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Word Signs A First Book of Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563680489, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Charming, full-color photographs of basic words plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words. Constructed of sturdy cardboard with a protective finish on each pag...
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£6,00
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Women and Deafness Double Visions
ISBN: PB: 9781563686177, Gallaudet University Press, October 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 19 figures, sign illus.
This new collection bridges two dynamic academic fields: Women's Studies and Deaf Studies. The 14 contributors to this interdisciplinary volume apply research and methodological approaches from sociology, ethnography, literary/film studies, history,...
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£28,00
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Ware's Victorian Dictionary of Slang and Phrase
ISBN: PB: 9781851244485, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
288 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm
Acutely aware of the changes in English usage at the close of the Victorian era, the lexicographer James Redding Ware (1832-1909) decided to record for posterity new and archaic words and phrases from all walks of life, from the curses in common use...
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£9,99
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What Is Said and What Is Not The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
ISBN: HB: 9781575866680, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said", the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between seman...
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£49,00
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Written on Bamboo and Silk The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226814162, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 26 halftones, 4 line illus.
Paleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this now-classic paleographic study of China, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien traces the developme...
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£24,00
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Why Translation Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300171303, Yale University Press, March 2011
160 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm
"Why Translation Matters" argues for the cultural importance of translation, and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to sti...
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£14,99
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World Color Survey
ISBN: PB: 9781575864167, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
600 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
The 1969 publication of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's "Basic Color Terms" proved explosive and controversial. Contrary to the then-popular doctrine of random language variation, Berlin and Kay's multilingual study of color nomenclature indicated a cros...
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£40,00
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Working Text Teaching Deaf and Second-Language Students to Be Better Writers
ISBN: PB + CD: 9781563684661, Gallaudet University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 2 figures
After teaching developmental writing to deaf students for may years, Sue Livingston found that students who can read and analyze written texts become better writers. They achieve their improvement by reading, then writing about what they have read. L...
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£34,00
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Working Text X-Word Grammar and Writing Activities for Students
ISBN: PB: 9781563684685, Gallaudet University Press, September 2010
128 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
"Working Test: X-Word Grammar and Writing Activities for Students" features 86 X-Word Grammar reading and writing exercises divided into five parts of increasing complexity. Deaf, second-language, and other students experiencing difficulty with Engli...
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£15,00
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Whispers of a Savage Sort And Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience
ISBN: PB: 9781563684203, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Oh, why can't the deaf community be more like a family?" is the plaint of a character in Raymond Luczak's title play Whispers of a Savage Sort. It also goes far in characterizing the main thread that runs through his remarkable collection of work of...
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£37,50
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