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Significant gestures : a history of American Sign Language / John Tabak.

By: Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2006.Description: x, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0275989747 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 419/.7 22
LOC classification:
  • HV2474 .T3 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Methodological signs and the roots of American Sign Language -- Ch. 2. The natural language of signs -- Ch. 3. Experiment in television and the last of the great Anti-American sign language debates -- Ch. 4. The language of the deaf -- Ch. 5. Race, deafness, and American Sign Language -- Ch. 6. A language like any other -- Ch. 7. Modern ideas about modality -- Ch. 8. The deafblind and American Sign Language -- Ch. 9. Some contemporary trends affecting American Sign Language -- Afterword : the future of American Sign language.
List(s) this item appears in: Deaf History Month : 03/13-4/15
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV2474 .T3 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000889047

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-217) and index.

Ch. 1. Methodological signs and the roots of American Sign Language -- Ch. 2. The natural language of signs -- Ch. 3. Experiment in television and the last of the great Anti-American sign language debates -- Ch. 4. The language of the deaf -- Ch. 5. Race, deafness, and American Sign Language -- Ch. 6. A language like any other -- Ch. 7. Modern ideas about modality -- Ch. 8. The deafblind and American Sign Language -- Ch. 9. Some contemporary trends affecting American Sign Language -- Afterword : the future of American Sign language.

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