Pinky extension and eye gaze
Subtitle: language use in deaf communities
By: Ceil Lucas, editor.
Contributors: Lucas, Ceil.
Series: Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series -- v. 4.
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Deaf -- Means of communication.; Deaf -- Social life and customs.; Sign language -- Social aspects.; Sociolinguistics.
Other titles: Language use in deaf communities.
Description: ix, 285 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A preliminary examination of pinky extension : suggestions regarding its occurrence, constraints, and function / Rob Hoopes; title: What happens in tactile ASL? / Steven Collins and Karen Petronio; title: Grammatical constraints on fingerspelled English verb loans in BSL / Rachel Sutton-Spence; title: Contact between a sign language and a written language : character signs in Taiwan sign language / Jean Ann; title: The relationship of educational policy to language and cognition in deaf children / Priscilla Shannon Gutierrez; title: Conversational repairs in ASL / Valerie L. Dively; title: Eye gaze and pronominal reference in American sign language / Melanie Metzger; title: Spatial mapping and involvement in ASL storytelling / Susan Mather and Elizabeth A. Winston; title: An acculturation model for learners of ASL / Mike Kemp; title: Irish sign language : Ireland's second minority language / Sarah E. Burns.