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Monastic Sign Languages.
Title:
Monastic Sign Languages.
Author:
Umiker-Sebeok, Jean.
ISBN:
9783110865028
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (634 pages)
Series:
Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; v.76

Approaches to Semiotics [AS]
Contents:
PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. MONASTIC SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES -- Le Langage des Silencieux -- Le Langage par Signes Chez les Moines -- Le Langage par Gestes Chez les Moines -- Étude D'Un Corpus: Dictionnaire Du Langage Gestuel Chez les Trappistes -- Two Anglo-Saxon Sign Systems Compared -- Cistercian Sign Language -- Sign Language and the Monastic Use of Lexical Gestures -- II. SAMPLE FRAGMENTS OF CONFIGURATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS -- Latin Texts -- De Notitia Signorum -- De Silentio -- De Silentio -- Ars Signorum Cisterciensium -- Significare -- De Silentio & Signis -- Signa Secundum Ordinem Cisterciensem -- Texts in Other Languages -- Zur Geschichte der Zeichensprache -- A Table of Signs Used During the Hours of Silence by the Sisters in the Monastery of Sion -- I "Signa Loquendi" Cistercensi in un Codice Delia Biblioteca Nacional di Madrid -- Livros de Sinais dos Cistercienses Portugueses -- Vocabulaire des Signes Pratiqués dans L'Ordre de Cȋteaux -- Index of Names.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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