Signing: How To Speak With YOur Hands

Description

American Sign Language is a wonderful silent language of hands, face, and body that is rich with nuance, emotion, and grace. Bantam is proud to present the newly revised Signing : How To Speak With Your Hands, a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide that has long been the invaluable and definitive guide for families, friends, and professionals who need to communicate effectively with deaf children and adults. Now this expanded edition, with redesigned interiors and updated material, includes even more signs; large, upper-torso illustrations clearly show formation and movement of the hands, and their relation to the face and body. All the beautifully illustrated signs are accompanied by precise, easy-to-follow instructions on how to form them. This complete guide includes chapters on common phrases, the alphabet, foods and eating, health, recreation, and the newest chapter covering technology, politics. education, and music. From the Trade Paperback edition. Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction How to Use This Book Glossary Selected Readings 1 The Basics Fingerspelling; Questions; Negatives Common Phrases Questions Negatives The American Manual Alphabet 2 Things Three Ways to Form Plurals Around the House Clothing Animals 3 People Pronouns; Gender; The Person Marker Relationships Careers Other People Pronouns 4 Foods and Eating The Signing Space; Symmetry; The Dominant Hand Meals Drinks Desserts and Flavors Fruits and Vegetables Containers and Utensils 5 Descriptions The Order of Nouns and Adjectives; Adjectives and Adverbs; Kinship Signs Opposites Other Descriptions Colors 6 Numbers, Money, and Math Years, House Numbers, and Money; The Teens; First, Second, Third … Numbers Quantity Money and Math 7 Time, Days, and Seasons Past, Present, and Future Time; Time of Day; Adding Numbers to Time Time Days and Holidays Seasons and Weather 8 Places Signs for Countries; Direction with “Look”; Using Classifiers to Show Movement Cities and States Countries Location and Direction Buildings 9 Health and Survival Signs That Express Difficulty; Sign Placement; Compounds Health and Medical Parts of the Body Survival 10 Recreation Initialized Signs; Repeating Signs; The Iconicity of Signs Sports Leisure and Hobbies Travel and Transportation Geography 11 Actions The Direction of the Sign; Past, Present, Future Verbs; The “To Be” Verb Actions of the Body Actions at School and Work Other Actions 12 Being and Feeling Signs for Thinking Activities; Signs for Feeling; Incorporation of Intensity Actions of the Mind Feelings 13 Religion and Communication Emphasis; Signs Showing Judgment; Religious Signs Religion Abstract Concepts Communication 14 Miscellaneous Conceptually Accurate Signing; Classifiers for Size, Shape, Location; Noun/Verb Pairs Music Political Education Technology Index