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Significant gestures : a history of American Sign Language
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Significant gestures : a history of American Sign Language

Author: John Tabak
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Tabak
ISBN: 0275989747 9780275989743
OCLC Number: 70334887
Description: x, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Methodological signs and the roots of American Sign Language -- ch. 2. The natural language of signs -- ch. 3. Experiment in television and the last of the great anti-American Sign Language debates -- ch. 4. The language of the deaf -- ch. 5. Race, deafness, and American Sign Language -- ch. 6. A language like any other -- ch. 7. Modern ideas about modality -- ch. 8. The deafblind and American Sign Language -- ch. 9. Some contemporary trends affecting American Sign Language -- Afterword : The future of American Sign Language -- Notes -- Index.
Responsibility: John Tabak.
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