A Field Guide for Sign Language Research

Sign Language Studies 24 Announcing: A FIELD GUIDE FOR SIGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH by William Stokoe & Rolf Kuschel This long-awaited handbook will meet the needs of the field researcher who encounters a group using an unfamiliar sign language in their everyday communication as well as the needs of the curious student who wants to supplement vocabulary material learned in a classroom with the give and take of real interaction. The GUIDE covers basic issues from equipment and methods to ethics and concludes with suggestions for getting the most from data and reports. The emphasis is anthropological: the culture as well as the language of the signing group is central. Kuschel's experience in the Solomon Islands ensures that the advice in the GUIDE is practical and tested. Stokoe's long connection with the Deaf Community in the United States broadens the GUIDE's base. Sentences for translation, a cultural item checklist, and a vocabulary based on the Swadesh language chronology tests are included. With all this, the GUIDE is small and light enough to go anywhere the backpack and notebook go. Pub. July 1979. 32 pp. Paperback. ISBN 0-932130-06-2 Price $2.50, plus .75 shipping charge Order from: LINSTOK PRESS, INC. 9306 Mintwood Street Silver Spring, MD 20901 ...