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Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings
ISBN: PB: 9788024638690, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! With a focus on Spanish modality, this book presents Bohumil Zavadil's theoretical approach – the first such presentation in English – to this category and, consequently, analyzes its poss...
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£20,00
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Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s
ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos
This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...
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£60,00
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My Life of Language A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781944838140, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 photos
Paul W. Ogden has dedicated his life to educating young deaf and hard of hearing people and raising awareness of what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. He has taught and mentored a generation of teachers, and his classic volume, The Silent Gard...
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£22,50
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My Mother Made Me Deaf Discourse and Identity in a Deaf Community
ISBN: HB: 9781563686870, Gallaudet University Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table
The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. Howeve...
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£49,00
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Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition
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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£19,00
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Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions
ISBN: HB: 9780226363523, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 15 line drawings, 14 tables
Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these...
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£52,50
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Mental Health Services for Deaf People Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
ISBN: HB: 9781563686542, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 tables, 2 figures
The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which...
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£56,00
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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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More Than Meets the Eye Revealing the Complexities of an Interpreted Education
ISBN: HB: 9781563685798, Gallaudet University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 10 tables
Sign language interpreters often offer the primary avenue of access for deaf and hard of hearing students in public schools. More than 80% of all deaf children today are mainstreamed, and few of their teachers sign well enough to provide them with fu...
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£64,00
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Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community
ISBN: PB: 9781563685576, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father's employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at he...
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£34,00
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