A language in space: the story of Israeli Sign Language
Año:
2008
Editorial:
New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008
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Temas
Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos
Detalles
This English version of A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language, which received the Bahat Award for most outstanding book for a general audience in its Hebrew edition, is an introduction to sign language using Israeli Sign Language (ISL) as a model. Authors Irit Meir and Wendy Sandler offer a glimpse into a number of fascinating descriptions of the ISL community to which linguists and other researchers may not have access. An underlying premise of the book is that language is a mental system with universal properties, and that language lives through people.