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Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research

Rice Sally, Newman John

ISBN: PB: 9781575866123, ISBN: HB: 9781575866130, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
369 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research" consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the University of Alberta in October 2004. The paper...

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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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Chinese

Exploring in Chinese Volume 2: A Second-year Curriculum

Ning Cynthia

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780300115833, Yale University Press, November 2007
352 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

"Exploring in Chinese" is an intermediate-level multimedia Chinese program consisting of a student text and accompanying DVD that uses unscripted dialogues as the basis for students to make the transition from the basic skills acquired at the element...

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Exploring in Chinese Volume 1: A Second-year Curriculum

Ning Cynthia

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780300115697, Yale University Press, September 2007
304 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

"Exploring in Chinese" is an intermediate-level multimedia Chinese program consisting of a student text and accompanying DVD that uses unscripted dialogues as the basis for students to make the transition from the basic skills acquired at the element...

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Sign Language

General

Emergence of the Deaf Community in Nicaragua "With Sign Language You Can Learn So Much"

Polich Laura

ISBN: HB: 9781563683244, Gallaudet University Press, October 2005
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos

The sudden discovery of Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) enthralled scholars worldwide who hoped to witness the evolution of a new language. But controversy erupted regarding the validity of NSL as a genuinely spontaneous language created by young chil...

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Education

Educational Interpreting How It Can Succeed

Winston Elizabeth A.

ISBN: HB: 9781563683091, Gallaudet University Press, February 2005
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

This incisive book explores the current state of educational interpreting and how it is failing deaf students. The contributors, all renowned experts in their field, include former educational interpreters, teachers of deaf students, interpreter trai...

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Education

Educating Deaf Students Global Perspectives

Power Des, Leigh Greg

ISBN: HB: 9781563683084, Gallaudet University Press, January 2005
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

The 19th International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED) in 2000, held in Sydney, Australia, brought together 1,067 teachers, administrators and researchers from 46 countries to address an extremely wide selection of topics. Experts from arou...

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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Edmund Booth Deaf Pioneer

Lang Harry G.

ISBN: PB: 9781563682735, Gallaudet University Press, September 2004
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Edmund Booth was born in 1810 and died in 1905, and during the 94 years of his life, he epitomized virtually everything that characterized an American legend of that century. In his prime, Booth stood 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighed in at 210 pounds,...

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Education

Enhancing Diversity Educators with Disabilities

Anderson Ronald J., Keller Clayton E., Karp Joan M.

ISBN: HB: 9781563680717, Gallaudet University Press, October 1998
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

The 43 million people with disabilities form this country's largest minority group, yet they are markedly under-employed as educators. Editors Anderson, Karp, and Keller and 19 other renowned contributors address this costly omission and other import...

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Linguistics

English Verb Classes and Alternations A Preliminary Investigation

Levin Beth

ISBN: PB: 9780226475332, University of Chicago Press, September 1993
366 pp., 23x15 cm

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for st...

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