Garrick Mallery

Sign Language Among North American Indians

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Produktbeschreibung

Fascinating, wide-ranging study describes and illustrates signs used for specific words, phrases, sentences, and even dialogues. Scores of diagrams show precise movements of body and hands for signing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780486419480
• ISBN-10: 0486419487
• Artikelnr.: 21069517

Autorenporträt

Garrick Mallery was an American ethnologist specializing in Native American sign language and pictographs.

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTORY Divisions of Gesture Speech The Origin
of Sign Language Some Theories upon Primitive Language History of Gesture
Language Modern Use of Gesture Speech Our Indian Conditions Favorable to
Sign Language Theories Entertained Respecting Indian Signs Results Sought
in the Study of Sign Language Notable Points for Further Researches Mode in
Which Researches Have Been Made LIST OF AUTHORITIES AND COLLABORATORS
EXTRACTS FROM DICTIONARY Tribal Signs Proper Names Phrases Dialogues
Narratives Discourses SIGNALS Signals Executed by Bodily Action Signals in
Which Objects Are Used in Connection with Personal Action Signals Made When
the Person of the Signalist is Not Visible SCHEME OF ILLUSTRATION Outlines
for Arm Positions in Sign Language Types of Hand Positions in Sign Langage
Examples