Ideas Roadshow Conversations: Sign Language Linguistics - A Conversation with Carol Padden
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| Title: | Ideas Roadshow Conversations: Sign Language Linguistics - A Conversation with Carol Padden |
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| Description: | This book is based on an in-depth conversation with Carol Padden, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication at UC San Diego. This conversation provides a detailed exploration of Carol Padden's areas of research, starting with her personal experiences of growing up with American Sign Language, deaf culture, her early work with Bill Stokoe, the linguistic complexity, structure and properties of ASL and other sign languages, the role of gesture and embodiment, and the ways in which language forms are created, propagated, and conventionalized in natural environments throughout the world. This carefully-edited book includes a detailed introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter and connections with other books in the Ideas Roadshow Conversations series. |
| Authors: | Howard Burton |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | American Sign Language |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book is based on an in-depth conversation with Carol Padden, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication at UC San Diego. This conversation provides a detailed exploration of Carol Padden's areas of research, starting with her personal experiences of growing up with American Sign Language, deaf culture, her early work with Bill Stokoe, the linguistic complexity, structure and properties of ASL and other sign languages, the role of gesture and embodiment, and the ways in which language forms are created, propagated, and conventionalized in natural environments throughout the world. This carefully-edited book includes a detailed introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter and connections with other books in the Ideas Roadshow Conversations series. |
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| ISBN: | 9781771700801 9781771702706 |
