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Tác giả: Adan R. Penilla
Nhà xuất bản: Penguin Random House
Công ty phát hành: Penguin Random House
ISBN 13: 9781119286073
Tình trạng: Mới
Binding: paperback
Số trang: 368
Năm phát hành: 2016
Kích thước: 231 x 185 x 20 | 476 (gram)
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Grasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the wonderful world of sign language. American Sign Language For Dummies offers you an easy-to-access introduction so you can get your hands wet with ASL, whether you're new to the language or looking for a great refresher. Used predominantly in the United States, ASL provides the Deaf community with the ability to acquire and develop language and communication skills by utilizing facial expressions and body movements to convey and process linguistic information. With American Sign Language For Dummies, the complex visual-spatial and linguistic principles that form the basis for ASL are broken down, making this a great resource for friends, colleagues, students, education personnel, and parents of Deaf children. Grasp the various ways ASL is communicated Get up to speed on the latest technological advancements assisting the Deaf Understand how cultural background and regionalism can affect communication Follow the instructions in the book to access bonus videos online and practice signing along with an instructor If you want to get acquainted with Deaf culture and understand what it's like to be part of a special community with a unique shared and celebrated history and language, American Sign Language For Dummies gets you up to speed on ASL fast.Table of Content 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 D
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