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01 Introduction>>

1.1 Core Issues plus 3 section

1.2 The Quizzes

02 The Linguistics of Sign Language>>

2.1 Linguistics terminology

2.2 What is Sign Linguistics?

2.3 Why is Sign Linguistics im

2.4 Who uses Sign Linguistics>>

2.41 More examples: people who

2.4.2 How people use Sign Ling

2.5 What is Linguistic knowled

2.6 Quiz Questions

03 What is British Sign Langua>>

3.1 What is not BSL?

3.2 Paget Gorman Sign System>>

3.2.1 Examples: Paget Gorman S

3.2.2 Examples: Paget Gorman C

3.2.3 Examples: Paget Gorman G

3.2.4 Examples: Paget Gorman A

3.3 Cued Speech>>

3.3.1 Examples: Cued Speech

3.4 Signed English

3.5 S.E.E. Signing Exact Engli>>

3.5.1 Examples: S.E.E

3.6 S.S.E. Sign Supported Engl>>

3.6.1 Example: S.S.E

3.7.1 Examples: Makaton

3.8 Differences between BSL an

04 How does BSL fit into the W>>

4.1 BSL similar to some Spoken>>

4.1.1 Adjectives

4.1.2 Verbs using Classifiers

4.1.3 Quiz Questions

4.1.4 Quiz Answers

4.2 BSL and Celtic Languages

4.3 BSL as an Unwritten Langua>>

4.3.1 Features of Unwritten La

4.3.2 Functional difference in

4.4 BSL as a Minority Language

05 The Structure of Words, Gestures and >>

5.1 Quiz Question - Type of Referents

5.2 Features of 'well formed' signs

5.3 Esatblished and Productive signs

5.4 Classifiers

5.5 Visual Motivation in BSL

5.6 Arbitrary signs

5.7 Manual Alphabet

5.8 Changing signs

5.9 Visually Motivated signs

5.10 Phonemes and phonology

5.11 Phonology in BSL

06 Morphemes in BSL>>

6.1 Example Morpheme: SISTER

6.2 Lexical & Grammatical Morphemes

6.3 Morphemic Structures

6.4 BSL/English differences

6.5 Free and Bound Morphemes

6.6 Compound Signs>>

6.6.1 Example: BSL Compounds

6.6.2 Sequential Compounds

6.6.3 Simultaneous Compounds

6.6.4 Quiz Question

07 Verb Types in BSL>>

7.1 Spatial Verbs

7.2 Classifier Verbs

7.3 Handling Classifiers

7.5 Location on Body

7.6 Agreement Verbs

7.7 Plain Verbs

7.8.1 Answer - Agreement Verbs

7.8.2 Answer - Plain Verbs

7.8.3 Answer - Spatial Verbs

08 Language Change>>

8.1 Internal Changes

8.2 External Language Change

8.3 Generational differences in English

8.4 Generational differences in BSL

8.5 Impact on the languages

8.6 Impact of families

8.7 Educational Influences

8.8 Old and New English words

8.9 Technology and changes in BSL

8.10 Changing Concepts

09 BSL Borrowing from English>>

9.1 Loan Translation

9.2 Visual Similarities

9.4 Fingerspelling

9.5 Single Letter Signs

9.8 English influence on BSL syntax

10 Sign Language Storytelling and Narrat>>

10.1 Quiz Questions>>

10.1.1 Quiz Answers

10.2 Role-shift

10.3 role-shift: Narrator and Characters

10.4 Use of Established Signs

10.5 Identifying Characters

10.6 Guide to Good Storytelling

10.7 Tips for Successful Storytelling

11 Humour in BSL>>

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Anthropormorphisation

11.4 Intensified Signs

11.5 Gradual Changes

11.6 Simultaneous Signs

12 Sign Language Poetry>>

12.1 Repetition

12.3 Poetry Quiz

12.4 Neologisms

13 Mouth Patterns>>

13.1 Mouthings & Quiz

13.2 Quiz continued

13.3 Different Uses in BSL

13.4 Mouthing with Signs

13.6 Mouthing Gestures

13.7 Multi-channel signs

13.9 Morphological Information

13.10 Mouth Gestures & Movements

14 Rules of Fingerspelling>>

14.2 Proper nouns

14.3 Three-letter words

14.4 Longer words

14.5 The letter C

14.6 Open vs closed letters

14.7 New L, O and I

15 Questions & Negation>>

15.1 Yes-No Questions

15.2 Changed word order

15.3 WH- questions

15.4 Rhetorical questions

15.5 Negation in BSL

15.6 Grammatical negatives versus

15.7 Non-manual

15.8 Double negatives

16 Socially unacceptable signs>>

16.2 Unacceptable Language

16.3 Taboo Topics and Taboo Signs

16.4 Taboo Signs

16.7 Expletives

16.8 Euphemisms

16.9 BSL Euphemisms

16.10 Politically Correct Signs

16.12 New Signs

17 Marking Time in BSL>>

17.1 Time Lines

18.2 Proform continued

18.3 Proform continued

18.5 Pronouns in BSL

18.6 Possessive pronouns

18.7 Classifiers

18.8 Predicates

19.1 Adjectives

19.3 Agreement Verbs

19.6 Body part classifiers

19.8 Bound Morphemes

19.10 Citation Form

19.11 Classifiers

19.12 Classifier Handshapes

19.13 Classifier Predicates

19.14 Compound Signs

19.15 Conventionalised

19.16 Cued Speech

19.17 Dervational Morphemes

19.18 Ego verbs

19.19 Established Signs

19.20 External Changes

19.21 Fingerspelling

19.22 Free Morphemes

19.23 Grammatical Morpheme

19.24 Handling Classifiers

19.25 Indexical Signs

19.26 Inflectional Morphology

19.27 Internal Changes

19.28 Internal Movement

19.29 Lexical Morphemes

19.30 Loan Translation

19.33 Manual Alphabet

19.35 Minimal Pairs

19.36 Minority Language

19.37 Monomorphemic

Cultural notes>>

1 Introduction to BSL and the Deaf Commu

2 Right or Left Hand?

3 Non-manual Features of BSL

4 Fingerspelling in BSL

5 How Deaf People Identify Themselves

6 Getting Attention in the Deaf Communit

7 BSL QED Project

9 Pointing in BSL

10 Describing People

11 Referring to Persons, Objects or Plac

12 Telecommunications for Deaf Persons (>>

13 Identifying Objects

14 Intermarriage Among Deaf People

15 Role shifts in Conversation

16 BSL on Television

17 Regional Variation

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