Readership: This volume will be an invaluable resource to students and professionals in psychology, linguistics, and philosophy.
David F. Armstrong, Editor, Sign Language Studies, Gallaudet University, USA, and Sherman E. Wilcox, Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, USA
1: Grasping Language: Sign and the Evolution of Language 2: Language in the Wild: Paleontological and Primatological Evidence for Gestural Origins 3: Gesture, Sign, and Speech 4: Gesture, Sign, and Grammar: The Ritualization of Language 5: Conceptual Spaces and Embodied Actions 6: The Gesture-Language Interface 7: Invention of Visual Languages