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Sign language among North American Indians compared with that among other peoples and deaf-mutes / Garrick Mallery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallery, Garrick, author.
- Series:
- Approaches to semiotics ; 14.
- Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sign language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 pages).
- Edition:
- Photomechan. reprint [d. Ausg. Washington] 1881. Reprint 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Fascinating, wide-ranging study describes and illustrates signs used for specific words, phrases, sentences, and even dialogues. Scores of diagrams show precise movements of body and hands for signing.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- SIGN LANGUAGE INQUIRY / Kroeber, A.L.
- SIGN LANGUAGE ANALYSIS, ON ONE LEVEL OR TWO? / Voegelin, C.F.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTORY
- LIST OF AUTHORITIES AND COLLABORATORS
- EXTRACTS FROM DICTIONARY
- SIGNALS
- SCHEME OF ILLUSTRATION
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110808407
- 3110808404
- OCLC:
- 1091687042
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