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Interpreter Education in the Digital Age Innovation, Access, and Change
ISBN: HB: 9781563686382, Gallaudet University Press, April 2015
346 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 tables
This collection brings together innovative research and approaches for blended learning using digital technology in interpreter education for signed and spoken languages. Volume editors Suzanne Ehrlich and Jemina Napier call upon the expertise of 21...
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Deaf Space in Adamorobe An Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana
ISBN: HB: 9781563686320, Gallaudet University Press, April 2015
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 11 figures, 24 photos
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation. In the United States, Martha's Vineyard gained mythical fame as a paradise for deaf people where eve...
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College Latin An Intermediate Course
ISBN: PB: 9780300190922, Yale University Press, February 2015
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
By providing a much-needed grammar review, along with a variety of readings that will suit the tastes of many different teaching preferences, this textbook will help students make the transition from beginning Latin to the intermediate level. The boo...
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£45,00
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What Is Said and What Is Not The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
ISBN: HB: 9781575866680, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said", the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between seman...
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£49,00
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Predicative Constructions From the Fregean to a Montagovian Treatment
ISBN: PB: 9781575868370, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There are multitudes of ways in which predicative constructions can be analyzed. In this book, Frank Van Eynde differentiates between the Fregean and Montagovian treatments of these constructions in order to better understand predicative construction...
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£24,00
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 21
ISBN: PB: 9781575866543, ISBN: HB: 9781575866536, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
500 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the twenty-first Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at Se...
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 22
ISBN: PB: 9781575867519, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...
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£28,00
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Mickey's Harvest A Novel of a Deaf Boy's Checkered Life
ISBN: PB: 9781563686368, Gallaudet University Press, February 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Howard L. Terry wrote a novel between 1917 and 1922, which he donated to the Gallaudet University Archives in 1951. There it rested until a resurgence of interest in Deaf literature led to its recent rediscovery. Mickey's "Harvest: A Novel of a Deaf...
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£22,50
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Sign Language Archaeology Understanding the Historical Roots of American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563684937, Gallaudet University Press, February 2015
278 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables
This engrossing study investigates the infancy of American Sign Language (ASL). Authors Ted Supalla and Patricia Clark highlight the major events in ASL history, revealing much of what has not been clearly understood until now. According to tradition...
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Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 9 Perspectives on Semantic Representations for Textual Inference
ISBN: PB: 9781575868448, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2015
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT)" is an open-access journal that focuses on the relationships between linguistic insights and language technology. In conjunction with machine learning and statistical techniques, deeper and more sophis...
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£20,50
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