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Criminology

Linguistics

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Paris in America A Deaf Nanticoke Shoemaker and His Daughter

Mosl Hall Clare Jean, Williamson Gayle

ISBN: PB: 9781944838355, Gallaudet University Press, September 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Clara Jean Mosley Hall has inhabited various cultural worlds in her life: Native American, African American, Deaf, and hearing. The hearing daughter of a Deaf Nanticoke Indian, who grew up in Dover, Delaware's black community in the 1950s and 60s, Ha...

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Education

Constant Struggle Deaf Education in New South Wales since World War II

Malone Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781944838492, Gallaudet University Press, May 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

Deaf education in New South Wales has made tremendous progress since the end of World War II, yet issues remain for students from their early years of education through secondary high school. Naomi Malone traces the roots of these issues and argues t...

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Arabic

Introducing Arabic

Mumisa Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781861187475, Bookport, Third Millennium Press, April 2019
164 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm

His clear English text discusses the grammar in simple terms and introduces the reader to the meanings of words before providing reasonably sized vocabulary lists. This book presents some of the basic as well as advanced laws of Arabic in simple lang...

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Sign Language

Education

Language, Power, and Resistance Mainstreaming Deaf Education

Mathews Elizabeth S.

ISBN: HB: 9781944838041, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table

The current policy of educating d/Deaf and h/Hard of hearing (DHH) students in a mainstream setting, rather than in the segregated environments of deaf schools, has been portrayed as a positive step forward in creating greater equality for DHH studen...

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Sign Language

Conversations with Interpreter Educators Exploring Best Practices

Monikowski Christine

ISBN: HB: 9781944838003, Gallaudet University Press, March 2017
188 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Sign language interpreter education is a relatively young field that is moving toward more theory-based and research-oriented approaches. The concept of sharing research, which is strongly encouraged in this academic community, inspired Christine Mon...

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Philosophy

Linguistics

Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition

Moravcsik Julius M.

ISBN: PB: 9781575864808, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition – humans not as information-processing creatu...

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Sign Language

General

Hidden Treasure of Black ASL Its History and Structure

McCaskill Carolyn, Lucas Ceil, Bayley Robert, Hill Joseph Christopher

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781563684890, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures

People who first encounter sign language often ask if all deaf people sign the same language and are surprised to learn that there are different sign languages in different nations worldwide, as well as variations of these languages. One variation, B...

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Sign Language

Education

Psychological and Psychoeducational Assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Adolescents

Miller Margery S., Thomas-Presswood Tania N., Metz Kurt, Lukomski Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781563686504, Gallaudet University Press, January 2016
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 2 figures

The obstacles to valid and meaningful assessment of deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents are great, yet professionals are regularly asked to conduct comprehensive evaluations to determine resource and program eligibility, test modificati...

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Sign Language

Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators Challenges of Interpretation

Metzger Melanie, Fleetwood Earl

ISBN: PB: 9781563685682, Gallaudet University Press, August 2015
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures

The second volume in the Studies in Interpretation series delves further into the intricacies of sign language interpreting in five distinctive chapters. In the first chapter, Lawrence Forestal investigates the shifting attitudes of Deaf leaders towa...

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