Tactile Sign Language

Johanna Mesch

Tactile Sign Language significantly differs from the visual mode of sign language. Based on conversation analysis of deaf-blind people, this book describes how turn-taking and interrogative sentences are marked in tactile sign language. Deaf-blind signers are in continuous contact by holding one another's hands in monologue or dialogue position. In tactile conversation, non-manual characteristics, the essential markers in visual sign languages, are effectively replaced by various hand movements. Paperback 250 pages 2001

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