Sign talk
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About This Book
This extensively researched work by a noted naturalist relies largely on the signs and gestures used by Cheyenne Indians. It features an extensive, alphabetically arranged vocabulary of over 1,700 terms — with French and German equivalents — accompanied by 700 illustrations of how to make a specific gesture for each word.
Chapters (70)
- SIGN TALK
- PREFACE
- HADLEY INDIAN SIGN PRINTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ITS ANTIQUITY
- ITS UNIVERSALITY
- AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN
- CODES, ETC.
- DEAF CODE
- THE INDIAN CODE
- A COMPARISON OF THE TWO CODES
- ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SIGN LANGUAGE
- PROPER NAMES
- TO WHAT PURPOSE?
- SYNTAX OF THE SIGN LANGUAGE2
- NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
- VERBS
- ADJECTIVE AND ADVERB
- PREPOSITIONS
- CONJUNCTIONS
- INTERROGATION
- PERIOD OR FULL STOP
- ABSTRACT IDEAS
- OPPOSITION
- EMPHASIS
- PARALLEL OR DUPLICATE SIGNS
- ENUNCIATION OR DELIVERY
- ELEGANCE
- THE CONCEPT AND ITS VALUE
- THE MANUAL ALPHABET
- THE NUMERALS
- THE ORDINALS
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF SIGN LANGUAGE
- THE LORD’S PRAYER
- FATHER ISADORE’S VERSION
- The Lord’s Prayer in Deaf Signs:
- PICTURE-WRITING
- NOTE
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
- Footnotes
- SIGN TALK
- SIGN TALK OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- NATIONALITIES:
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- APPENDIX
- FOOTBALL SIGNALS
- BOOKS BY ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
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