Sign Language
Subtitle: The Study of Deaf People and their Language
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521357173
Subjects: Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication; Sign Language; Language; Sign Language For The Deaf; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Sign Language; Language Arts & Disciplines-Sign Language; Language Arts & Disciplines-Sociolinguistics; Study and teaching; Deaf; Means of communication; Great Britain; General
First sentence: British Sign Language is a language of movement and space, of the hands and of the eyes, of abstract communication as well as iconic story-telling, but most important of all, it is the language of the deaf community in the UK.