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Disability Protests Contentious Politics, 1970-1999
ISBN: HB: 9781563681127, Gallaudet University Press, October 2001
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Part and parcel to the civil rights movements of the past thirty years has been a sustained, coordinated effort among disabled Americans to secure equal rights and equal access to that of non-disabled people. Beyond merely providing a history of this...
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£71,00
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More Baby's First Signs
ISBN: PB: 9781563681158, Gallaudet University Press, September 2001
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Every parent knows the frustration of trying to satisfy the demands of an infant too young to communicate his or her thoughts. Now, a growing consensus of researchers agree that not only deaf children but also hearing children can benefit from early...
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£6,00
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Baby's First Signs
ISBN: PB: 9781563681141, Gallaudet University Press, September 2001
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Every parent knows the frustration of trying to satisfy the demands of an infant too young to communicate his or her thoughts. Now, a growing consensus of researchers agree that not only deaf children but also hearing children can benefit from early...
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Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563681134, Gallaudet University Press, August 2001
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The culmination of a seven-year project, this volume provides a complete description of American Sign Language (ASL) variation. For four decades, linguists have studied how people from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the...
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£47,50
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Language in Hand Why Sign Came Before Speech
ISBN: HB: 9781563681035, Gallaudet University Press, June 2001
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
William C. Stokoe offers here in his final book his formula for the development of language in humans: gesture-to-language-to-speech. He refutes the recently entrenched principles that humans have a special, innate learning faculty for language and t...
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£37,50
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Context, Cognition, and Deafness
ISBN: HB: 9781563681059, Gallaudet University Press, June 2001
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
"Context, Cognition, and Deafness" examines the effect of environment and social settings upon the cognitive development of deaf children. Its interdisciplinary approach clarifies the frequently conflicting results of past studies by analyzing many m...
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£66,00
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Maganar Hannu: Language of the Hands A Descriptive Analysis of Hansa Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9783927731707, Gallaudet University Press, April 2001
320 pp., 24.6x16.5 cm
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£49,50
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Metaphor in American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563680991, Gallaudet University Press, March 2001
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Only recently have linguists ceased to regard metaphors as mere frills on the periphery of language and begun to recognize them as cornerstones of discourse. Phyllis Wilcox takes this innovation one step further in her fascinating study of metaphors...
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£50,50
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Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities
ISBN: PB: 9781563681080, Gallaudet University Press, February 2001
246 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
This collection offers a wide variety of fascinating studies that consider multicultural aspects among deaf people worldwide. Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner investigate variation in the use of gay, lesbian, and bisexual signs in the Deaf community; J...
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£40,00
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Orchid of the Bayou A Deaf Woman Faces Blindess
ISBN: PB: 9781563681042, Gallaudet University Press, February 2001
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Mama knew I was 'not right'" Kitty Fischer says of her early childhood in Louisiana. Even though her mother never said it, Kitty knew she meant "deaf and dumb". Her communication difficulties were compounded by the bias her family endured for being...
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£22,50
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