Significant gestures : a history of American Sign Language / John Tabak.
Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2006.Description: x, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0275989747 (alk. paper)
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- HV2474 .T3 2006
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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.