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Encounters: Student Book 4 Chinese Language and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300161656, Yale University Press, March 2019
320 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 180 colour illus.
Designed for English-speaking students ready to embark on the adventure of learning Mandarin Chinese, "Encounters" accelerates proficiency and cultural understanding through authentic language and cultural experiences. This fully integrated program i...
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£60,00
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Here or There Research on Interpreting via Video Link
ISBN: HB: 9781944838225, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 tables, 11 illus., 5 figures
The field of sign language interpreting is undergoing an exponential increase in the delivery of services through remote and video technologies. The nature of these technologies challenges established notions of interpreting as a situated, communicat...
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£71,50
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Encounters: Student Book 3 Chinese Language and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300161649, Yale University Press, August 2017
272 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 180 colour illus.
Designed for English-speaking students ready to embark on the adventure of learning Mandarin Chinese, "Encounters" accelerates proficiency and cultural understanding through authentic language and cultural experiences. This fully integrated program i...
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£55,00
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Prosodic Markers and Utterance Boundaries in American Sign Language Interpretation
ISBN: PB: 9781563685712, ISBN: HB: 9781563684128, Gallaudet University Press, January 2017
178 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In interpreting, professionals must be able to convey to their clients the rhythm, stress, and length of phrases used by the communicating parties to indicate their respective emotional states. Such subtleties, which can signal sarcasm and irony or w...
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£34,00
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£49,00
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Linguistic Coping Strategies in Sign Language Interpreting
ISBN: HB: 9781563686580, Gallaudet University Press, March 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure
This ground-breaking work, originally published 15 years ago, continues to serve as the primary reference on the theories of omission potential and translational contact in sign language interpreting. In the book, noted scholar Jemina Napier explores...
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Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Research Selected Papers from the First International Symposium
ISBN: HB: 9781563686481, Gallaudet University Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 3 figures, 7 photos
This volume brings together the best research presented at the first International Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research. Editors Brenda Nicodemus and Keith Cagle have gathered an international group of contributors who a...
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£52,50
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Legal Rights The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (6th Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781563686443, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of "Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People" meticulously describes those statutes that prohibit d...
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£26,50
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 21
ISBN: PB: 9781575866543, ISBN: HB: 9781575866536, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
500 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the twenty-first Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at Se...
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£32,00
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£60,00
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Investigations in Healthcare Interpreting
ISBN: HB: 9781563686122, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables
In healthcare, the accuracy of interpretation is the most critical component of safe and effective communication between providers and patients in medical settings characterized by language and cultural barriers. Although medical education should pre...
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£68,00
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Voyage to the Island
ISBN: PB: 9781563686412, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
Raija Nieminen, a deaf woman from Finland, had been leading a very full life as both a librarian and mother of two children. Then her husband Jukka won an exciting new job designing the harbor in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Raija suddenly need...
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£22,50
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