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Languages of Scandinavia Seven Sisters of the North
ISBN: PB: 9780226759753, ISBN: HB: 9780226493893, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables
From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understo...
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£20,00
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£26,00
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Between Two Worlds My Life as a Child of Deaf Adults
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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£23,00
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Gesture in Multiparty Interaction
ISBN: HB: 9781944838430, Gallaudet University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm
"Gesture in Multiparty Interaction" confronts the competing views that exist regarding gesture's relationship to language. In this work, Emily Shaw examines embodied discourses in American Sign Language and spoken English and seeks to establish conne...
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£60,00
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Indian Sign Language An Analysis of Its Grammar
ISBN: HB: 9781944838089, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 266 photos, 40 tables, 10 figures
Samar Sinha presents pioneering research into the grammatical properties of Indian Sign Language (ISL), a language used by members of the Deaf community in India. This detailed and well-illustrated study describes the grammar of ISL and is supplement...
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£49,00
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Animal Signs A First Book of Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563680496, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Charming, full-color photographs of basic animals plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words. Constructed of sturdy cardboard with a protective finish on each p...
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£6,00
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Word Signs A First Book of Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563680489, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Charming, full-color photographs of basic words plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words. Constructed of sturdy cardboard with a protective finish on each pag...
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£6,00
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Language of Light A History of Silent Voices
ISBN: HB: 9780300215434, Yale University Press, September 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly researched book, he uncovers the centuries-long struggle of the Deaf to be taught in sign languag...
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£14,99
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Jacy An Implemented Grammar of Japanese
ISBN: PB: 9781684000180, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This book describes the fundamentals of Jacy, an implementation of a Japanese head-driven phrase structure grammar with many useful linguistic implications. Jacy presents sound information about the Japanese language (syntax, semantics, and pragmatic...
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£30,00
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Adventures of a Deaf-Mute and Other Short Pieces
ISBN: PB: 9781563686832, Gallaudet University Press, February 2017
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 4 figures, 1 illus.
In "Adventures of a Deaf-Mute", Deaf New Englander William B. Swett recounts his adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the late 1860s. Given to us in short, energetic episodes, Swett tells daring stories of narrow escapes from death a...
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£19,00
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Translating Worlds The Epistemological Space of Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780986132513, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide...
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