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Linguistics

Kempson Ruth, Gregoromichelaki Eleni, Howes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781575866147, ISBN: HB: 9781575866154, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
402 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration o...

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Linguistics

World Color Survey

Kay Paul, Berlin Brent, Maffi Luisa, Merrifield William R., Cook Richard

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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Linguistics

Selected Papers on Fun and Games

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575865843, ISBN: HB: 9781575865850, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Donald E. Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become cl...

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Biography & Memoires

Blind Rage Letters to Helen Keller

Kleege Georgina

ISBN: PB: 9781563682957, Gallaudet University Press, September 2006
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 photo

As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, "Why can't you be more like Helen Keller?" Kleege's resentment culminates in her book "Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller", an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned in...

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Performing Arts

Hearing Difference The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theater

Kochhar-Lindgren Kanta

ISBN: HB: 9781563682902, Gallaudet University Press, May 2006
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This engrossing study investigates the connections between hearing and deafness in experimental, Deaf, and multicultural theater. Author Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren focuses on how to articulate a Deaf aesthetic and how to grasp the meaning of moments of "...

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Fiction

Mighty Change An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816-1864

Krentz Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781563681011, Gallaudet University Press, December 2000
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume contains original writing by deaf people from the first half of the nineteenth century, a period of transformation for deaf Americans that saw the rise of deaf education and the coalescence of the nation's deaf community. It begins with w...

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Speechreading A Way To Improve Understanding

Kaplan Harriet

ISBN: PB: 9780930323325, Gallaudet University Press, June 1985
148 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

"Speechreading: A Way to Improve Understanding" discusses the nature and process of speechreading, its benefits, and its limitations. This useful book clarifies commonly-held misconceptions about speechreading. The beginning chapters address difficul...

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