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Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes
ISBN: PB: 9780226763347, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The construction of such subjective representations is known as ve...
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£32,00
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That's the Ticket for Soup! Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of "Punch"
ISBN: HB: 9781851245529, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
120 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 34 black&white illus.
The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable and unfashionable slang, its c...
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£14,99
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Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen
ISBN: PB: 9781684000487, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, May 2019
599 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the fo...
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£34,00
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Truth about Language What It Is and Where It Came From
ISBN: HB: 9780226287195, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident – a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the pro...
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£22,50
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Translating Worlds The Epistemological Space of Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780986132513, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide...
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£19,00
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Teaching and Learning in Bilingual Classrooms New Scholarship
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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£60,00
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Telling Deaf Lives Agents of Change
ISBN: PB: 9781563686191, Gallaudet University Press, October 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos, tables, figures
In July 2012, the 8th Deaf History International (DHI) Conference featured 27 presentations from members of Deaf communities around the world who related their own autobiographies as well as the biographies of historical Deaf individuals. The present...
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£26,50
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Traditio An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781611686388, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2014
434 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Now in its third edition, "Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence" has firmly established its excellence as a textbook, whether for use in a full-year course or in a more intensive program of study. The text is designed to...
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£52,00
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Traditio Workbook for the Third Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781611686906, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2014
242 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Now in its third edition, "Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence" has firmly established its excellence as a textbook, whether for use in a full-year course or in a more intensive program of study. The text is designed to...
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£24,00
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Turning the Tide Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren
ISBN: PB: 9781563685996, Gallaudet University Press, February 2014
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Both Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle know what it is like to be the only deaf student in a mainstream school. Though they became successful educators, they recognize the need to research the same isolation experienced by other deaf and hard of h...
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£22,50
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