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Education

Teaching and Learning in Bilingual Classrooms New Scholarship

Mulrooney Kristin J.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686238, Gallaudet University Press, January 2015
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables

A new initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education today by methodically examining and assessing the vital component of classroom interaction. This collection presents research by five professors wh...

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Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuninit / Inupiaq to English Dictionary

MacLean Edna

ISBN: HB: 9781602232334, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
1018 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, 1 map, 25 line drawings

This is a comprehensive treatment of one of Alaska's oldest ancestral languages. Through its 19,000 entries and thirty-one appendices – with categories such as kin terms, names of constellations, and a list of explanations – the dictionary is an exce...

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Sign Language

From Topic Boundaries to Omission New Research on Interpretation

Metzger Melanie, Collins Steven D., Dively Valerie, Shaw Risa

ISBN: PB: 9781563686405, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables, 8 figures, 36 photos

This new collection examines several facets of signed language interpreting. Claudia Angelelli's study confirms that conference, courtroom, and medical interpretation can no longer be seen as a two-party conversation with an "invisible" interpreter,...

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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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Biography & Memoires

Art of Being Deaf A Memoir

McDonald Donna

ISBN: PB: 9781563685972, Gallaudet University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Concerned about aspects of her romantic relationships, Donna McDonald consulted with a psychologist who asked, "Your hearing loss must have had a big impact on you?" At age 45, with a successful career in social work policy, McDonald took umbrage at...

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Signs and Wonders Religious Rhetoric and the Preservation of Sign Language

Morse Tracy Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781563686016, Gallaudet University Press, March 2014
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos

Current academic discourse frequently understates the role of religion in the development of the American Deaf community. In her new study, Tracy Ann Morse effects a sharp course correction by delineating the frequent use over time of religious rheto...

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Linguistics

English

Does Science Need a Global Language? English and the Future of Research

Montgomery Scott L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226535036, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contrib...

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Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities

Metzger Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9781563685897, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is perception reality? Editor Melanie Metzger investigates the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people around the world in Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities volume six of the Sociolinguistics series.

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Signed Language Interpreting in Brazil

Muller de Quadros Ronice, Fleetwood Earl, Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563685439, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The ninth volume in the Studies in Interpretation series offers six succinct chapters on the state of signed language interpreting by Brazil by editors Ronice Muller de Quadros, Earl Fleetwood, Melanie Metzger and ten Brazilian researchers. The first...

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Sign Language

General

Many Ways to Be Deaf International Variation in Deaf Communities

Monaghan Leila, Schmaling Constanze, Nakamura Karen, Turner Graham H.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685781, Gallaudet University Press, January 2013
338 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

The recent explosion of sociocultural, linguistic, and historical research on signed languages throughout the world has culminated in "Many Ways to Be Deaf", an unmatched collection of in-depth articles about linguistic diversity in Deaf communities...

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