Sarah F. Taub. 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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Phyllis Perrin Wilcox | University of New Mexico

Published online: 20 August 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.5.2.14wil

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Sarah F. Taub. Language from the body: Iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 256 pp. ISBN 0-521-77062-9

Sarah F. Taub. Language from the body: Iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 256 pp. ISBN 0-521-77062-9