Download or read book Sign and Culture written by William C. Stokoe and published by Linstok Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of papers that have appeared in the journal "Sign Language Studies" between 1972 and 1979. The aim is to provide the reader with some knowledge of the world as signers see it. The book is for academic decision-makers, teachers and parents of deaf students, as well as the intellectually curious. Following an introductory essay, the chapters are arranged in four sections: (1) The first section addresses the broad question "What is Sign Language?" with articles about the language merging situation involving manually encoded English and American Sign Language, as well as other aspects of sign language, including humor and foreign sign languages. (2) The second section on "Learning and Using Sign Language" gets deeply into a psycholinguistic vein, and presents findings on sign language acquisition and learning. (3) The third section, "(Sign) Language and Culture," relates sign language use and particular attitudes and policies to the deaf community. (4) The fourth chapter reinforces the idea that language is not all biological nor all socio-cultural, and applies this idea to sign language acquisition. (Author/PJM)
Download or read book Forbidden Signs written by Douglas C. Baynton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Time of the Sign written by Dean MacCannell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Sign Language written by Charlotte Lee Baker-Shenk and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The videocassettes illustrate dialogues for the text it accompanies, and also provides ASL stories, poems and dramatic prose for classroom use. Each dialogue is presented three times to allow the student to "converse with" each signer. Also demonstrates the grammar and structure of sign language. The teacher's text on grammar and culture focuses on the use of three basic types of sentences, four verb inflections, locative relationships and pronouns, etc. by using sign language. The teacher's text on curriculum and methods gives guidelines on teaching American Sign Language and Structured activities for classroom use.
Download or read book Nike Culture written by Robert Goldman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-12-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first to take an in-depth look at how an advertising image works. It situates the Nike swoosh logo in terms of political economy, sociology, culture and semiotics. Nike Culture describes and deconstructs the themes and structures of Nike's advertising, outlines the contradictions between image and practice, and explores the logic of the sign economy. In addition, by focusing on issues revolving around representations of race, class and gender, the desire for both community and recognition, and the construction of sport as a spiritual enterprise, the book offers insights into the cultural contradictions embedded in sports culture.
Download or read book Signs in Contemporary Culture written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sign Thought and Culture written by Marcel Danesi and published by Canadian Scholars Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sign, Thought, and Culture is an introduction to the science of semiotics. This unique text is written in clear, accessible language with frequent references to everyday life so that the reader is able to develop an appreciation of how signs allow us to understand the social world and communicate with others. Readers will enjoy the way in which the book shows them how to decipher the hidden messages delivered by television and other media. There is a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography for further study.
Download or read book The Sign of the Burger written by Joe L. Kincheloe and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sign of the Burger examines how McDonald's captures our imagination, both as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture, and as a symbol of the strength of consumerism.
Download or read book Learning American Sign Language to Experience the Essence of Deaf Culture written by Lisa Koch and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text broadens students' knowledge of the Deaf community and Deaf culture. It also gives important and meaningful context to American Sign Language.
Download or read book Deaf Culture Our Way written by Roy K. Holcomb and published by Dawnsign Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4th rev. ed. of the original: Hazards of deafness.
Download or read book Deaf Culture 101 written by Gilda Toby Ganezer and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Sign Language comes with Deaf Culture, which is a BIG part of millions and millions of Americans today.This visual reference photo book will take every reader through the eyes of Gilda Toby Ganezer, who is a Deaf ASL professor, filmmaker and life-long activist. You will learn the cultures associated with ASL, the Deaf Community and ASL Interpreting. This book received over 100,000 likes on Facebook!Features:- over 55 lessons about Deaf Culture, ASL & ASL interpreting- over 525 questions for classroom use and discussion- hundreds of visual references designed for studying and teaching
Download or read book The Pan African Nation written by Andrew Apter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
Download or read book Reading Between the Signs Workbook written by Anna Mindess and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2004-11-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful workbook functions as a companion and supplement to Anna Mindess's earlier book, Reading Between the Signs: A Cultural Guide for Sign Language Interpreters, a recognized classic text for sign language interpreters and ASL students. It is arranged to correspond with the theory presented in the book and expands its focus to the relativity of politeness and the distinction between direct and indirect communication styles, both of which are important elements in comparing Deaf and mainstream cultures. Hands-on exercises allow students to better comprehend the sometimes-puzzling differences of culturally appropriate behavior. The book also helps students explore their own culture as well as the American Deaf culture in ways that reveal the differences between the two. Role play, discussion topics and critical incidents increase first-hand understanding of the relationship between the Deaf and Hearing communities.
Download or read book Sign systems of Trypillia Cucuteni culture written by Taras Tkachuk and published by Oleksandr Melnyk. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a compelling exploration of Tripillia-Cucuteni ornaments in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in semiotics, cultural studies, Eneonitic history and archeology. The work is recommended for publication by the Academic Council of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
Download or read book Signs and Voices written by Kristin A. Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers address in this collection all of the factors changing the cultural landscape for deaf people, including cochlear implants, genetic engineering, mainstreaming, and other ethical dilemmas.
Download or read book Origins of Semiosis written by Winfried Nöth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semiotics and Visual Culture written by Deborah Lee Smith-Shank and published by National Art Education Assn. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
