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Biography & Memoires

Deaf-Blind Reality Living the Life

Stoffel Scott M.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685354, Gallaudet University Press, October 2012
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most stories about disabled people are written for the sake of being inspirational. These stories tend to focus on some achievement, such as sports or academics, but rarely do they give a true and complete view of the challenges individuals must deal...

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Dictionaries

Dictionary of Modern Proverbs

Doyle Charles Clay, Mieder Wolfgang, Shapiro Fred R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300136029, Yale University Press, June 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"There are no second acts". "It takes a village to raise a child". "Life is just a bowl of cherries". We may think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusivel...

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Biography & Memoires

Deaf Heritage A Narrative History of Deaf America

Gannon Jack R.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685149, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
520 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 photos, figures

Now, Jack R. Gannon's original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In "Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America", Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America...

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Fiction

Deaf American Prose, 1980-2010

Harmon Kristen C., Nelson Jennifer L.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685231, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

In Deaf life, the personal narrative holds sway because most Deaf individuals recall their formative years as solitary struggles to understand and to be understood. Few deaf people in the past related their stories in written form, relying instead on...

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Literary Criticism

Deaf Epistemologies Multiple Perspectives on the Acquisition of Knowledge

Paul Peter V., Moores Donald F.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685255, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table

Epistemology is the study of how "knowledge" is formed. Standard epistemology isolates the "known" from the "knowers", thereby defining "knowledge" as objectively constant. Multiple epistemologies suggest that individuals learn in different ways shap...

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Discourse in Signed Languages

Roy Cynthia B.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685118, Gallaudet University Press, November 2011
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 51 figures

In this volume, editor Cynthia B. Roy presents a stellar cast of cognitive linguists, sociolinguists, and discourse analysts to discover and demonstrate how sign language users make sense of what is going on within their social and cultural contexts...

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Linguistics

Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces

Kempson Ruth, Gregoromichelaki Eleni, Howes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781575866147, ISBN: HB: 9781575866154, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
402 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration o...

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Biography & Memoires

Deaf in DC A Memoir

Vasishta Madan

ISBN: PB: 9781563684814, Gallaudet University Press, January 2011
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos

In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where "deaf" meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his accept...

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General

Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Burch Susan, Kafer Alison

ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...

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Criminology

Deadly Charm The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer

Vernon McCay, Vernon Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781563684432, Gallaudet University Press, May 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

From the day he was born, Patrick McCullough faced hardships and reacted with untempered anger. His mother, a soon-to-be-divorced military wife, was late to realize that he was deaf and never learned how to handle his outbursts. Eventually, she aband...

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