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The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary DVD

The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary DVD

Now, the signs from the bestselling American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary are available on DVD. The Handshape Dictionary organizes more than 1,400 ASL signs by 40 basic handshapes, and the new DVD features a diverse cast of native signers forming all of them. Each sign depicted on the DVD includes a complete list of English glosses and synonyms from The Handshape Dictionary for reference.This fully searchable, full-color DVD enables users to survey each of the handshape groups for a specific sign. They not only can find the corresponding English words for the sign, they will benefit from the added dimension of seeing exactly how the sign is formed from beginning to end. They can repeat a sign on the DVD as necessary to learn precisely how to form it themselves. The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary DVD presents students, sign language teachers, and deaf and hearing people alike with a perfect complement to The Handshape Dictionary to enhance communicati (more…)

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Hypersign 4.0 Dictionary of American Sign Language

Hypersign 4.0 Dictionary of American Sign Language

Learn the fastest growing language in America withHypersign 4.0! Product Information Why HyperSign?  Many texts and videotaped lexicons of ASL exist. Thetexts are one dimensional and do not adequately illustrate the motion or thechanges in meaning which facial expressions add to the sign. While video tapesadd motion and the facial expressions, their inherent linear nature is asignifican

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The New Oxford American Dictionary (Hardcover)

The New Oxford American Dictionary

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*Starred Review* Recently there has been publicity about young lexicographers and their work with major American dictionaries. Erin McKean, 34, is the editor of the second edition of The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) and continues the tradition of publishing a well-researched and current source of U.S. English. The first edition, with different editors, was published in 2001. What has changed in four years?Words, of course, have been added and deleted. There are more than 2,000 new entries. Google and weblog are now in, information superhighway is out. The type appears larger, and a line or two has been added to the brief country histories to bring them up to date. Another addition is the useful feature “The Right Word,” which discusses synonyms. An example is the entry for attack, which, in addition to a half-column definition, has another half-column discussing the differences in meanings for the synonyms assault, besiege, charge, molest, and s (more…)