Screen LibraryThe gestural origin of language
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Perspectives on deafness |
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| Carrier Form: | 151 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0195163486 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780195163483 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | H026 |
| CLC: | H026.3 |
| Call Number: | H026.3/A735 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-146) and index. Prologue : vision of voice -- Grasping language : sign and the evolution of language -- Language in the wild : Paleontological and primatological evidence for gestural origins -- Gesture, sign, and speech -- Gesture, sign, and grammar : the ritualization of language -- Conceptual spaces and embodied actions -- The gesture-language interface -- Invention of visual languages -- Epilogue : a vision of unity. |