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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-04-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham
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The roadside sign is an American icon: a glowing evocation of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs, more than nostalgic symbols, are complex pieces of des
Language: en
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Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Signs Across America provides a fascinating and unique look at regional variations in American Sign Language. The authors contacted native signers in 25 states
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Pages: 257
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Signs orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in America’s
