Sign Language Made Simple

• Author : Suzie Chafin
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 04 August 2009

While learning a new language isn't a “knack” for everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality photos enable quick learning. By a “bilingual” author whose parents were both deaf, and photographed by a design professor at the leading deaf university, Gallaudet, it covers all the basic building blocks of communication. It does so with a view to each reader's reason for learning, whether teaching a toddler

• Author : Irene Duke
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 17 March 2009

Discover the intricacies of American Sign Language with this comprehensive, essential guide to learning the basics of sign language. The appeal of American Sign Language (ASL) has extended beyond the Deaf community into the mainstream—it’s even popular as a class in high school and college. You are guided through the basics of ASL with clear instruction and more than 300 illustrations. With a minimum of time and effort, you will learn to sign: the ASL alphabet; questions and common

• Author : Karen Lewis
• Publisher : Crown
• Release : 18 August 1997

Sign Language Made Simple will include five Parts: Part One: an introduction, how to use this book, a brief history of signing and an explanation of how signing is different from other languages, including its use of non-manual markers (the use of brow, mouth, etc in signing.) Part Two: Fingerspelling: the signing alphabet illustrated, the relationship between signing alphabet and ASL signs Part Three: Dictionary of ASL signs: concrete nouns, abstractions, verbs, describers, other parts of speech-approx. 1,000 illustrations. Will also

• Author : Clayton Valli,Ceil Lucas
• Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
• Release : 03 February 2023

New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4

• Author : Charlotte Lee Baker-Shenk,Dennis Cokely
• Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
• Release : 03 February 1991

The videocassettes illustrate dialogues for the text it accompanies, and also provides ASL stories, poems and dramatic prose for classroom use. Each dialogue is presented three times to allow the student to "converse with" each signer. Also demonstrates the grammar and structure of sign language. The teacher's text on grammar and culture focuses on the use of three basic types of sentences, four verb inflections, locative relationships and pronouns, etc. by using sign language. The teacher's text on curriculum and

• Author : Dennis Cokely,Charlotte Baker-Shenk
• Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
• Release : 03 February 1991

The videocassettes illustrate dialogues for the text it accompanies, and also provides ASL stories, poems and dramatic prose for classroom use. Each dialogue is presented three times to allow the student to "converse with" each signer. Also demonstrates the grammar and structure of sign language. The teacher's text on grammar and culture focuses on the use of three basic types of sentences, four verb inflections, locative relationships and pronouns, etc. by using sign language. The teacher's text on curriculum and

• Author : Irene Duke
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 18 August 2009

An accessible reference covers basic alphabet, vocabulary, and communication techniques using American Sign Language for a variety of needs from signing to infants and assisting a child with special needs to interacting with hearing-impaired seniors and working in business environments. Original.

• Author : D.C. Lillo-Martin
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 30 September 1991

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE American Sign Language (ASL) is the visual-gestural language used by most of the deaf community in the United States and parts of Canada. On the surface, this language (as all signed languages) seems radically different from the spoken languages which have been used to formulate theories of linguistic princi ples and parameters. However, the position taken in this book is that when the surface effects of modality are stripped away, ASL will be seen to follow many

• Author : Scott K. Liddell
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 13 March 2003

In sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. This obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing has no parallel in vocally produced languages. This book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by these directional signs. It guides the reader through ASL grammar, the different categories of directional signs, the types of spatial representations signs are directed toward,

• Author : Carol Jan Neidle,Judy Kegl,Benjamin Bahan,Dawn MacLaughlin,Robert G. Lee,Professor of Law and Co-Director Esrc Research Centre on Business Relationships Accountability Sustainability and Society Robert G Lee
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 03 February 2023

Recent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlying principles as spoken languages. This book addresses the organization and distribution of functional categories in American Sign Language (ASL), focusing on tense, agreement, and wh-constructions. Signed languages provide illuminating evidence about functional projections of a kind unavailable in the study of spoken languages. Along with manual signing, crucial information is expressed by specific movements of

• Author : Ceil Lucas,Robert Bayley,Clayton Valli
• Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
• Release : 03 February 2023

Linguists Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Clayton Valli and a host of other researchers have taken the techniques used to study the regional variations in speech (such as saying "hwhich" for "which") and have applied them to American Sign Language. Discover how the same driving social factors affect signs in different regions in Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language.

• Author : David A. Stewart,Jennifer Stewart
• Publisher : Barrons Educational Series
• Release : 05 January 2021

Barron’s American Sign Language is a brand-new title on ASL that can be used in the classroom, as a supplemental text to high school and college courses, or for anyone who wants to learn proper ASL. The only book with comprehensive instruction and online graded video practice quizzes, plus a comprehensive final video exam. Content includes topics on the Deaf culture and community, ASL Grammar, fingerspelling, combining signs to construct detailed sentences, Everyday ASL, and much more. More than 1,000

• Author : Adan R. Penilla, II,Angela Lee Taylor
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 11 November 2016

Grasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the wonderful world of sign language. American Sign Language For Dummies offers you an easy-to-access introduction so you can get your hands wet with ASL, whether you're new to the language or looking for a great refresher. Used predominantly in the United States, ASL provides the

• Author : Kim Taylor-DiLeva
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 11 November 2010

This book shows how integrating American Sign Language (ASL) into story time and other educational programs can benefit and entertain ALL children, whether or not they are hearing impaired, from infancy onward. • Includes 14 complete program ideas appropriate for young learners, from infancy through high school-age patrons (plus parents of babies/toddlers) • More than 200 photos clearly illustrate signs • Resources listed include ASL Books/Media for Adults, ASL Books/Media for Children, and the ASL Manual Alphabet

• Author : Carol A. Padden
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 25 November 2016

This study, first published in 1988, examines cases of interaction of morphology and syntax in American Sign Language and proposes that clause structure and syntactic phenomena are not defined in terms of verb agreement or sign order, but in terms of grammatical relations. Using the framework of relational grammar developed by Perlmutter and Postal in which grammatical relations such as "subject", "direct object", etc. are taken as primitives of linguistic theory, facts about syntactic phenomena, including verb agreement and sign order