Completely reorganized to reflect the growing intricacy of the study of ASL linguistics, the 5th edition presents 26 units in seven parts. Part One: Introduction presents a revision of Defining Language and an entirely new unit, Defining Linguistics....

This introductory text celebrates another dimension of diversity in the United States Deaf community – variation in the way American Sign Language (ASL) is used by Deaf people all across the nation. The different ways people have of saying or signin...

The culmination of a seven-year project, this volume provides a complete description of American Sign Language (ASL) variation. For four decades, linguists have studied how people from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the...