Way of the sign

Abstract We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challenges to t...

Tabak has created a fascinating exploration of a unique and uniquely beautiful North American language. The story begins in 18th century France in the first schools to use signed l...

Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of pragmatism and of semiotics, proposed a theory of sign that plays a key role in pragmatist philosophy and serves as a foundation for the theor...

In clinical neuromuscular medicine, clinical signs are very important for elucidation of the right diagnosis. There is nothing better than videos to demonstrate these signs and the...

Abstract What are ethnic groups? Are Deaf people who sign American Sign Language (ASL) an ethnic group? The book brings deaf studies, history, cultural anthropology,...

This chapter examines the experiences of working wives and mothers (“Mercy”/“Nyasha”) as the epitome of middle-class lifestyles, virtues, and contradictions in Harare. Mercy is the...

This chapter considers the elitism in digital media. During the early years of the Internet in the 1990s, there were high expectations for new media and harsh criticism for legacy ...