Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication books

1261 books were found.

The Art of Sign Language: Phrases

The Art of Sign Language: Phrases

Author: Christopher Brown
ISBN: 9781592230907
Format: Hardback
$26.35

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Deaf President Now! - the 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University

Deaf President Now! - the 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet...

Author: John B. Christiansen ,  Sharon N. Barnartt
ISBN: 9781563681523
Format: Paperback
$96.36

Deaf President Now! reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week in 1988 when the students at Gallaudet...  Read More >>

Signing For Dummies

Signing For Dummies

Author: Adan R. Penilla ,  Angela Lee Taylor
ISBN: 9780764554360
Format: Mixed media product
$58.05

American Sign Language (ASL) is something we've all seen Deaf people use in restaurants, hospitals, airports, and...  Read More >>

Digiti Lingua or the Most Compendious, Copious, Facile and Secret Way of Silent Converse Ever Yet Discovered (1698)

Digiti Lingua or the Most Compendious, Copious, Facile...

Author: Anonymous
ISBN: 9780766169524
Format: Paperback
$42.11

This volume shows how any two persons may be capable, in half an hour's time, to discourse together by their fingers...  Read More >>

Making Sense in Sign: A Lifeline for a Deaf Child

Making Sense in Sign: A Lifeline for a Deaf Child

Author: Jenny Froude
ISBN: 9781853596285
Format: Paperback
$56.80

Language which develops 'against all the odds' is very precious. Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that...  Read More >>

The American Sign Language Puzzle Book

The American Sign Language Puzzle Book

Author: Justin Segal ,  Lou Fant
ISBN: 9780071413541
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Features a collection of crosswords, scrambles, and pyramids which offer options for testing knowledge and building...  Read More >>

The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language

The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in...

Author: Susan Goldin-Meadow
ISBN: 9781841690261
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This title suggests that all children, deaf or hearing, come to language-learning ready to develop language properties...  Read More >>

Indian Sign Language

Indian Sign Language

Author: William Tomkins
ISBN: 9780486220291
Format: Paperback
$15.71

Indian hand gestures are listed alphabetically by English equivalent, with sample sentence structure as well as...  Read More >>

At Home Among Strangers - Exploring the Deaf Community in the United States

At Home Among Strangers - Exploring the Deaf Community...

Author: Jerome D. Schein
ISBN: 9781563681417
Format: Paperback
$97.55

At Home Among Strangers presents an engrossing portrait of the Deaf community as a complex, nationwide social network...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages...

Author: Karen Emmorey
ISBN: 9780805842692
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume is the culmination of work discussed & presented at the Workshop on Classifier Contructions held in...  Read More >>

From Sign to Signing

From Sign to Signing

Author: Wolfgang G. Müller (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) ,  Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789027225931
Format: Hardback
$435.60

This volume covers topics including: auditory and visual signs and signing; visual iconicity and iconic mapping;...  Read More >>

Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs

Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs

Author: John Montgomery
ISBN: 9780781808620
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This work is a visual dictionary of Maya glyphs, offering a comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each...  Read More >>

Talking with Your Hands, Liste

Talking with Your Hands, Liste

Author: Gabriel Grayson ,  Gabriel Gryson
ISBN: 9780757000072
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Grayson makes sign language accessible, easy, and fun with this comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and...  Read More >>

Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language

Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language...

Author: Scott K Liddell (Gallaudet University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781280420016
Format: Undefined
$514.80

In sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the...  Read More >>

Turn-taking, Fingerspelling and Contact in Signed Languages

Turn-taking, Fingerspelling and Contact in Signed Languages...

Author: Ceil Lucas
ISBN: 9781563681288
Format: Hardback
$184.67

In five compelling chapters, this volume elucidates several key factors of the signed languages used in select international...  Read More >>

The American Sign Language Handshape Starter

The American Sign Language Handshape Starter

Author: Richard A. Tennant ,  Marianne Gluszak Brown
ISBN: 9781563681301
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Beginning signers can now improve their recognition of the most commonly used signs with this easy-to-follow handbook....  Read More >>

Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages

Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages...

Author: Richard P Meier (University of Texas, Austin) ,  Kearsy Cormier (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781280433344
Format: Electronic book text
$516.38

The realization that signed languages are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last 30 years of...  Read More >>

Tactile Sign Language (signum Verlag) - Turn Taking and Questions in Signed Conversations of Deaf-blind People

Tactile Sign Language (signum Verlag) - Turn Taking...

Author: Johanna Mesch
ISBN: 9783927731806
Format: Paperback
$158.27

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Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics

Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based...

Author: Wallis Reid (Rutgers University) ,  Ricardo Otheguy (City University of New York)
ISBN: 9789027215574
Format: Hardback
$282.04

This is the second volume of papers to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. It assumes a basic familiarity...  Read More >>

Original Signs

Original Signs

Author: D.F Armstrong
ISBN: 9781563681332
Format: Paperback
$91.08

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The Canadian Dictionary of ASL

The Canadian Dictionary of ASL

Author: Carole Sue Bailey ,  Kathy Dolby
ISBN: 9780888643001
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This tried and true reference work reflects the unique use of American Sign Language in Canada.  Read More >>

Damned for Their Difference

Damned for Their Difference

Author: Jan Branson ,  Don Miller
ISBN: 9781563681219
Format: Paperback
$116.03

Being ""different"" shouldn't be ""damning."" However, in Damned for Their Difference, Jan Branson and Don Miller...  Read More >>

Hands are the Head of the Mouth

Hands are the Head of the Mouth

Author: Penny Boyes Braem
ISBN: 9783927731837
Format: Paperback
$160.91

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