 3:7 Tuesday, July 31,
2001Not To Be Ignored: The
"Complexity of Signed Language"
In
an unusual joint review,
Library Journal praised two of Gallaudet University Press’s books in its June
15, 2001 issue. Signed Languages: Discoveries from International Research,
edited by Valerie Dively, Melanie Metzger, Sarah Taub, and Anne Marie Baer, and
William C. Stokoe’s Language in Hand: Why Sign Came Before Speech are
both “highly recommended” says Library Journal. Read
the complete review for the the
two books (Signed Languages and
Language
in Hand) here.
Signed
Languages presents the freshest, most innovative work from the sixth
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research conference, which took place in
1998. The 13 papers in this integrated volume focus upon previously
ignored international signed languages, including the signed languages of the
Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, Venezuela, and northern Nigeria. You can read
an excerpt here and also order
Signed Languages at your exclusive
subscriber rate of 20% off the regular price and discover how these renowned
scholars examine in
detail the
“complexity of signed
language.”
In
Language in Hand the late William
C. Stokoe answers the provocative question,
“Did
the first humans speak or sign?”
According
to Stokoe, past Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University
and the founding editor of Sign
Language Studies, “signed
language preceded spoken language.”
In order to support his proposed order
of linguistic development, Stokoe uses the following four approaches : “exploring the unique ability of visible signs to
resemble what they represent, comparing human anatomy involved in gesture and
speech to the anatomy of chimpanzees and other primates, examining signed
languages still in use today among both hearing and hearing-impaired
communities, and observing linguistic development in children.”
Read Stokoe’s preface and order Language in Hand.
 Gallaudet
University Press Institute, the educational division of Gallaudet University
Press, is staging an international conference “Dictionaries and the
Standardization of Languages” on November 7–8, 2001, at the Gallaudet
University Kellogg Conference Center in Washington, D.C. For
more information and to register, go to Dictionaries.gallaudet.edu.
CHOICE
lauds Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to the Canon
in its July 2001 issue stating that Cynthia Peters “has
produced a truly seminal work of tremendous value to a variety of readers
outside the Deaf community itself: sociologists, linguists, and those in the
comparative literature field.” Read
the
complete review
and order Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to the Canon.
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