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Francophone Sub-Saharan African Literature in Global Contexts Yale French Studies, Number 120

Mabanckou Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780300118261, Yale University Press, January 2012
168 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The parameters of Francophone sub-Saharan African literature have expanded dramatically during recent years. Twentieth-century African writing was for the most part organized according to the shifting cultural, political, and social circumstances tha...

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Sign Language

Education

Partners in Education Issues and Trends from the 21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf

Moores Donald F.

ISBN: HB: 9781563684951, Gallaudet University Press, June 2011
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables

The 21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED) witnessed revolutionary exchanges on the vital themes in education. Presenters addressed topics encompassing seven major strands: Educational Environments, Language and Literacy, Ear...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 18

McClure William, Dikken Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9781575866161, ISBN: HB: 9781575866178, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
456 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Because Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The annual Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will deepen our...

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Sign Language

Education

Ethical Considerations in Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Mangan Christensen Kathee

ISBN: HB: 9781563684791, Gallaudet University Press, February 2011
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, tables, figures

The education of deaf or hard of hearing children has become as complex as the varying needs of each individual child. Teachers face classrooms filled with students who are culturally Deaf, hard of hearing, or post-lingually deaf; they might use Am...

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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

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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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Extraordinary from the Ordinary Personal Experience Narratives in American Sign Language

Mulrooney Kristin J.

ISBN: HB: 9781563684166, Gallaudet University Press, November 2009
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 tables, 117 figures, 706 photos in figures

Personal narratives are one way people code their experiences and convey them to others. Given that speakers can simultaneously express information and define a social situation, analyzing how and why people structure the telling of personal narrativ...

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Sign Language

General

Deaf People Around the World Educational and Social Perspectives

Moores Donald F., Miller Margery S.

ISBN: HB: 9781563684104, Gallaudet University Press, May 2009
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 24 tables, 4 figures, 3 photos

In "Deaf People Around the World: Educational and Social Perspectives", the leading researchers in 30 nations describe the shared developmental, social, and educational issues facing deaf people filtered through the prism of unique national, regional...

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Italian

Set the Stage! Teaching Italian Through Theater

Marini-Maio Nicoletta, Ryan-Scheutz Colleen

ISBN: PB: 9780300109856, Yale University Press, January 2009
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

"Set the Stage!" is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theatre. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the ri...

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Sign Language

Translation, Sociolinguistic, and Consumer Issues in Interpreting

Metzger Melanie, Fleetwood Earl

ISBN: HB: 9781563683602, Gallaudet University Press, November 2007
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables, 18 figures

This new volume focuses on scholarship over a refined spectrum of issues that confront interpreters internationally. Editors Melanie Metzger and Earl Fleetwood call upon researchers from the United States, Ireland, Australia, and the Philippines to s...

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