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Sign Language & LinguisticsVol. 5:2 (2002) ► pp.254–258
Book review
. Language from the body: Iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 256 pp. ISBN 0-521-77062-9
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