Garrick Mallery

Sign Language Among North American Indians (eBook, ePUB)

Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary. The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by many of them, naturally directed the first researches to that continent, with the result that a large body of facts procured from collaborators and by personal examination has now been gathered and classified.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Madison & Adams Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788026888604
• Artikelnr.: 52359947

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