Joy of Signing : A Dictionary of American Signs.

Cover -- Title -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Third Edition -- History of Sign Language and Fingerspelling -- Terminology -- The Art of Signing -- The Language Pattern of Signs-Signing on the Continuum -- Fingerspelling -- Manual Alphabet Chart -- 1 Family Relationships -- 2 Pronouns, Question Words, and Endings -- 3 Time -- 4 Mental Action -- 5 Emotion and Feeling -- 6 People, Occupations, and Money -- 7 Physical Movement and Travel -- 8 Opposites -- 9 Location and Direction -- 10 Verbs and Related Words, Part 1 -- 11 Verbs and Related Words, Part 2 -- 12 Quality, Kind, and Condition -- 13 Quantity, Size, and Degree -- 14 Communication and Government -- 15 Education -- 16 Miscellaneous Nouns -- 17 Nature -- 18 Body, Medicine, and Health -- 19 Home, Furniture, and Clothing -- 20 Food and Related Words -- 21 Sports and Recreation -- 22 Countries, Cities, and States -- 23 Animals -- 24 Religion -- 25 Numbers -- Appendix: Mastering the Art of Signing Naturally -- Words for Which Signs Are Not Always Required -- Statements, Commands, Questions -- Types of Questions -- The Conditional Sentence -- Pluralization and Frequency -- Noun Verb Pairs -- Intensity and Degree -- Location of Signs in a Story -- Use of Eyes and Index Finger inPointing -- The Signer Becoming theCharacter in the Story -- Tense -- Continuity, Continuous Action, Duration -- Regularity -- Directionality of Signs -- Signs Placed at Appropriate Locationson the Body -- Incorporating Numbers -- Numbers Used with Personal Pronouns -- Negation -- Classifiers and Size and Shape Specifiers -- Organizations Serving the Deaf -- Vocabulary Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.