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Schreiben lernen A Writing Guide for Learners of German

Dykstra-Pruim Pennylyn, Redmann Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300166033, Yale University Press, July 2011
224 pp., 15x25 cm, 68 black&white illus.

This text offers a unique approach to assisting German learners at various levels of proficiency in developing their writing skills in eight different genres. The guide includes information and activities for structuring sentences, paragraphs, and en...

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Sign Language

Show of Hands A Natural History of Sign Language

Armstrong David F.

ISBN: PB: 9781563684883, Gallaudet University Press, April 2011
126 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, photos, figures

Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong s new book "Show of...

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Sign Language

Signs of the Times

Shroyer Edgar H.

ISBN: PB: 9781563684463, Gallaudet University Press, March 2011
550 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1300 sign illus.

Completely Revised with New Signs and Lessons Each Sign Illustration Features Sentences in English and ASL Order New Class Activities and New Student Activities for Homework or Quizzes New Facts about American Sign Language Grammar and Deaf CultureNo...

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Sign Language

Sign Language Interpreting Deconstructing the Myth of Neutrality

Metzger Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9781563683442, Gallaudet University Press, February 2011
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In her new, significant work, Melanie Metzger demonstrates clearly that the ideal of an interpreter as a neutral language conduit does not exist. Metzger offers evidence of this disparity by analyzing two videotaped ASL-English interpreted medical in...

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Sign Language

Study of Signed Languages Essays in Honor of William C. Stokoe

Armstrong David F., Karchmer Michael A., Vickrey Van Cleve John

ISBN: PB: 9781563685101, Gallaudet University Press, February 2011
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1999, many of today's notable researchers assembled at a special conference in honor of William C. Stokoe to explore the remarkable research that grew out of his original insights on American Sign Language. "The Study of Signed Languages" presents...

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Linguistics

Selected Papers on Fun and Games

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575865843, ISBN: HB: 9781575865850, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Donald E. Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become cl...

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Education

Sound Sense Living and Learning with Hearing Loss

Laufer Batinovich Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781563684715, Gallaudet University Press, December 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, tables, figures, illus.

One out of every eight people between the ages of 18 and 67 in the United States has a hearing loss, estimated as 12 percent of the working-age population. "Sound Sense: Living and Learning with Hearing Loss" addresses the acute need of these people...

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Arabic

Shou fi ma fi? Intermediate Levantine Arabic

Chouairi Rajaa

ISBN: PB: 9780300153910, Yale University Press, July 2010
250 pp., 24.9x20.1 cm, 50 black&white illus.

"Shou fi ma fi?" will enable students to communicate orally in Levantine Arabic, the variety of Arabic spoken in Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land, and western Jordan. The text assumes familiarity with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and it is highly recom...

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Sign Language

Seeing Language in Sign The Work of William C. Stokoe

Maher Jane

ISBN: PB: 9781563684708, Gallaudet University Press, April 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1955 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English where he was first exposed to deaf people signing. While most of his colleagues dismissed signing as mere mimicry of speech, Stokoe saw in it eleme...

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Biography & Memoires

Signing in Puerto Rican A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family

Torres Andres

ISBN: PB: 9781563684173, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 photos

The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andres Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles. In "Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family", he opens a window into th...

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