Signing : How To Speak With Your Hands - Elaine Costello

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How To Speak With Your Hands

By: Elaine Costello

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Paperback | 1 August 1995 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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Revised

Dimensions(cm)
27.3 x 20.3 x 2.0

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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 accompanied by precise, easy-to-follow instructions on how to form them. This complete guide includes chapters on common phrases, the alphabet, foods and eating, health, recreation, and the newest chapter covering technology, politics. education, and music.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
How to Use This Book	p. xv
Glossary	p. xix
Selected Readings	p. xxi
The Basics	p. 1
Fingerspelling; Questions; Negatives	p. 2
Common Phrases	p. 3
Questions	p. 8
Negatives	p. 11
The American Manual Alphabet	p. 13
Things	p. 15
Three Ways to Form Plurals	p. 16
Around the House	p. 17
Clothing	p. 24
Animals	p. 29
People	p. 35
Pronouns; Gender; The Person Marker	p. 36
Relationships	p. 37
Careers	p. 41
Other People	p. 46
Pronouns	p. 50
Foods and Eating	p. 55
The Signing Space; Symmetry; The Dominant Hand	p. 56
Meals	p. 57
Drinks	p. 61
Desserts and Flavors	p. 63
Fruits and Vegetables	p. 65
Containers and Utensils	p. 69
Descriptions	p. 71
The Order of Nouns and Adjectives; Adjectives and Adverbs; Kinship Signs	p. 72
Opposites	p. 73
Other Descriptions	p. 82
Colors	p. 87
Numbers, Money, and Math	p. 89
Years, House Numbers, and Money; The Teens; First, Second, Third...	p. 90
Numbers	p. 91
Quantity	p. 96
Money and Math	p. 102
Time, Days, and Seasons	p. 107
Past, Present, and Future Time; Time of Day; Adding Numbers to Time	p. 108
Time	p. 109
Days and Holidays	p. 116
Seasons and Weather	p. 120
Places	p. 123
Signs for Countries; Direction with "Look"; Using Classifiers to Show Movement	p. 124
Cities and States	p. 125
Countries	p. 128
Location and Direction	p. 132
Buildings	p. 139
Health and Survival	p. 141
Signs That Express Difficulty; Sign Placement; Compounds	p. 142
Health and Medical	p. 143
Parts of the Body	p. 149
Survival	p. 152
Recreation	p. 157
Initialized Signs; Repeating Signs; The Iconicity of Signs	p. 158
Sports	p. 159
Leisure and Hobbies	p. 162
Travel and Transportation	p. 167
Geography	p. 172
Actions	p. 175
The Direction of the Sign; Past, Present, Future Verbs; The "To Be" Verb	p. 176
Actions of the Body	p. 177
Actions at School and Work	p. 182
Other Actions	p. 190
Being and Feeling	p. 197
Signs for Thinking Activities; Signs for Feeling; Incorporation of Intensity	p. 198
Actions of the Mind	p. 199
Feelings	p. 206
Religion and Communication	p. 213
Emphasis; Signs Showing Judgment; Religious Signs	p. 214
Religion	p. 215
Abstract Concepts	p. 221
Communication	p. 226
Miscellaneous	p. 233
Conceptually Accurate Signing; Classifiers for Size, Shape, Location; Noun/Verb Pairs	p. 234
Music	p. 235
Political	p. 238
Education	p. 241
Technology	p. 245
Index	p. 249
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