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Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities

Melanie Metzger, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 6


Classifiers in Venezuelan Sign Language

Alejandro Oviedo

Signum Verlag Books


Discourse in Signed Languages

Cynthia B. Roy, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 17


Ears, Eyes, and Hands
Reflections on Language, Literacy, and Linguistics

Deborah L. Wolter


Extraordinary from the Ordinary
Personal Experience Narratives in American Sign Language

Kristin Jean Mulrooney

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 15


Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language

Miako Villanueva

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 19


Frequency of Occurrence and Ease of Articulation of Sign Language Handshapes
The Taiwanese Example

Jean Ann


From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children

Virginia Volterra and
Carol J. Erting, Editors


Gesture in Multiparty Interaction

Emily Shaw

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 24


The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL
Its History and Structure

Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill
In collaboration with Roxanne Dummett, Pamela Baldwin, and Randall Hogue
Foreword by Glenn B. Anderson


A Historical and Etymological Dictionary of American Sign Language
The Origin and Evolution of More Than 500 Signs

Emily Shaw and Yves Delaporte
Illustrations by Carole Marion


Indian Sign Language
An Analysis of Its Grammar

Samar Sinha


International Bibliogaphy of Sign Language

Guido H.G. Joachim and
Siegmund Prillwitz, Editors

Signum Verlag Books


International Sign
Linguistic, Usage, and Status Issues

Rachel Rosenstock and
Jemina Napier, Editors

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 21


It’s Not What You Sign, It’s How You Sign It
Politeness in American Sign Language

Jack Hoza


Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community

Joseph Christopher Hill

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 18


Language in Hand
Why Sign Came Before Speech

William C. Stokoe


Language in Motion
Exploring the Nature of Sign

Jerome D. Schein and
David A. Stewart


Language Policy and Planning for Sign Languages

Timothy G. Reagan

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 16


Learning to See
Teaching American Sign Language as a Second Language

Second Edition

Sherman Wilcox and
Phyllis Perrin Wilcox


Linguistics of American Sign Language
An Introduction

Fifth Edition
Completely Revised and Updated with New DVD

Clayton Valli, Ceil Lucas, Kristin J.
Mulrooney, and Miako Villanueva


Metaphor in American Sign Language

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox


Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities

Ceil Lucas, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 2


Multilingualism and Sign Languages
From the Great Plains to Australia

Ceil Lucas, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 12


My Mother Made Me Deaf
Discourse and Identity in a Deaf Community

Bryan K. Eldredge


Original Signs
Gesture, Sign, and the Sources of Language

David F. Armstrong


Pinky Extension and Eye Gaze
Language Use in Deaf Communities

Ceil Lucas, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 4


Primary Movement in Sign Languages
A Study of Six Languages

Donna Jo Napoli, Mark
Mai, and Nicholas Gaw


The Rising of Lotus Flowers
Self-Education by Deaf Children in Thai Boarding Schools

Charles B. Reilly
and Nipapon Reilly

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 11


Show of Hands
A Natural History of Sign Language

David F. Armstrong


Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children
A Bilingual Introduction

Deborah Chen Pichler, Marlon Kuntze, Diane Lillo-Martin,
Ronice Müller de Quadros, and Marianne Rossi Stumpf


Sign Language Archaeology
Understanding the Historical Roots of American Sign Language

Ted Supalla and
Patricia Clark


Sign Language Research
Theoretical Issues

Ceil Lucas, Editor


Sign Languages in Contact

David Quinto-Pozos, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 13


Signed Language Corpora

Jordan Fenlon and
Julie A. Hochgesang, Editors

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 25


Signed Languages
Discoveries from International Research

Valerie Dively, Melanie Metzger, Sarah
Taub, and Anne Marie Baer, Editors


Signing and Belonging in Nepal

Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway


Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language

Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli
in collaboration with Mary Rose, Alyssa Wulf, Paul Dudis, Susan Schatz, and Laura Sanheim

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 7


Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities

Ceil Lucas, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 1


The Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language
A Study of Language Use and Attitudes

Eyasu Hailu Tamene

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 23


Storytelling and Conversation
Discourse in Deaf Communities

Elizabeth A. Winston, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 5


The Study of Signed Languages
Essays in Honor of William C. Stokoe

David F. Armstrong,
Michael A. Karchmer, and
John Vickrey Van Cleve, Editors


To the Lexicon and Beyond
Sociolinguistics in European Deaf Communities

Mieke Van Herreweghe and
Myriam Vermeerbergen, Editors

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 10


Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages

Ceil Lucas, Editor

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 8


Understanding International Sign
A Sociolinguistic Study

Lori A. Whynot

Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 22


What’s Your Sign for Pizza?
An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language

Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley,
and Clayton Valli