Sign Language of the North American Indians (Illustrated Edition). Garrick Mallery

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Table of Contents

       Introductory

       Divisions of Gesture Speech

       The Origin of Sign Language

       Gestures of the Lower Animals

       Gestures of Young Children

       Gestures in Mental Disorder

       Uninstructed Deaf-mutes

       Gestures of the Blind

       Loss of Speech by Isolation

       Low Tribes of Man

       Gestures as an Occasional Resource

       Gestures of Fluent Talkers

       Involuntary Response to Gestures

       Natural Pantomime

       Some Theories Upon Primitive Language

       Conclusions

       History of Gesture Language

       Modern Use of Gesture Speech

       Use by Other Peoples than North American Indians

       Use by Modern Actors and Orators

       Our Indian Conditions Favorable to Sign Language

       Theories Entertained Respecting Indian Signs

       Not Correlated with Meagerness of Language

       Its Origin from One Tribe or Region

       Is the Indian System Special and Peculiar?

       To What Extent Prevalent as a System

       Are Signs Conventional or Instinctive?

       Classes of Diversities in Signs

       Results Sought in the Study of Sign Language

       Practical Application

       Relations to Philology

       Sign Language with Reference to Grammar

       Gestures Aiding Archæologic Research

       Notable Points For Further Researches

       Invention of New Signs

       Danger of Symbolic Interpretation

       Signs Used by Women and Children

       Positive Signs Rendered Negative

       Details of Positions of Fingers

       Motions Relative to Parts of the Body

       Suggestions for Collecting Signs

       Mode in which Researches have been Made

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