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Article: Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language
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- Sign Language Studies
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright American Annals of the Deaf Summer 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language by Scott K. Liddell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 398 pp. Hardcover, $85.00, paperback, $34.99. ISBN 0-521816-20-3 [hardcover]. ISBN 0521016509 [paperback]).
WHEN LINGUISTS BEGAN their epic analysis of ASL as a language in the 19605, a journey guided by two major books (Stokoe 1960, Klima and Bellugi 1979), the prevailing folk view could be summed up by the expression "sign is gesture." The insights accumulated by Stokoe and extended by Klima and Bellugi belied this folk belief, however. The belief has by now been decisively defeated, and the linguistic bona fides of ASL are established beyond all doubt. Subsequent ...