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Form and Meaning in Language Volume III: Papers on Linguistic Theory and Constructions

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781684000562, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
330 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questio...

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Linguistics

Bantu Applicative Constructions

Pacchiarotti Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781684000593, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
0 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book addresses various shortcomings in definitions of "applicative" when compared to what is actually found across languages and proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, especially relevant to Bantu, a large family of lan...

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Linguistics

Revisiting the Essential Indexical

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781684000524, ISBN: HB: 9781684000616, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
146 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical". He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions ab...

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Criminology

Linguistics

Discourse of Police Interviews

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Sounds Like Home Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

Herring Wright Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781944838584, Gallaudet University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 photos

Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life f...

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Academic Foundations of Interpreting Studies An Introduction to Its Theories

Roy Cynthia B., Brunson Jeremy, Stone Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781944838379, Gallaudet University Press, September 2019
224 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

"The Academic Foundations of Interpreting Studies" is the first introductory course book that explores the theoretical foundations used in sign language interpreting studies. Authors Roy, Brunson, and Stone examine the disciplines whose theoretical f...

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Education

Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education Pursuing Evidence-Based Practices

Roy Cynthia B., Winston Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781944838331, Gallaudet University Press, September 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection contributes to an emerging body of research in sign language interpreter education, a field in which research on teaching practices has been rare. "The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education" investigates learning experi...

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Biography & Memoires

Paris in America A Deaf Nanticoke Shoemaker and His Daughter

Mosl Hall Clare Jean, Williamson Gayle

ISBN: PB: 9781944838355, Gallaudet University Press, September 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Clara Jean Mosley Hall has inhabited various cultural worlds in her life: Native American, African American, Deaf, and hearing. The hearing daughter of a Deaf Nanticoke Indian, who grew up in Dover, Delaware's black community in the 1950s and 60s, Ha...

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Biography & Memoires

Between Two Worlds My Life as a Child of Deaf Adults

Sorensen David

ISBN: PB: 9781944838539, Gallaudet University Press, June 2019
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 photos

In his memoir, David Sorensen explores his identity as a coda, or a child of Deaf adults. He describes his experiences with the roles often placed on codas at a young age, such as interpreter, confidant, and decision-maker. His story reveals a person...

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Linguistics

Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen

Condoravdi Cleo, Holloway King Tracy

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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