E-Z American Sign Language (Barron's Easy Way) ; 9780764144585 ; 0764144588

This heavily illustrated, self-teaching guide to ASL--American Sign Language--is useful both for the deaf and for those men and women who teach or work among deaf people. E-Z American Sign Language presents ASL's 10 key grammatical rules and emphasizes the use of "facial grammar" as an important supplement to manual signing. Most of the book's content takes the form of a presentation of more than 800 captioned line drawings that illustrate signs for their equivalent words and then show how to combine signs in order to communicate detailed statements.

Barron's E-Z Series books are updated, and re-formatted editions of Barron's older and perennially popular Easy Way books. Titles in the new E-Z Series feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever. All are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide variety of practical and academic subjects, written on levels that range from senior high school to college-101 standards.

Table of Contents:
Note to the Student
Introduction: American Sign Language
Chapter 1: The Basics
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: The Deaf Community
Chapter 4: One Million New Signs
Chapter 5: Everyday ASL
Chapter 6: Directional Verbs and Communicating
Chapter 7: The Deaf Way
Chapter 8: It's All Relative
Chapter 9: Body- and Gaze-Shifting--Personalizing the Message
Chapter 10: Talking About Time
Chapter 11: Classifiers and the World Games for the Deaf
Chapter 12: Deaf Organizations
Chapter 13: The Deaf and Hearing World
Chapter 14: Poems and Humor
Chapter 15: Traveling with ASL
Appendix
Index