The K Handshape

Author : Maureen Jennings
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 155488649X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The K Handshape written by Maureen Jennings and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2009 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel Christine Morris is awakened early on a chill November morning by a phone call from one of her colleagues, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Leo Forgach. His daughter, Deirdre, is missing. Despite the fact that she and the doctor have never seen eye to eye, Christine agrees to help him search for Deirdre – only to discover her brutally strangled body in the lake. Heartbroken, Leo tells Christine that his daughter was deaf and had recently given birth to a child she had deliberately ensured would be deaf. As a militant suporter of the Deaf Culture, Deirdre wanted a deaf child to make a political statement. Although some people supported her stand, many did not – including Deirdre’s own father. Christine must use her new kills as a forensic profiler to discover the killer.

Author : Maureen Jennings
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770702954
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The K Handshape written by Maureen Jennings and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2009 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel Christine Morris is awakened early on a chill November morning by a phone call from one of her colleagues, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Leo Forgach. His daughter, Deirdre, is missing. Despite the fact that she and the doctor have never seen eye to eye, Christine agrees to help him search for Deirdre – only to discover her brutally strangled body in the lake. Heartbroken, Leo tells Christine that his daughter was deaf and had recently given birth to a child she had deliberately ensured would be deaf. As a militant suporter of the Deaf Culture, Deirdre wanted a deaf child to make a political statement. Although some people supported her stand, many did not – including Deirdre’s own father. Christine must use her new kills as a forensic profiler to discover the killer.

Author : Raquel Veiga Busto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110989190
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Person and Number written by Raquel Veiga Busto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Person and number are two basic grammatical categories. However, they have not yet been exhaustively documented in many sign languages. This volume presents a thorough description of the form and interpretation of person and number in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal pronouns. This is the first book exploring together the two categories (and their interaction) in a sign language. Building on a combination of elicitation methods and corpus data analysis, this book shows that person and number are encoded through a set of distinctive phonological features: person is formally marked through spatial features, and number by the path specifications of the sign. Additionally, this study provides evidence that the same number marker might have a different semantic import depending on the person features with which it is combined. Results of this investigation contribute fresh data to cross-linguistic studies on person and number, which are largely based on evidence from spoken language only. Furthermore, while this research identifies a number of significant differences with respect to prior descriptions of person and number in other sign languages, it also demonstrates that, from a typological standpoint, the array of distinctions that LSC draws within each category is not exceptional.

Author : Adonia K. Smith
Publisher : Aslrose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Have You Ever Seen--? written by Adonia K. Smith and published by Aslrose. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-four of the most commonly used handshapes in ASL are illustrated and demonstrated by native ASL users who present the handshape then sign the entire content of the accompanying book, providing information about the Deaf community, its culture and it language.

Author : Onno Alex Crasborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phonetic Implementation of Phonological Categories in Sign Language of the Netherlands written by Onno Alex Crasborn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victoria Anna Sophie Nyst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Descriptive Analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) written by Victoria Anna Sophie Nyst and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adamorobe, a small Akan village in Ghana, has an unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness. As a result, a sign language came into being, Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL), which is unrelated to any other sign language described so far and is assumed to be about 200 years old. The present study describes selected aspects of AdaSL, notably phonology, lexicon, the expression of size and shape and the encoding of motion events. A comparison of these aspects with descriptions of other sign languages reveals interesting cross-linguistic differences in the use of iconicity as well as in the use of space and classifier constructions. Data were collected during three periods of fieldwork of nine months in total. Moreover, this study considers to what extent the social setting may influence the development of structural features in sign languages. This investigation nuances the impact the visual-spatial modality has on sign language structure. The book is of interest to scholars of sign linguistics, African linguistics, as well as contact linguistics and Deaf studies.

Author : Maureen Jennings
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 155488523X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does Your Mother Know? written by Maureen Jennings and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-09-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine Morris has been sent to Edinburgh to attend a conference on the latest in police methodology. There she is tracked down by the Northern Constabulary, Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, who inform her that her estranged mother has been involved in a vehicular homicide and has gone missing. Reluctantly, Christine agrees to fly up to Stornoway, where her mother was last seen. Her arrival is followed by the suspicious death of one of the islanders. What unfolds is a deepening involvement in the life of the community, an unexpected reconnection with her mother, and a nefarious plot against one of the young princes, who is planning a visit to the island. Set against the backdrop of a breathtaking landscape and a people who are fiercely proud of their traditional way of life, Does Your Mother Know? races along to a galloping finish in this complex tale of suspense.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Siple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Language Through Sign Language Research written by Patricia Siple and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Locke Estens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paraclete and Mahdi Or the Exact Testimony of Science to Revelations and Exposition of the Most Ancient Mysteries and Cults ... written by John Locke Estens and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: