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Sign languages of Aboriginal Australia : cultural, semiotic, and communicative perspectives / Adam Kendon.

Title: Sign languages of Aboriginal Australia : cultural, semiotic, and communicative perspectives / Adam Kendon.
Author: Kendon, Adam
Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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Subject

Aboriginal Australians > Sign language

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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Contents

Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; Orthographic conventions and descriptive terms; 1. Introduction; 2. Aboriginal sign languages observed: a history; 3. Aboriginal sign languages observed: geographical review; 4. North central desert background; 5. Sign structures; 6. Sign forming and sign meaning; 7. Sign organization and word structure; 8. Signing spoken language grammar; 9. Discourse in sign and speech; 10. Signing and speaking simultaneously; 11. Signs of kinship; 12. Comparing Aboriginal sign languages; 13. Australian Aboriginal sign languages and other semiotic systems; 14. Aboriginal interaction and Aboriginal sign language; Appendix I. Sign notation symbols; Appendix II. Two versions of a Warlpiri story; References; Index of signs; General index.

ISBN

0521360080

LCCN

^^^88015003^

OCLC

17916504
SCSB-10309730

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