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Four experts describe intriguing insights regarding the overlap of language and culture, from the global proliferation of sign languages, to the idea of language as an expression of identity. Featured are Carol Padden, Prof. of Communication and specialist in sign-languages (UC San Diego), David Bel...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Open Agenda Publishing (publsher.)
Other Authors: Bellos, David (on-screen participant.), Berry, Michael, 1974- (on-screen participant.), Mishra, Pankaj (on-screen participant.), Padden, Carol (on-screen participant.), Burton, Howard, 1965- (Director, Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [Canada] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Sign languages throughout the world
  • Linguistic and cultural asymmetry
  • The creation of new sign languages
  • Different types of Chinese
  • Uniquely humorous?
  • Comparing small and large languages.