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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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Sign Language Interpreting in the Workplace
ISBN: HB: 9781563686894, Gallaudet University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 transcriptions
The last forty years have seen a dramatic change in the nature of work, with deaf people increasingly moving into white collar or office-based professions. The rise of deaf professionals has led to sign language interpreters being employed across a v...
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Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9781563686702, Gallaudet University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 illus., 3 figures
Goedele A. M. De Clerck presents cross-cultural comparative research that examines and documents where deaf flourishing occurs and how it can be advanced. She spotlights collective and dynamic resources of knowledge and learning; the coexistence of l...
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Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities Envisioning the Future for Deaf Students
ISBN: HB: 9781563686788, Gallaudet University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Increased interaction between sign language communities and the mainstream societies in which they function is creating the potential for greater equality of opportunity for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In this volume, renowned scholars a...
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From Syntax to Text The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9788024628790, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
400 pp., 24x16.5 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. Libuše Duškova...
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Language and the Creative Mind
ISBN: HB: 9781575866710, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2014
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and...
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£56,00
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Building Bridges, Crossing Borders One Young Deaf Woman's Education
ISBN: PB: 9781563686078, Gallaudet University Press, May 2014
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 13 photos
Kyler Daniels was born in 1988 with a profound bilateral hearing loss. Her deafness went undetected for a year since newborn screening for hearing loss was not yet available. Kyler benefited, however, from the great support of her family and a string...
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Concreteness in Grammar
ISBN: PB: 9781575866062, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm
Based on an exhaustive search of published sources and the author's firsthand fieldwork, "Concreteness in Grammar" explores the role of phonological form in the noun class systems of the Arapesh languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. Linguists have lo...
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Signed Languages Discoveries from International Research
ISBN: PB: 9781563685927, Gallaudet University Press, March 2013
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This collection presents research from the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research conference. Part one addresses articulatory constraints and the Dutch Sign Language. Part two tackles noun classifiers, nonhanded signs, and verb classes. Part th...
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Tell Me How It Reads Tutoring Deaf and Hearing Students in the Writing Center
ISBN: PB: 9781563685484, Gallaudet University Press, December 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables
Deaf students are attending mainstream postsecondary institutions in increasing numbers, raising the stakes for the complicated and multifaceted task of tutoring deaf students at these schools. Common tutoring practices used with hearing students do...
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£30,00
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