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Fox, Margalit Eve was born on April 25, 1961 in Glen Cove, New York, United States. Daughter of David and Laura (Garfield) Fox.
(Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. ...)
Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village -- an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness -- is at the heart of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind. There, an indigenous sign language has sprung up, used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. It is a language no outsider has been able to decode, until now. A New York Times reporter trained as a linguist, Margalit Fox is the only Western journalist to have set foot in this remarkable village. In Talking Hands, she follows an international team of scientists that is unraveling this mysterious language. Because the sign language of the village has arisen completely on its own, outside the influence of any other language, it is a living demonstration of the "language instinct," man's inborn capacity to create language. If the researchers can decode this language, they will have helped isolate ingredients essential to all human language, signed and spoken. But as Talking Hands grippingly shows, their work in the village is also a race against time, because the unique language of the village may already be endangered. Talking Hands offers a fascinating introduction to the signed languages of the world -- languages as beautiful, vital and emphatically human as any other -- explaining why they are now furnishing cognitive scientists with long-sought keys to understanding how language works in the mind. Written in lyrical, accessible prose, Talking Hands will captivate anyone interested in language, the human mind and journeys to exotic places.
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Fox, Margalit Eve was born on April 25, 1961 in Glen Cove, New York, United States. Daughter of David and Laura (Garfield) Fox.
Bachelor in Linguistics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1982. Master of Arts in Linguistics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1983. Master of Science, Columbia University School Journalism, 1991.
Foreign language editor Dover Publications, New York City, 1984-1985. Freelance arts journalist, 1985-1994. Staff editor Book Review New York Times, 1994—2004, obituary writer, since 2004.
(Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. ...)
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Married George Richard Robinson, September 13, 1986.