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Studies in Language and Information
ISBN: PB: 9781684000500, ISBN: HB: 9781684000494, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
489 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book gathers together in one volume many influential papers by renowned philosopher of language John Perry.
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£30,00
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Sounds Like Home Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
ISBN: PB: 9781944838584, Gallaudet University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 photos
Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life f...
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£25,00
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Signed Language Interpreting in the 21st Century An Overview of the Profession
ISBN: HB: 9781944838249, Gallaudet University Press, December 2018
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 2 figures
This text provides interpreting students with a broad knowledge base that encompasses the latest research, addresses current trends and perspectives of the Deaf community, and promotes critical thinking and open dialogue about the working conditions,...
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£53,00
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Syntax-Semantics Interface
ISBN: PB: 9788024637143, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Syntax-Semantics Interface" is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajicova between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generat...
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£19,00
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Shaping Phonology
ISBN: HB: 9780226562452, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 26 line drawings, 6 tables
Within the past forty years, the field of phonology – a branch of linguistics that explores both the sound structures of spoken language and the analogous phonemes of sign language, as well as how these features of language are used to convey meaning...
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£45,00
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Silent Life and Silent Language The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf
ISBN: PB: 9781944838294, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
200 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Silent Life and Silent Language" presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and enter...
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£25,00
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Sister and Brother A Family Story
ISBN: PB: 9781944838201, Gallaudet University Press, June 2018
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 illus., 1 figure
In this historical narrative, Swedish novelist Agneta Pleijel follows the lives of two ancestors, a sister and brother, each of whom played a role in the cultural life of Stockholm in the 19th century. Using old letters, records, and stories passed d...
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£26,50
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Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language A Study of Language Use and Attitudes
ISBN: HB: 9781944838065, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 figures
Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million membe...
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£45,00
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Surviving in Silence A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, The Harry I. Dunai Story
ISBN: PB: 9781563682353, ISBN: HB: 9781563681196, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Izrael Zachariah Deutsch was born on March 15, 1934, in Komjata, Czechoslovakia. The second youngest child, Izrael lived a bucolic existence with nine brothers and sisters on a farm, differing from them only in that he was deaf. When he was six, his...
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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals
ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.
In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...
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£52,50
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