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Title: American Sign Language: A Teacher's Resource Text on Grammar and Culture (American Sign Language Series) by Charlotte Baker-Shenk, Dennis Cokely, Dennis Baker-Shenk ISBN: 0-930323-84-X Publisher: Clerc Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Resource for Teachers & Serious Students
Comment: This book is designed for a teacher as part of the "Green Books" American Sign Language series; however, it is a very useful guide to ASL Grammar and Culture for anyone studying American Sign Language seriously (I, myself, am not a teacher, but have a copy of the book).

I was introduced to the book when I first began learning sign language, and it was very confusing to me. I would have benefited, at the time, much better from an ASL dictionary or simpler sign book. My recommendation to those of you who have just begun learning (or would like to learn) ASL would be NOT to buy this book just YET! Start with something less daunting and sophisticated (after all, it is designed for those already familiar with ASL and preparing a class curriculum).

What the book will give you is an excellent explanation of the sociolinguistic nature of American Sign Language--something you typically will not receive from a ASL Dictionary. For example: how sentences are structured, topicilization, rhetorical questions, relative clauses, expression of time, pronominalization, subject and object usage, the use of classifiers, locatives ... to name a few.

All in all, this is a terrifically detailed, well researched, informative and valuable book; yet, not for a beginning student.

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