Displaying 1 of 1 2007 Format: Book Author: Fox, Margalit. Title: Talking hands : what sign language reveals about the mind / Margalit Fox. Publisher, Date: New York ; London : Simon & Schuster, ©2007. Description: viii, 354 pages ; 25 cm Summary: Documents life in a remote Bedouin village in Israel whose residents communicate through a unique method of sign language used by both hearing and non-hearing citizens, and offers insight into the relationship between language and the human mind. Subjects: Sign language -- Psychological aspects. Psycholinguistics. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index. Also issued online. Contents: Introduction -- In the village of the deaf -- "What is this wonderful language?" -- The road to Al-Sayyid -- sign-language instinct -- Starry night -- The atoms of sign -- The house of blue roses -- Everyone here speaks sign language -- Hyssop -- The web of words -- The house built from the second story down -- Grammar in midair -- Hassan's house -- A sign in mind -- The house of twenty children -- The signing brain -- In a wet place -- Afterword : It takes a village -- A note on sources -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Web Site: Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2007017624 ISBN: 9780743247122 9780743247139 0743247132 0743247124 9780743247122 Other Number: 124036228 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 198680 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 419 Fox Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
