Talking Hands

This book was fascinating. I'm always going to be interested in reading about linguistics, and I like Fox's voice. The history and background of ASL was really interesting, especially the brain studies that were done on ASL signers who had strokes - if you weren't convinced that sign language is real language, those should definitely convince you! If a signer has the “language center” of the brain damaged, they lose the ability to sign but not the ability to pantomime! That's so weird. There's a lot of cool information in this book about the linguistics of sign languages and their formation, and I liked reading about the linguists methods of studying language.