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Book Hand Talk

Download or read book Hand Talk written by Jeffrey E. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a unique case of sign language that served as an international language among numerous Native American nations not sharing a common spoken language. The book contains the most current descriptions of all levels of the language from phonology to discourse, as well as comparisons with other sign languages.

Book Native American Sign Language

Download or read book Native American Sign Language written by Madeline Olsen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Sign Language

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Tomkins
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-04-20
  • ISBN : 0486130940
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book Indian Sign Language written by William Tomkins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to communicate without words with these authentic signs. Learn over 525 signs, developed by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and others. Book also contains 290 pictographs of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes.

Book North American Indian Sign Language

Download or read book North American Indian Sign Language written by Karen Liptak and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting introduction to sign language in several North American tribes.

Book Sign Language Among North American Indians

Download or read book Sign Language Among North American Indians written by Garrick Mallery and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary. The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by many of them, naturally directed the first researches to that continent, with the result that a large body of facts procured from collaborators and by personal examination has now been gathered and classified.

Book Sign Language Among North American Indians

Download or read book Sign Language Among North American Indians written by Garrick Mallery and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary. The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by many of them, naturally directed the first researches to that continent, with the result that a large body of facts procured from collaborators and by personal examination has now been gathered and classified.

Book Origin of the Earth and Moon

Download or read book Origin of the Earth and Moon written by Shirley Silver and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Book The Indian Sign Language

Download or read book The Indian Sign Language written by William Philo Clark and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under orders from General Sheridan, Captain W. P. Clark spent over six years among the Plains Indians and other tribes studying their sign language. In addition to an alphabetical cataloguing of signs, Clark gives valuable background information on many tribes and their history and customs. Considered the classic of its field, this book provides, entirely in prose form, how to speak the language entirely through sign language, without one diagram provided.

Book North American Indian Dances and Rituals

Download or read book North American Indian Dances and Rituals written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color 38 authentic scenes of traditional tribal dances and rituals: Rio Grande Pueblo Deer Dance, Zia clown dancers, Hopi Snake Dance, many others.

Book American Indian Life

Download or read book American Indian Life written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study, first published in 1922, presents the writings of A. L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, Clark Wissler, Paul Radin, Truman Michelson, and other prominent anthropologists. The distinguished career of Elsie Clews Parsons and its debt to Franz Boas are considered by Joan Mark in an introduction that also explores the message behind the twenty-seven stories in American Indian Life.

Book American Indian Languages

Download or read book American Indian Languages written by Lyle Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.

Book The Languages of Native North America

Download or read book The Languages of Native North America written by Marianne Mithun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.

Book Universal Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America

Download or read book Universal Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America written by William Tomkins and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.

Book Sign language among North American Indians compared with that among other peoples and deaf mutes

Download or read book Sign language among North American Indians compared with that among other peoples and deaf mutes written by Garrick Mallery and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating, wide-ranging study describes and illustrates signs used for specific words, phrases, sentences, and even dialogues. Scores of diagrams show precise movements of body and hands for signing.

Book Sign Language of the North American Indians  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book Sign Language of the North American Indians Illustrated Edition written by Garrick Mallery and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary. The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by many of them, naturally directed the first researches to that continent, with the result that a large body of facts procured from collaborators and by personal examination has now been gathered and classified.

Book Indian Signs and Signals

Download or read book Indian Signs and Signals written by George Fronval and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives

Download or read book Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives written by Adrianna Link and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society’s library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.