Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language

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Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language Rankin_FM_Pgs i-x.indd 1 10/18/2013 9:38:25 AM Kristin Jean Mulrooney, General Editor VOLUME 1 Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities VOLUME 2 Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities VOLUME 3 Deaf Children in Public Schools VOLUME 4 Pinky Extension and Eye Gaze: Language Use in Deaf Communities VOLUME 5 Storytelling and Conversation: Discourse in Deaf Communities VOLUME 6 Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities VOLUME 7 Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language VOLUME 8 Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages VOLUME 9 Language and the Law in Deaf Communities VOLUME 10 To the Lexicon and Beyond: Sociolinguistics in European Deaf Communities VOLUME 11 The Rising of Lotus Flowers: Self-Education by Deaf Children in Thai Boarding Schools VOLUME 12 Multilingualism and Sign Languages: From the Great Plains to Australia VOLUME 13 Sign Languages in Contact VOLUME 14 Hearing, Mother Father Deaf: Hearing People in Deaf Families VOLUME 15 Extraordinary from the Ordinary: Personal Experience Narratives in American Sign Language VOLUME 16 Language Policy and Planning for Sign Languages VOLUME 17 Discourse in Signed Languages VOLUME 18 Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community VOLUME 19 Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language Rankin_FM_Pgs i-x.indd 2 10/18/2013 9:38:25 AM Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language Miako N. P. Rankin G A L L A U d E t U n i V E r S i t y P r E S S Washington, DC Rankin_FM_Pgs i-x.indd 3 10/18/2013 9:38:26 AM Sociolinguistics in deaf Communities A Series Edited by Kristin Jean Mulrooney Gallaudet University Press Washington, DC 20002 http://gupress.gallaudet.edu© 2013 by Gallaudet University All rights reserved. Published 2013 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN 1-56368-573-6; 978-1-56368-573-6 ISSN 1080-5494 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences–Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Rankin_FM_Pgs i-x.indd 4 10/18/2013 9:38:26 AM ...