Communicating with deaf people
Subtitle: a resource manual for teachers and students of American sign language
By: by Harry W. Hoemann ; with ill. by Shirley A. Hoemann.
Series: Perspectives in audiology series
Publisher: University Park Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: American sign language; Deafness -- Rehabilitation; Manual communication
Notes: Bibliography: p. 109-117.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Signs as meaningful units in ASL.; title: From cheremes to distinctive features; title: Iconicity and transparency; title: Initialized signs; title: Gender markers; title: Pluralization; title: Compounds; title: Fingerspelling; title: Incorporation; title: Emphasis and stress; title: Natural expressive gestures; title: Pantomime; title: Structure in ASL phrases and clauses.; title: Sign space; title: Spatial organization; title: Temporal durations and relations; title: Questions, answers, and commands; title: Conditional sentences; title: Juncture markers; title: Eye gaze; title: Role taking; title: Breathing and signing; title: Song and poetry in sign