COMMENTARY Ethical Issues in the Genetic Study of Deafness I. King Jordan ARTICLES How the Alphabet Came to be Used in a Sign Language Carol A. Padden and Darline Clark Gunsauls Redesigning Literature: The Cinematic Poetics of American Sign Language Poetry H-Dirksen L. Bauman Symbolic Properties of Graphical Actions Ginette Boudreau REVIEW ESSAY Alternative Pathways for the Evolution of Gesture: From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language, by Michael C. Corballis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, 257 pp) Barbara J. King BOOK REVIEW Karen Emmorey, Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights from Sign Language Research (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, 383 pp) David F. Armstrong