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| Title: | Talking hands : what sign language reveals about the mind / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Margalit Fox |
| ISBN: | 9780743247122; 0743247124; 9780743247139 (pbk.) :; 0743247132 (pbk.) : |
| Notes: | Also issued online. Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index. |
| Description: | viii, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. In the village of the deaf -- 2. "What is this wonderful language?" -- 3. The road to Al-Sayyid -- 4. Th sign-language instinct -- 5. Starry night -- 6. The atoms of sign -- 7. The house of blue roses -- 8. Everyone here speaks sign language -- 9. Hyssop -- 10. The web of words -- 11. The house built from the second story down -- 12. Grammar in midair -- 13. Hassan's house -- 14. A sign in mind -- 15. The house of twenty children -- 16. The signing brain -- 17. In a wet place -- Afterword : It takes a village -- A note on sources -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Margalit Fox. |
| Year: | c2007. |
| Publisher: | New York : Simon & Schuster, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2007017624 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: P117; Dewey No.: 419 |
| More information: | Table of contents only Sample text Publisher description |
| OCLC No.: | 124036228 |
Abstract:
Documents life in a remote Bedouin village in Israel whose residents communicate through a unique method of sign language used by both hearing and non-hearing citizens, and offers insight into the relationship between language and the human mind.
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