Languages of Sweden - Swedish Sign Language

Famous quotes containing the words sign language, sign and/or language:

“The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?”
—Hugo Ball (1886–1927)

“If we define a sign as an exact reference, it must include symbol because a symbol is an exact reference too. The difference seems to be that a sign is an exact reference to something definite and a symbol an exact reference to something indefinite.”
—William York Tindall (1903–1981)

“This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
Look at it talking to you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)