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Form and Meaning in Language Volume II: Papers on Discourse and Pragmatics
ISBN: PB: 9781684000548, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
335 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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Form and Meaning in Language Volume III: Papers on Linguistic Theory and Constructions
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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Silent Life and Silent Language The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf
ISBN: PB: 9781944838294, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
200 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Silent Life and Silent Language" presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and enter...
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£25,00
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 24
ISBN: PB: 9781684000241, ISBN: HB: 9781684000258, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both language...
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£49,00
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It's a Small World International Deaf Spaces and Encounters
ISBN: HB: 9781563686528, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 11 figures
"It's a Small World" explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME ("I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same") and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national...
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Barrel of Monkeys A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
ISBN: HB: 9781851244454, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
144 pp., 17x11 cm, 110 black&white illus.
We're all familiar with "a flock of sheep" but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, from fifteenth-century hunting terms to more recent inventions that have now entered the language, t...
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 20
ISBN: PB: 9781575866383, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
550 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...
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£28,00
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Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781555001094, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
720 pp., 28x21.5 cm
An updated and comprehensive reference to the Aleut-Eskimo languages spoken from the northeastern tip of Siberia all the way east to Greenland, this easy-to-use volume groups related words from the modern Eskimo languages in comparative sets with the...
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£45,00
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Grammar, Geometry, and Brain
ISBN: PB: 9781575865928, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
120 pp., 23x15 cm
This original study considers the effects of language and meaning on the brain. Jens Erik Fenstad – an expert in the fields of recursion theory, nonstandard analysis, and natural language semantics – combines current formal semantics with a geometric...
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Deaf History and Culture in Spain A Reader of Primary Documents
ISBN: HB: 9781563684197, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
260 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 photos
In this landmark reader, Benjamin Fraser offers in five parts 44 Spanish documents dating from 1417 to the present, translated for the first time to trace the turbulent history of Deaf culture in Spain. Part I: The Birth of Oralism and Deafness as Me...
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