{
"item_title" : "Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages",
"item_author" : [" Richard P. Meier", "Kearsy Cormier", "David Quinto-Pozos "],
"item_description" : "Signed languages are the naturally-evolved visual-gestural languages of deaf communities. The realization that they are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last thirty years of linguistic research. This book examines the linguistic properties of many, including detailed case studies of Hong Kong, British, Mexican and German signed languages. The contributors focus on determining the extent that linguistic structure is influenced by whether a language is signed or spoken. Their answers contribute to further understanding the organization of languages.",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/52/111/258/0521112583_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "70.00", "online_price" : "70.00", "our_price" : "70.00", "club_price" : "70.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : ""
}
}
Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages
Other Available Formats
Overview
Signed languages are the naturally-evolved visual-gestural languages of deaf communities. The realization that they are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last thirty years of linguistic research. This book examines the linguistic properties of many, including detailed case studies of Hong Kong, British, Mexican and German signed languages. The contributors focus on determining the extent that linguistic structure is influenced by whether a language is signed or spoken. Their answers contribute to further understanding the organization of languages.
This item is Non-Returnable
Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780521112581
- ISBN-10: 0521112583
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: June 2009
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
- Page Count: 500
Related Categories
