Joseph Hill, Diane Lillo-Martin, Sandra Wood

Sign Languages (eBook, ePUB)

Structures and Contexts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Offering an engaging and accessible introduction to sign languages, this book is essential reading for students studying this topic for the first time with little or no background in linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429665141
• Artikelnr.: 56835195

Autorenporträt

Joseph C. Hill is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education at the National Technical Institutes for the Deaf in Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

Diane C. Lillo-Martin is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Research Scientist at Haskins Laboratories, USA.

Sandra K. Wood is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and ASL Program Coordinator at the University of Southern Maine, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Phonology
Chapter 3: Morphology
Chapter 4: Syntax
Chapter 5: Children with input from birth
Chapter 6: Contexts of later language development
Chapter 7: Homesign systems
Chapter 8: Variation
Chapter 9: Language Attitudes
Chapter 10: Language Policy and Planning
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Index