The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
Anne Baker · Beppie van den Bogaerde · Roland Pfau · Trude Schermer
Jun 2016 · John Benjamins Publishing Company
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How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages.
This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading.
The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments, video clips and links to web resources.
This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading.
The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments, video clips and links to web resources.
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October 23, 2017
This is a terribly written book! Every week I have to go to the internet to figure out what the authors are attempting to communicate. Did you know that "valency", as it relates to linguistics which one can find in NO OTHER PLACE THAN IN THIS TEXT is, "the number of arguments that a predicate requires in order to form a grammatical sentence" (p. 119). What does that mean in English or better yet ASL? "Predicate in signed languages differ in their valency: there are one-place, two-place, and three place predicates." Don't waste your time with this text...not helpful for 101 students!
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