Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the MindSimon & Schuster, 2007 - 354 páginas Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village -- an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness -- is at the heart of "Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind." There, an indigenous sign language has sprung up, used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. It is a language no outsider has been able to decode, until now. A "New York Times" reporter trained as a linguist, Margalit Fox is the only Western journalist to have set foot in this remarkable village. In "Talking Hands, " she follows an international team of scientists that is unraveling this mysterious language. Because the sign language of the village has arisen completely on its own, outside the influence of any other language, it is a living demonstration of the "language instinct," man's inborn capacity to create language. If the researchers can decode this language, they will have helped isolate ingredients essential to all human language, signed and spoken. But as "Talking Hands" grippingly shows, their work in the village is also a race against time, because the unique language of the village may already be endangered. "Talking Hands" offers a fascinating introduction to the signed languages of the world -- languages as beautiful, vital and emphatically human as any other -- explaining why they are now furnishing cognitive scientists with long-sought keys to understanding how language works in the mind. Written in lyrical, accessible prose, "Talking Hands" will captivate anyone interested in language, the human mind and journeys to exotic places. |
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... Klima and Bellugi saw it happen in their own lab . One of their deaf associates needed to talk about " language acquisition , " but at the time , the ASL lexicon had no noun meaning " acquisition . " Before long , it did : the verb GET ...
... Klima and Bellugi ( 1979 ) , 99 . 222 " There was no overlap whatsoever " : Klima and Bellugi ( 1979 ) , 98 . 222 " If this were the nature of the errors ” : Ibid . , 99 . 222 The sign TEA , as it happens , is nearly identical : In many ...
... Klima and Bellugi ( 1979 ) , 125ff . 230 If signs were , as some previous investigators have thought : Newkirk et al . ( 1980 ) , 173 . 230 " Such slips , " the four authors write : Klima and Bellugi ( 1979 ) , 145 , in a chapter ...
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Introduction | 1 |
In the Village of the Deaf | 5 |
What Is This Wonderful Language? | 15 |
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