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Sign Language Studies
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ASL PAH!
$39.95
V428
Deaf Students' Perspectives On Their Language
C. Valli, C. Lucas, E. Farb, P. Kulick - The text features essays and journal entries on the role of American Sign Language in the lives of deaf students. Topics include family, language, education, and identity. The videotape consists of excerpts from interviews with students who wrote the essays. Topics include school anf family backgrounds, ASL and personal identities, status of ASL as a language and a medium of instruction. This tape/text combination provides a unique opportunity to examine deaf student's perceptions of the rold of ASL in their lives.
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American Sign Language
$4.95
L520
A Look At Its History, Structure, and Community
C. Baker & C. Padden - Answers basic questions about American Sign Language: What is it? What is its history? Who uses it? What is the Deaf community? Why is ASL important? What are the building blocks of ASL? What is the relationship between ASL and body language? What are examples of ASL grammar? (22 pgs, softcover, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2")
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American Sign Language: Shattering The Myth
$19.95
L952
Edited By T. Bertling - No library will be complete without this landmark book on ASL and deaf education. This literary milestone, edited by noted author Tom Bertling, is headlined with writings by the late Dr.Larry Stewart and Prof. Frances Parsons, both once members of the faculty of Gallaudet University. Along with Dr. Otto Menzel, Dr. Donald Moores, Prof. Truman Stelle, and PhD student Patrick Seamans, the writers venture into the heart of deaf language and cultural issues and reward us with the kind of critical thinking largely absent from many proponents of ASL-based learning. (112 pgs, softcover, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2")
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Deaf Children In Public Schools
$52.95
L229
C. Ramsey - This third volume in the "Sociolingustics in Deaf Communities" series is the work of a single author who studies the progress of elementary level deaf students placed in different environments. Her findings provide valuable information for educators and parents in assessing and enhancing educational needs of deaf children. (125 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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The Development of Deaf Children
$45.95
L241
K. Heiling - This revealing volume presents the research from a videotape study of behavior of 20 deaf children for 14 years, and a comprehensive test at age 15 to assess their development.
(280 pgs, hardcover, 6-1/2" x 9-3/8")
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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language
$19.95
L744
Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
N.E. Groce - This book presents a detailed, vivid description of daily life in the early years of this century when an entire community on Martha's Vineyard, Deaf and hearing people, used sign language. (186 pgs, softcover, 5" x 7")
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International Bibliography of Sign Language
$91.95
L243
International Studies on Sign Language Research & Communication of the Deaf
G. H. G.Joachin, S. Prillwitz - In dual English and German texts, this comprehensive reference presents bibliographical information for all publications on sign language before 1993, including articles, videotapes, and available unpublished papers and articles. Listed alphabetically, the entries have been arranged in 14 topcial categories for easy use. Recommended for academic libraries.
(663 pgs, hardcover, 6-1/5" x 9-3/8")
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Language In Motion
$34.50
L188
Exploring the Nature of Sign
D. Schein & D. Stewart - This enjoyable book introduces sign language and communication as well as the process required to learn sign language. Explore the history of sign languages and sign systems used around the world and their relationship to American Sign Language structure. (240 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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Language in Hand
$45.95
L330
Why Sign Came Before Speech
W. C. Stokoe - William C. Stokoe offers here in his final book his formula for the development of language in humans: gesture-to-language-to-speech. He refutes the recently entrenched principles that humans have a special, innate learning faculty for language and that speech equates with language. Integrating current finding in linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology, Stokoe fashions a closely-reasoned argument that suggests how our human ancestors' powers of observation and natural hand movements could have evolved into signed morphemes. (246 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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Lend Me Your Ear
$65.50
L282
B.J. Brueggemann - A rigorously argued study that assails the 2,500 year-old tradition of rhetoric that emphasizes speech as a defining characteristic of reason because it disallows deaf people human identity due to their silence. Break-out conecpts that will stimulate scholars and students of rhetoric, language, and Deaf studies to return to this intriguing work again and again. (302 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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Linguistics of American Sign Language
$75.00
L195
4th Edition, An Introduction
C. Valli & C. Lucas - Featuring a completely revised section on morphology and syntax, 18 new and updated readings, and new homework assignments based on the assignments based on the accompanying DVD, the fourth edition expands its purview as the standard introduction to ASL linguistics available today. Offers new units on Verbs in ASL, Simple Sentences in ASL, Classifier Predicates, Syntax, and Basic Sentence Types. (560 pgs, hardcover, 8" x 11", DVD)
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Linguistics of American Sign Language Videotape
$49.95
V195
Accompanies text (above).
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Many Ways to Be Deaf
$76.95
L368
International Variation in Deaf Communities
L. Monaghan, C. Schmaling, K. Nakamura & G.H. Turner eds - Presents an unmatched collection of in-depth articles about linguistic diversity in Deaf communities on five continents. The remarkable range of topics include the evolution of British fingerspelling traced back to the 17th century; the comparison of Swiss German Sign Language with Rhaeto-Romansch, another Swiss minority language; the analysis of seven signed languages described in Thailand and how they differ in relation to their distance from isolated Deaf communities to urban centers; the vaulting development of a nascent sign language in Nicaragua, and much more. (344 pgs, hardcover, 7" x 10")
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Multicultural Aspect of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities
$45.95
L214
C. Lucas - This collection offers a wide variety of fascinating studies that consider multicultural aspects among deaf people worldwide. Topics include bilingual education in Venezuela, sociolinguistic and educational implication in comparing ASL and English word definition, and more.
(246 pgs, softcover, 6" x 9")
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Original Signs
$45.95
L272
Gesture, Sign, and the Sources of Language
D. Armstrong - This cogent, highly readable book belongs in libraries, Deaf Studies and Language Arts classes. By making no strict separation between language and gesture, Armstrong explores the concept that signs used by Deaf people to create a fully formed language also reflects a natural facet of communication development for all people. (200 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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Seeing Language In Sign
$34.50
L219
The Work of William C. Stokoe
J. Maher - This perceptive account dramatically captures the process that William Stokoe followed to prove scientifically and unequivocally that American Sign Language met the full criteria of linguistics to be classified as a fully developed language. (216 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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Signing Exact English or Not?
$17.50
L603
A Collection of Articles
G. Gustason - During the past few years, there has been increasing interest in the question of sign communication facilitating the learning of English by hearing impaired students. Researchers have begun to focus more and more on this question. What type of sign communication is most effective in helping students learn English? Can teachers and parents sign everything they say? Do they? The articles collected in this book take hard looks at these and similar questions. (138 pgs, softcover, 8-1/2" x 11")
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Sociolinguistics In Deaf Communities
$52.95
L198
C. Lucas - The first volume in the Sociolinguistics series presents a rich collection of essays on fingerspelling and affords an invaluable opportunity to assess up-to-date information on sign language linguistics worldwide and its impact on policy and planning in education, interaction, with spoken languages, interpreting, and issues of empowerment.
(352 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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What's Your Sign for PIZZA?
$49.95
L386
An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language
C. Lucas, R. Bayley, C. Valli - This introductory text celebrates the way American Sign Language (ASL) is used by Deaf people all across the nation. This book derives from an extensive seven-year research project in which more than 200 Deaf ASL users representing different ages, genders, and ethnic groups from seven different regions were videotaped sharing their signs for everyday vocabulary. Also briefly sketches the development of ASL, which explains the relationships between language varieties throughout the country.
(200 pgs, hardcover, 6" x 9")
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