TY  - BOOK
AU  - Devy, G. N.
AU  - Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
AU  - Grover, Nisha
AU  - Randhawa, Surinder P. K.
TI  - People's Linguistic Survey of India: Indian Sign Language(s) Vol. 38
SN  - 9788125054894
U1  - 491.4 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Orient Blackswan Private Limited
KW  - Language Surveys - India
N1  - Part I: Features of the Indian Sign Language
1. Overview and Early History of Indian Sign Language / Madan M. Vasishta
2. Distinctive Features of the Indian Sign Language in Comparison to Foreign Sign Languages / Ulrike Zeshan
3. Space, Units and Order in ISL / Hidam Gourashyam Singh
4. Local Representative Signs of the Western Region / Nisha Grover
5. Fingerspelling / Rajesh Ketkar
6. Sign Writing / Hidam Gourashyam Singh

Part II: Education and Policy
7. Sign Bilingualism / Surinder P. K. Randhawa
8. Alipur, a Village with Hereditary Deafness in India: A Sociolinguistic and Socio-educational Profile / Sibaji Panda
9. Legislation and Policies in Relation to Sign Language and Sign Language Rights / Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Surinder P. K. Randhawa

Part III: The Present Situation
10. A Personal Account of Historical Developments of Indian Sign Language / Madan M. Vasishta
11. Indian Sign Language and Humour in Cyberspace / Neha Kulshreshtha
12. Organisations of Deaf People / Compiled by Atiya Hajee
13. Voices / Compiled by Surinder P. K. Randhawa
14. The Future of Indian Sign Language / Compiled by Surinder P. K. Randhawa

Part IV: Sign Language and Other Knowledge Systems
15. Signs in Indian Tradition—the Chinha Shastra / Ganesh Devy
16. Sign Language and Signing in the Traditions of Performance in India / Tista Bagchi
17. Sign Iconicity and New Epistemologies / Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Part V: Appendices
Appendix I: A List of Films / (Compiled by Surinder P. K. Randhawa)
Appendix II: Sign Vocabulary of Western India (Gujarat) / (Drawn by Sanjeev Bhatt)
Bibliography of Indian Sign Language and Deaf Studies / (Compiled by Samar Sinha)
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