A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language - Softcover

Meir, Irit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080586265X ISBN 13: 9780805862652

Verlag: Routledge, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

This English version of A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language, which received the Bahat Award for most outstanding book for a general audience in its Hebrew edition, is an introduction to sign language using Israeli Sign Language (ISL) as a model. Authors Irit Meir and Wendy Sandler offer a glimpse into a number of fascinating descriptions of the ISL community to which linguists and other researchers may not have access. An underlying premise of the book is that language is a mental system with universal properties, and that language lives through people.

A clear and engaging read, A Language in Space addresses relevant aspects of sign language, including the most abstract questions and matters related to society and community. Divided into three parts, the book covers:

• the linguistic structure of Israeli Sign Language;
• the language and its community; and
• a broad depiction of ISL and the contribution of sign language research to linguistic theory.

This book is intended for linguists (with or without a background in sign language), psychologists, sociologists, educators, students, and anyone with an interest in the human capacity for language.

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Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080586265X
• ISBN 13: 9780805862652
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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