recent popular introductions to ASL

[Doug McLean]

In message <s5cb0678.008 at smtpgate.dragonsys.com>, Mark Mandel
<Mark at dragonsys.com> writes
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>Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:00:15 +0100 (BST)
>From: Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
>Subject: ASL
>
>I'm preparing a second edition of my popular book Language: The
>Basics, and I'm putting in some new material on sign languages.
>Therefore I want to suggest some suitable further reading.  For
>British Sign Language, this is easy, since there are several popular
>introductions to BSL available in bookshops over here.  But our
>bookshops don't stock works on American Sign Language.  So, can
>anybody recommend (with full references, please) one or two fairly
>recent popular introductions to ASL?  Thanks.
>
>Larry Trask
>COGS
>University of Sussex
>Brighton BN1 9QH
>England
>
Obviously not heard of us! I have sent a catalogue, which should answer
all his needs - Sign linguistically, that is.

Doug
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