E-Z American Sign Language
Title:
E-Z American Sign Language
Author:
Stewart, David Alan, 1954-
ISBN:
9780764144585
Publication Information:
Hauppauge, NY : Barron's Educational Series, ©2011.
Edition:
3rd ed.
Physical Description:
vi, 496 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Revised edition of: American Sign Language the easy way / David A. Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, Jessalyn Little. 2nd ed. c2007.
Includes index.
Abstract:
Overview: This heavily illustrated, self-teaching guide to ASL-American Sign Language-is useful both for the deaf and for those men and women who teach or work among deaf people. E-Z American Sign Language presents ASL's 10 key grammatical rules and emphasizes the use of "facial grammar" as an important supplement to manual signing. Most of the book's content takes the form of a presentation of more than 800 captioned line drawings that illustrate signs for their equivalent words and then show how to combine signs in order to communicate detailed statements. Barron's E-Z Series books are updated, and re-formatted editions of Barron's older and perennially popular Easy Way books. Titles in the new E-Z Series feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever. All are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide variety of practical and academic subjects, written on levels that range from senior high school to college-101 standards.
Contents:
Note to the student -- Introduction: American Sign Language -- Basics: -- Facial grammar -- First ten rules of ASL grammar -- Introduction to the dialogues -- Getting Started: -- Getting started -- Learning ASL -- Courtesy phrases -- Vocabulary building: descriptive signs -- Taking up classes -- Inquiring about class time -- Signs for courses -- Review of lessons 1-7 -- Deaf Community: -- One Million New Signs: -- Everyday ASL: -- Common conversational signs -- Practice signing -- Discussing time -- Leisure activity -- Directional Verbs And Communicating: -- Directional verbs that change the meanings of sentences in space -- Deaf teacher -- Interpreter -- Understanding communication -- Review of lessons 8-14 -- Deaf Way: -- Technology and other adaptations: the deaf way -- Deaf Way: -- Technology and other adaptations: the deaf way -- It's All Relative: -- Opposites -- Relations and places -- Relations, cities and occupations -- Body- And Gaze-Shifting-Personalizing The Message: -- Talking About Time: -- Time line -- Talking about time -- Vocabulary building: time adverbs -- Review of lessons 15-20 -- Classifiers And The World Games For The Deaf: -- Paintbrush of ASL -- Introduction to classifiers: person -- Exploring with classifiers -- Using classifiers in a dialogue -- Going to the world games for the deaf -- Socializing and the world games for the deaf -- Signing and the world games for the deaf -- Review of lessons 21-26 -- Deaf Organizations: -- Deaf And Hearing World: -- Sports and leisure activities: part 1 -- Sports and leisure activities: part 2 -- Dentist and you -- Tooth comes out -- Visit to the doctor -- What the doctor said -- Vocabulary building: health and body related -- Review of lessons 27-33 -- Poems And Humor: -- Traveling with ASL: -- Travel plans -- Travel schedules -- More places to visit -- Review lessons 34-36 -- Appendix -- Index.