<b>Sign language</b> : The study of deaf people and their language. By J. G. Kyle and B. Woll Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988 (first published 1985). Pp. viii, 318. Paper $16.95.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The deaf community 2. British Sign Language 3. Historical aspects of BSL 4. Sign language acquisition 5. The building blocks of sign language 6. The structure of signs 7. Sign morphology and syntax: the grammar of BSL 8. Comparing sign languages 9. Learning and using BSL 10. The psychology of sign 11. Sign language interpreting 12. Sign language in schools 13. Which sign language? 14. Developments for sign language Appendix References Subject index Index of signs in the text Index of names in the text.