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Quick and easy phrases in ASL for daily life

Perfect Phrases for American Sign Language provides 150 essential phrases for hearing-impaired users of ASL and those who interact with them. ASL expert Barbara Bernstein Fant--carrying on the work of her late husband Lou--and illustrator Betty Miller make it easy for you to pick up key signs for everyday communication without having to have prior knowledge of signing. This handy reference is perfect for comfortably and confidently communicating with loved ones, coworkers, patients, or anyone who uses ASL.

Wanting to say simple things like these but not being able to is frustrating and disheartening--but learning how to communicate can be easy and fun This book is a basic guide to the alphabet, vocabulary, and techniques it takes to connect using American Sign Language. Whether signing out of necessity or learning for the sake of growing, you will enjoy this practical primer. After reading this book, you will be able to use American Sign Language in a social, educational, or professional setting.

Whether the goal is to...

The sixth volume in the Studies in Interpretation Series examines the new profession of Deaf translators and interpreters by analyzing their rendition of English television broadcasts in sign language compared to that of hearing interpreters.

-Completely Revised with New Signs and Lessons
-Each Sign Illustration Features Sentences in English and ASL Order
-New Class Activities and New Student Activities for Homework or Quizzes
-New Facts about American Sign Language Grammar and Deaf Culture

Now, the bestselling American Sign Language textbook Signs of the Times has been completely revised and updated. The new, second edition is an excellent beginner's American Sign Language textbook designed for use in the classroom or at home. Organized into 44 lessons, it presents more than 1,300 signs...

Next time you're signing with your friends, drop the ASL textbook formality and start flashing the signs they don't teach in any classroom, including:
- cool slang
- funny insults
- explicit sex terms
- raw swear words

Dirty Sign Language teaches casual everyday words and expressions like:
- Peace out
- Asshole.
- Bit me
- Dumbfuck
- Boner
- I'm hung like a horse.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to.

In the Yearbook of Morphology 2004 a number of papers is devoted to the topic morphology and linguistic typology . These papers were presented at the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Catania, in September 2003. Within the...

Signed language interpreting is about access, states author Jeremy L. Brunson at the outset of his new book, and no manifestation of access for deaf people can be considered more complex than video relay services (VRS). In Video Relay Service Interpreters: Intricacies of Sign Language Access, Brunson delineates exactly how complicated the service can be, first by analyzing sign language interpreting as a profession and its relation to both hearing and deaf clients. He describes how sign language interpreters function in Deaf communities and how regulatory processes imposed by VRS...

In this study, the authors describe how they created a new way to categorize sign languages by direction of movement, thereby establishing the relationship between six distinct sign languages without depending on grammar.