Sign Language: The Study of Deaf People and Their Language

by Bencie Woll, Jim G. Kyle, F. Maddix, et al.

Book Overview

The discovery of the importance of sign language in the deaf community is very recent indeed. This book provides a study of the communication and culture of deaf people, and particularly of the deaf community in Britain. The authors' principal aim is to inform educators, psychologists, linguists and professionals working with deaf people about the rich language the deaf have developed for themselves - a language of movement and space, of the hands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521357179
• ISBN13: 9780521357173
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"