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American Sign Language For Dummies + Videos

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.01.2017

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

368

Maße (L/B/H)

23,6/18,4/2,5 cm

Gewicht

488 g

Auflage

3. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-28607-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.01.2017

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

368

Maße (L/B/H)

23,6/18,4/2,5 cm

Gewicht

488 g

Auflage

3. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-28607-3

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: American Sign Language For Dummies
  • Introduction 1

    About This Book 1

    Foolish Assumptions 2

    Icons Used in This Book 3

    Beyond the Book 4

    Where to Go from Here 4

    Part 1: American Sign Language and You 5

    Chapter 1: You Already Know a Little Sign 7

    Discovering Signs That Look like What They Mean 8

    Building on the Basics of Sign: Gestures and Expression 9

    Spelling with your fingers 9

    Shaping up those hands 12

    Benefiting with body language 14

    Gazing at the face of expression 15

    Chapter 2: Signing Grammar Basics 17

    Explaining the Parts of Speech 17

    Distinguishing between noun/verb pairs 18

    Modifying with adjectives and adverbs 20

    Talking Tenses 22

    Structuring Sentences 24

    Subjecting yourself to nouns and verbs in simple sentences 24

    Placing subjects and objects 24

    Exclaiming in Simple Sentences 31

    Signing Conditional Sentences 36

    Personification: The Secret of Agents 37

    Clarifying with Classifiers 39

    Chapter 3: Starting to Sign Basic Expressions 41

    Initiating a Conversation 41

    Attracting someone's attention 42

    Using greetings and closings 43

    Getting Acquainted 47

    Sharing feelings and emotions 49

    Connecting your thoughts 52

    Talking about where you're from 53

    Acting the Part: Constructed Dialogue and Constructed Action 62

    Constructed Dialogue 62

    Constructed Action 63

    Chapter 4: Getting Your Numbers and Times Straight 65

    Counting on Numbers 65

    Getting from one to ten with cardinal numbers 67

    Ordering ordinal numbers 69

    Signing phone numbers and the like 70

    Talking about Time 70

    Signing calendar dates 74

    Chapter 5: Signing at Home 79

    Handling Signs about Your Home 79

    Touring all the rooms 83

    Furnishing your home 86

    Hanging Out for the Holidays 92

    Teaching the Tots 95

    Keeping Track of Your Subjects in Space 97

    Part 2: Refining Your ASL 99

    Chapter 6: Asking Questions and Making Small Talk 101

    Signing Key Questions: Six WS, One H 102

    Discussing Family, Friends, and More 107

    Family and friends 107

    Relating where you live and work 111

    Using Possessives and Pronouns When Chatting 123

    Personal pronouns and possessives 123

    Demonstrative pronouns 125

    Chapter 7: Asking for Directions 129

    Finding Your Way 129

    Looking to Natural Landmarks 135

    Searching the Streets 138

    Transporting Yourself 141

    Directing Your Sentences with Conjunctions 143

    Chapter 8: Dining and Going to the Market 147

    Eating Three Square Meals a Day 147

    Having breakfast 152

    Munching on lunch 154

    Enjoying dinner 159

    Dining Out 163

    Ethnic food around town 164

    Don't forget the drinks! 166

    Attention, Shoppers! 170

    Signing specialty stores 170

    Getting a good deal 172

    Chapter 9: Shopping Made Easy 175

    Clothes for All Seasons 175

    The winter look 176

    Fall fashion 180

    Spring style 182

    Summer suits 186

    Clothing by color 188

    All about Money 194

    Shopping Superlatives and Comparisons 199

    Chapter 10: The Signer About Town 203

    Making Plans 203

    Going to the movies 206

    Going to the theater 211

    Going to the museum 213

    Selecting Your Social Station 215

    Chapter 11: Takin' Care of Business 221

    Occupying Yourself with Occupations 221

    Sorting Office Supplies 227

    Getting to Work 230

    Chapter 12: Recreation and the Great Outdoors 235

    Exercising Your Right to Recreate 235

    Getting into the competitive spirit 236

    Setting out solo 242

    Playing Indoor Games 246

    Having Fun with Hobbies 248

    Seeing the Night Sky 251

    Getting the Weather Report 254

    Asking Rhetorical Questions in ASL 259

    Chapter 13: Here's to Your Health 263

    Going to the Doctor 263

    Signaling medical personnel 263

    Figuring out how you feel 265

    Expressing medical terms 267

    Describing Ailments and Treatments 269

    Pointing to Body Parts 272

    Handling Emergencies 277

    Part 3: Looking at Life Through Deaf Eyes 281

    Chapter 14: The Deaf Community and Deaf Etiquette 283

    Digging into Sign's Past 284

    Examining When and How ASL began 284

    Facing the Challenges of the Deaf Community 285

    Putting the past behind us 285

    You've come a long way, baby 286

    The Deaf as an Ethnic Group 288

    Understanding Deaf culture 289

    Knowing who falls into the Deaf cultural community 289

    Living as bilingual/bicultural people 290

    Being Sensitive to Being Deaf 291

    Living together in a hearing world 291

    Getting the Deaf perspective 292

    Participating in the Deaf Community 292

    Finding your place in the Deaf community 293

    Communicating with new Deaf friends for the first time 294

    Questions you shouldn't ask 295

    Interpreting for the Deaf Community 295

    Chapter 15: Soliciting Social Justice 297

    Oralists and Manualists Meet in Milan 298

    The Deaf Have It 299

    Rejecting Language Oppression 299

    Movers and Shakers 300

    Chapter 16: Using Technology to Communicate 301

    Using Videophones: Can You See Me Now? 301

    Communicating with videophones 302

    What to expect when using a video relay service 303

    Keeping quiet what is private 304

    Using Other Communication Methods 304

    Texting 24/7 304

    Chatting visually 305

    Calling through Captioning 305

    Part 4: the Part of Tens 307

    Chapter 17: Ten Tips to Help You Sign like a Pro 309

    Watch Yourself and Others Sign 309

    Discover Multiple Signs for Communicating One Thing 310

    Practice Your Signing - with Others 310

    Always Fingerspell a Name First 310

    Adjust Your Eyes; Everyone's Signing Is Different 310

    Use Facial Expressions like Vocal Inflections 311

    Journal Your Progress 311

    Get Some Signing Space 312

    Don't Jump the Gun 312

    Watch the Face, Not the Hands 312

    Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Pick Up Sign Quickly 313

    Volunteer at a Residential School for the Deaf 313

    Volunteer at Local Deaf Clubs 314

    Attend Deaf Social Functions 314

    Make Deaf Friends 315

    Assist Deaf Ministries 315

    Attend Conferences for Interpreters 315

    Work at Camps for the Deaf 315

    Attend Silent Weekends 316

    Go to Deaf Workshops and Deaf Conferences 316

    Watch Sign Language Videos 317

    Chapter 19: Ten Popular Deaf Expressions 319

    Swallowed the Fish 319

    Train Gone 320

    Pea Brain 320

    Rats!/Darn! 321

    I Hope 322

    Your Guess Is as Good as Mine 322

    Cool! 322

    Oh No! 323

    That's Superb! 323

    That's Pretty Straight-Laced 324

    Wow! 324

    Index 325