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Ears, Eyes, and Hands Reflections on Language, Literarcy, and Linguistics
ISBN: PB: 9781944838393, Gallaudet University Press, February 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Ears, Eyes, and Hands" presents the author's reflections on language, literacy, and linguistics that have been shaped by her deafness and by her work as an educator. In short, engaging narratives, Deborah L. Wolter exposes deeply entrenched attitude...
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£25,00
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Gesture in Multiparty Interaction
ISBN: HB: 9781944838430, Gallaudet University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm
"Gesture in Multiparty Interaction" confronts the competing views that exist regarding gesture's relationship to language. In this work, Emily Shaw examines embodied discourses in American Sign Language and spoken English and seeks to establish conne...
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£60,00
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Introduction to Medical Spanish Communication and Culture (Fifth Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300226027, Yale University Press, January 2019
480 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 186 black&white illus.
As the Spanish-speaking population grows, nurses, doctors, dentists, and other health care professionals increasingly need to communicate in Spanish with their patients. Formerly titled "An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers", the fifth...
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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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Real McCoy and 149 other Eponyms
ISBN: HB: 9781851244980, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
144 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm
The English language is rich with eponyms – words that are named after an individual – some better known than others. This book features 150 of the most interesting and enlightening specimens, delving into the origins of the words and describing the...
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£9,99
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Revealing Structure
ISBN: PB: 9781684000296, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2018
292 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Drawing from a wide range of perspectives in the analysis of grammatical structures, the papers collected in this book are unified not by linguistic subfield, but by the investigative method they employ in revealing grammatical patterns".Revealing St...
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£23,00
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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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Enumerations Data and Literary Study
ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables
For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...
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£20,50
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£67,50
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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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