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Sign Language

Public Health

Investigations in Healthcare Interpreting

Nicodemus Brenda, Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563686122, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables

In healthcare, the accuracy of interpretation is the most critical component of safe and effective communication between providers and patients in medical settings characterized by language and cultural barriers. Although medical education should pre...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Arabic

Introduction to Contemporary Spoken Arabic A Conversational Course on DVD, Part 2

Abed Shukri B.

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780300159042, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.

This text-and-DVD package can be used to improve the conversational skills of second- to third-semester beginning Arabic students. It helps students as they begin to express themselves in Arabic, guiding them through language functions such as introd...

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Linguistics

Interaction of Tone with Voicing and Foot Structure Evidence from Kera Phonetics and Phonology

Pearce Mary D.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866086, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm

This book investigates the topics of tone, vowel harmony, and metrical structure, with special reference to Kera, a Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Kera is a tone language where a change in the pitch of the word can make a difference to...

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Fiction

Islay A Novel

Bullard Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9781563685637, Gallaudet University Press, September 2013
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, map

Now, a new edition of the classic novel Islay promises to entertain a contemporary audience with its Deaf American dream first conceived by Douglas Bullard in 1986. Islay is the name of an imaginary island state coveted by Lyson Sulla, a Deaf man who...

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Linguistics

Identity, Language, and Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry

Newen Albert, van Riel Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9781575866420, ISBN: HB: 9781575866437, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2012
161 pp., 23x15 cm

As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal identity, and consciousness. Looking particularly at th...

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Law

Interpreting in Legal Settings

Russell Debra, Hale Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9781563685507, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 tables, 7 figures

The work of interpreters in legal settings, whether they are spoken or signed language interpreters, is filled with enormous complexity and challenges. This engrossing volume presents six, data-based studies from both signed and spoken language inte...

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Education

Illusions of Equality Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950

Buchanan Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685491, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The working lives of Deaf Americans from the mid-1850s to the post-World War II era depended upon strategies created by Deaf community leaders to win and keep jobs through periods of low national employment as well as high. Deaf people typically soug...

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Public Health

In Our Hands Educating Healthcare Interpreters

Swabey Laurie, Malcolm Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781563685217, Gallaudet University Press, February 2012
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 8 figures

Deaf Americans have identified healthcare as the most difficult setting in which to obtain a qualified interpreter. Yet, relatively little attention has been given to developing evidence-based resources and a standardized body of knowledge to educate...

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Education

International Practices in Special Education Debates and Challenges

Winzer Margret A., Mazurek Kas

ISBN: HB: 9781563685095, Gallaudet University Press, December 2011
344 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 figures

Margret A. Winzer and Kas Mazurek combine two disciplines in this collection, comparative and international studies and special education, to explore the ways that diverse nations respond to persons who are exceptional. Their learned contributors als...

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