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(0)Wendy Sandler
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are many similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. The articulators are more visible and use larger muscles with consequent greater effort. It is difficult to visually attend to both a sign and...
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Sign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have - except for a few scattered fragments in film - not been documented and are therefore under serious threat of being lost.The chapters compiled in this volume document important aspects of past and present experiences of...