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Introduction | |
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What Is Sign Language? | |
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The Language of the Deaf Culture | |
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Using This Book | |
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What Is a Sign? | |
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The Four Elements of a Sign | |
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Which Hand to Use, Right or Left? | |
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Shaping the Hands | |
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The Fingerspelled Alphabet | |
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Other ASL Handshapes | |
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The Number Handshapes | |
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Hand Location | |
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Hand Movement | |
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Palm Orientation | |
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The Relationship Between Fingerspelling and Signing | |
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Elements of a Rich Language | |
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Non-manual Elements of Sign | |
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Compound Signs | |
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Gender of Signs | |
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Natural and Initialized Signs | |
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Modified Signs | |
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Personal Differences | |
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Regional Variations | |
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An Evolving Language | |
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Dictionary of ASL Signs | |
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Concrete Nouns | |
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Special issues: Finding the Sign You Seek; Noun/Verb Pairs; Plurals; International Signs | |
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People | |
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Body, Health, Sickness, and Hygiene | |
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Work, Study, Art, and Money | |
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Play, Leisure, and Travel | |
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Food and Eating | |
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Places and Furnishings | |
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Time and Climate | |
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Animals and Plants | |
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Abstractions | |
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Special issue: Handshape and Location | |
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Feeling | |
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Thought | |
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Religion, Morality, and Philosophy | |
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Action Verbs | |
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Special issue: Modified and Directional Verb Signs | |
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Moving and Doing | |
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Control, Compliance, and Competition | |
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Listing and Ordering, Beginning and Ending | |
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Communicating and Sensing | |
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Being, Having, Sharing, and Connecting | |
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Describers | |
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Special issues: The Order of Modifiers; Modifying the Modifiers; Dates and Addresses; A Special Way to Modify Numbers | |
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Human Qualities and Sensations | |
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Numbers, Amount, Degree, and Relation | |
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Shape, Size, Condition, and Color | |
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Time, Tempo, and Pace | |
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Other Parts of Signing | |
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Special issues: Pronouns; Prepositions; Questions | |
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Questions and Answers | |
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Pronouns, Indexers, and Other Stand-ins | |
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Conjunctions and Prepositions | |
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Etiquette | |
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Putting It All Together | |
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The Grammar of Facial Expression | |
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Negatives | |
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Tense | |
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Putting It All Together | |
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Humor, Piquancy, and Vulgarity | |
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Humor and Names | |
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ABC and Number Stories | |
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Vulgarities | |
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Index | |