TY  - BOOK
UR  - https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/COGBIB/entry/cogbib.10625/html
TI  - A Man without Words
AU  - Schaller, Susan
PY  - 1996
PP  - London
PB  - First Glance Books
KW  - theory of language
KW  - human without language
KW  - deafmute
KW  - pantomime
KW  - sign language
KW  - language and thought
KW  - procedural information
AB  - For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty- four- year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. A Man without Words vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. (Publisher Book Description)
SN  - 0091770211
DB  - Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography (CogBib)
DP  - De Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin, Boston
ET  - 2010
Y2  - 2026-05-04
ER  -