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Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create Digital Institutions
ISBN: HB: 9780226438214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool – it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis...
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£30,00
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Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions
ISBN: HB: 9780226363523, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 15 line drawings, 14 tables
Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these...
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£52,50
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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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German Phonetics and Phonology Theory and Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780300196504, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 58 black&white illus.
The first course book designed to engage students in the pronunciation of modern German by grounding practice in theory An essential introduction to the pronunciation of modern German, this unique classroom text is designed to help mid- to upper-leve...
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£50,00
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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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Understanding International Sign A Sociolinguistic Study
ISBN: HB: 9781563686726, Gallaudet University Press, December 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 figures, 52 tables
In "Understanding International Sign", Lori A. Whynot examines International Sign (IS) to determine the extent it is comprehended by signers from different countries. She focuses exclusively on expository lecture IS used in conference settings and pr...
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£68,00
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Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities Envisioning the Future for Deaf Students
ISBN: HB: 9781563686788, Gallaudet University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Increased interaction between sign language communities and the mainstream societies in which they function is creating the potential for greater equality of opportunity for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In this volume, renowned scholars a...
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£64,00
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Silent Garden A Parent's Guide to Raising a Deaf Child
ISBN: PB: 9781563686764, Gallaudet University Press, November 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 figures, 2 tables
For over 30 years, "The Silent Garden" has offered parents of deaf children the support and unbiased information needed to fully realize their children's potential. This completely revised third edition is a must-have resource that will help parents...
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£26,00
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And No Birds Sing
ISBN: PB: 9781563686689, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 photographs
Originally published in 1931, this memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with...
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£26,00
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