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Shaw makes a significant contribution to defining the role of gesture from the perspective of multimodality, semiotics, interaction and embodiment. For me, as a Deaf academic, a sign language user and a member of the sign language community, Shaw's research is more than welcome...(and) is an icebreaker in an important way. --Juhana Salonen Multimodal Communication This book constitutes a very welcome challenge to the traditional emphasis on the differences between signed and spoken language use (which has unfortunately obscured many similarities), and enables Shaw to address a wide range of topical questions of interest to scholars of linguistics, anthropology, and gesture studies...Shaw's demonstration of how we can compare deaf and hearing interactions is the greatest strength of the book. --Gabrielle Hodge Journal of Pragmatics

This book constitutes a very welcome challenge to the traditional emphasis on the differences between signed and spoken language use (which has unfortunately obscured many similarities), and enables Shaw to address a wide range of topical questions of interest to scholars of linguistics, anthropology, and gesture studies...Shaw's demonstration of how we can compare deaf and hearing interactions is the greatest strength of the book. --Gabrielle Hodge Journal of Pragmatics

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Emily Shaw is an assistant professor in the Department of Interpretation and Translation at Gallaudet University. She is also a nationally certified ASL-English interpreter.

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