Abstract
The monograph maps the history of the Czech linguistic and cultural approach to deafness (especially in connection with the establishment and development of the study course Czech in the Communication of the Deaf at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague) and briefly defines main areas, pursued by teachers, students as well as graduates of the course, regarding the linguistic and communication situation of the Czech deaf and their life in hearing society. Part I contains these chapters: Simultaneity in the Czech Sign Language, Negation in the Czech Sign Language, On the Expression of Quantity in the Czech Sign Language, Adjectives in the Czech Sign Language?, Specific signs of the Czech Sign Language, Name Signs in the Czech Sign Language, On the Specifics od Language Acquisition in Deaf Children, Czech Sign Language in Contact, Cognitive Linguistics and the Study od the Czech Sign Language (First Comments), Conceptualization of Coulours in Sign Languages, Sign Languages and Conceptual Metaphor, Notation of Czech Sign Language.
Part II contains these chapters: Reading Literacy of the Czech Deaf, Written Correspondence of the Czech Deaf (late 1980s and early 1990s), The Concept of Space in Written Texts of the Czech Deaf, Instructions for Comprehension?, The Deaf and Study Materials - The Issue of Comprehension, The Semantics of Case in Teaching Czech as a Second Language fort the Deaf.