then look no further than Poc...Loe edasi...
In this monograph, multiscriptal English is theorised. Unorthodox and unconventional this may sound, a salient sociolinguistic reality is emerging globally. That is, while standardised English (Roman script) is routinely taught and used, English in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009490061)
This Element theorizes multiscriptal English, a trend where English adopts local scripts in multilingual and (post)colonial societies. English blends into local languages through transliteration, gaining new forms and meanings. This shows Englishs r...Loe edasi...
This edited collection draws together the latest research into language in the aviation industry, with a focus on teaching and assessment. Providing highly valuable research-based recommendations, it investigates current practices and challenges and...Loe edasi...
Seeing Voices explores the phenomenon of music created in a signed language and argues that music can exist beyond sound and the sense of hearing, instead involving all of our senses, including vision and touch. Using a blend of tools from m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111557519)
This book explores a type of bilingual acquisition – early sequential bimodal bilingual acquisition – in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and oral Cantonese, by adopting data from a deaf child who acquired HKSL from birth and Cantonese from...Loe edasi...
Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Kearsy Cormier, Trevor Johnston
Sari: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107077140)
Bringing together the linguistics of both BSL and ASL for the first time, this textbook provides a uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of signed languages. With photographs and videos of over 150 signs, end o...Loe edasi...
Bringing together the linguistics of both BSL and ASL for the first time, this textbook provides a uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of signed languages. With photographs and videos of over 150 signs, end o...Loe edasi...
First published in 1976, Subject and Topic presents research from the 1975 University of California, Santa Barbara symposium that sought to achieve thorough understanding of two important grammatical concepts: subject and topic....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009646710)
Speakers gesturally indicate and depict with their arms and hands as they speak, but it appears that signers cannot do this because their arms and hands are occupied with articulating signs. This book demonstrates that signers do indicate and depict...Loe edasi...
Based on the Second International Symposium of Sign Language Research of 1981, Language in Sign explores the growing recognition of sign language as a systematic and complex form of communication. Originally published in 1983 and now featur...Loe edasi...
Discover the fascinating history and current use of Black American Sign Language, then bring it to life with your hands following photo-illustrated instruction.Deaf history has been told primarily from a white-centered lens, pushing Bl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Institution of Engineering and Technology, ISBN-13: 9781837241422)
Sign languages differ fundamentally from spoken and written languages, with their own grammar, syntax, and three-dimensional expression involving hand gestures, facial expressions, body movements, and spatial relationships. These non-manual elemen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111397429)
Very few countries have an official sign language curriculum for the teaching and learning of signed languages as first/maternal (L1) and/or second (L2) languages. The book discusses its status and visibility of public education policies, consolid...Loe edasi...
Zack loves minibeasts. Join him and his Grandad as they explore the garden looking for lots of creepy-crawlies. Story includes signs for minibeasts and prepositions....Loe edasi...
Master American Sign Language (ASL) with this updated edition of the best-selling guide featuring thousands of photographs of signing Deaf actors. ASL is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million...Loe edasi...
Written by three veteran interpreters with deep roots in the Deaf community and the performing arts, Sign Language Interpreting for Theatre is the first of its kind: a comprehensive guide to the art of sign language interpreting for the theatr...Loe edasi...
This textbook offers a clear and accessible introduction to educational interpreting, focusing on the unique demands of working with deaf students in public school settings. Most interpreters begin their careers in these environments, often withou...Loe edasi...
