Signing How to Speak with Your Hands

Name: Signing How to Speak with Your Hands
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ISBN: 9780553375398

ISBN-10: 0553375393

ISBN-13: 9780553375398

Edition: 1995 (Revised)

Authors: Elaine Costello, Lois A. Lehman

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American Sign Language is a wonderful silent language of hands, face, and body that is rich with nuance, emotion, and grace. Bantam is proud to present the newly revised Signing : How To Speak With Your Hands, a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide that has long been the invaluable and definitive guide for families, friends, and professionals who need to communicate effectively with deaf children and adults. Now this expanded edition, with redesigned interiors and updated material, includes even more signs; large, upper-torso illustrations clearly show formation and movement of the hands, and their relation to the face and body. All the beautifully illustrated signs are…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.99" wide x 10.75" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


How to Use This Book


Glossary


Selected Readings



The Basics


Fingerspelling; Questions; Negatives


Common Phrases


Questions


Negatives


The American Manual Alphabet



Things


Three Ways to Form Plurals


Around the House


Clothing


Animals



People


Pronouns; Gender; The Person Marker


Relationships


Careers


Other People


Pronouns



Foods and Eating


The Signing Space; Symmetry; The Dominant Hand


Meals


Drinks


Desserts and Flavors


Fruits and Vegetables


Containers and Utensils



Descriptions


The Order of Nouns and Adjectives; Adjectives and Adverbs; Kinship Signs


Opposites


Other Descriptions


Colors



Numbers, Money, and Math


Years, House Numbers, and Money; The Teens; First, Second, Third...


Numbers


Quantity


Money and Math



Time, Days, and Seasons


Past, Present, and Future Time; Time of Day; Adding Numbers to Time


Time


Days and Holidays


Seasons and Weather



Places


Signs for Countries; Direction with "Look"; Using Classifiers to Show Movement


Cities and States


Countries


Location and Direction


Buildings



Health and Survival


Signs That Express Difficulty; Sign Placement; Compounds


Health and Medical


Parts of the Body


Survival



Recreation


Initialized Signs; Repeating Signs; The Iconicity of Signs


Sports


Leisure and Hobbies


Travel and Transportation


Geography



Actions


The Direction of the Sign; Past, Present, Future Verbs; The "To Be" Verb


Actions of the Body


Actions at School and Work


Other Actions



Being and Feeling


Signs for Thinking Activities; Signs for Feeling; Incorporation of Intensity


Actions of the Mind


Feelings



Religion and Communication


Emphasis; Signs Showing Judgment; Religious Signs


Religion


Abstract Concepts


Communication



Miscellaneous


Conceptually Accurate Signing; Classifiers for Size, Shape, Location; Noun/Verb Pairs


Music


Political


Education


Technology


Index