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Japanese: The Written Language Volume 2: Textbook

Jorden Eleanor Harz, Noda Mari, Itomitsu Masayuki, Marcus Ginger

ISBN: PB: 9780300109542, Yale University Press, April 2018
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 90 black&white illus.

The second volume of "Japanese: The Written Language" guides high-beginning learners toward proficiency in reading and composing Japanese in realistic contexts. Building on the katakana syllabary presented in Volume 1, it introduces the hiragana syll...

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Chinese

Epistemic Modality in Standard Spoken Tibetan Epistemic Verbal Endings and Copulas

Vokurkova Zuzana

ISBN: PB: 9788024635880, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second largest in the world, and standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken language in the Tibetic group. A comprehensive introduction to epistemic...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 24

Funakoshi Kenshi

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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Sign Language

Indian Sign Language An Analysis of Its Grammar

Sinha Samar

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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Sign Language

Education

Language, Power, and Resistance Mainstreaming Deaf Education

Mathews Elizabeth S.

ISBN: HB: 9781944838041, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table

The current policy of educating d/Deaf and h/Hard of hearing (DHH) students in a mainstream setting, rather than in the segregated environments of deaf schools, has been portrayed as a positive step forward in creating greater equality for DHH studen...

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Sign Language

General

Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s

Carty Breda

ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos

This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...

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Biography & Memoires

My Life of Language A Memoir

Ogden Paul W.

ISBN: PB: 9781944838140, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 photos

Paul W. Ogden has dedicated his life to educating young deaf and hard of hearing people and raising awareness of what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. He has taught and mentored a generation of teachers, and his classic volume, The Silent Gard...

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Sign Language

Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language A Study of Language Use and Attitudes

Tamene Eyasu Hailu

ISBN: HB: 9781944838065, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 figures

Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million membe...

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Spanish

El Jardin Silencioso (Second Edition) UNA Guia Para Los Padres Para Criar a Un Nino Sordo

Ogden Paul W., Smith David H.

ISBN: PB: 9781944838164, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
109 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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 new Spanish edition, which contains the first five chapters of the completely up...

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Biography & Memoires

Surviving in Silence A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, The Harry I. Dunai Story

Dunai Eleanor C., Dunai Harry I.

ISBN: PB: 9781563682353, ISBN: HB: 9781563681196, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Izrael Zachariah Deutsch was born on March 15, 1934, in Komjata, Czechoslovakia. The second youngest child, Izrael lived a bucolic existence with nine brothers and sisters on a farm, differing from them only in that he was deaf. When he was six, his...

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