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Discourse in Signed Languages
ISBN: HB: 9781563685118, Gallaudet University Press, November 2011
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 51 figures
In this volume, editor Cynthia B. Roy presents a stellar cast of cognitive linguists, sociolinguists, and discourse analysts to discover and demonstrate how sign language users make sense of what is going on within their social and cultural contexts...
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£68,00
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Grammatical Framework Programming with Multilingual Grammars
ISBN: PB: 9781575866260, ISBN: HB: 9781575866277, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2011
340 pp., 23x15 cm
Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This thorough introduction demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them i...
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£24,50
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£52,50
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Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research
ISBN: PB: 9781575866123, ISBN: HB: 9781575866130, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
369 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research" consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the University of Alberta in October 2004. The paper...
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£24,50
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£56,50
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Language Policy and Planning for Sign Languages
ISBN: HB: 9781563684623, Gallaudet University Press, November 2010
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 figures
This volume addresses the burgeoning need for language policy and language planning for the sign languages used by deaf people. Author Timothy Reagan writes for two audiences in his new book, those who know language policy and language planning but...
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£64,00
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Deaf Lives in Contrast Two Women's Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781563683947, Gallaudet University Press, September 2008
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 photos
"Deaf Lives in Contrast: Two Women's Stories" might seem to bring together polar opposites in the broad range of deaf experience. Yet, as these narratives unfold, the reader will recognize that common threads run through them despite their different...
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£26,50
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Lady in the Painting Simplified Characters
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780300125160, Yale University Press, April 2008
250 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Written in the style of a Chinese folktale, this book presents the story of "The Lady in the Painting" with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese. It uses an inventory of 300 Chinese characters, s...
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£35,00
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Lady in the Painting A Basic Chinese Reader
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780300115499, Yale University Press, April 2008
250 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 black&white illus.
This book is an expanded edition of the story "The Lady in the Painting", written in the style of a Chinese folktale by Fred Fang-Yu Wang. The story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chin...
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£28,00
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Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek An Introduction (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226718583, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
228 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. Available now in a special reprint for the North America...
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£22,50
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Advanced Russian Through History
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780300109474, Yale University Press, January 2007
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 5 maps, 8 photos
"Advanced Russian Through History" is a Russian reader for intermediate and advanced students of Russian and heritage learners of Russian. The book consists of 36 chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Ea...
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£47,00
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New Approaches to Interpreter Education
ISBN: HB: 9781563682971, Gallaudet University Press, October 2006
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 4 figures
The latest addition to the Interpreter Education series expands the tools available to instructors with six new, vital chapters on new curricula and creative teaching methods. Series editor Cynthia B. Roy leads the way by calling for the use of a dis...
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£34,00
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