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Deaf Students and the Qualitative Similarity Hypothesis Understanding Language and Literacy Development
ISBN: HB: 9781563685842, Gallaudet University Press, December 2013
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 3 figures, 10 tables
The difficulty that deaf and hard of hearing students have in attaining language and literacy skills has led to postulations that attribute their struggle to a developmental deficit. Recent research reveals, however, that deaf students acquire langua...
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£64,00
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Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563685736, Gallaudet University Press, December 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 figures, 25 sign illus.
The meaning of any linguistic expression resides not only in the words, but also in the ways that those words are conveyed. In her new study, Miako N. P. Rankin highlights the crucial interrelatedness of form and meaning at all levels in order to con...
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£60,00
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Science from Sight to Insight How Scientists Illustrate Meaning
ISBN: PB: 9780226068480, ISBN: HB: 9780226068206, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones, 46 line drawings
John Dalton's molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick's double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world – and the key concepts that explain it – is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images....
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£26,00
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£78,00
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More Than Meets the Eye Revealing the Complexities of an Interpreted Education
ISBN: HB: 9781563685798, Gallaudet University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 10 tables
Sign language interpreters often offer the primary avenue of access for deaf and hard of hearing students in public schools. More than 80% of all deaf children today are mainstreamed, and few of their teachers sign well enough to provide them with fu...
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£64,00
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Evolving Paradigms in Interpreter Education
ISBN: HB: 9781563685699, Gallaudet University Press, November 2013
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 4 figures
This volume brings together a cadre of world-renowned interpreting educators and researchers who conduct a rich exploration of paradigms, both old and new, in interpreter education. They review existing research, explicate past and current practices,...
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£52,50
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Russian Full Circle A First Year Russian Textbook
ISBN: HB: 9780300182835, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 30 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.
"Russian Full Circle" is a fresh approach to the Russian textbook. Deliberately "bare-bones" in its design, this textbook allows instructors to deliver in one academic year a full first-year Russian language curriculum. It consists of ten lessons tha...
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£65,00
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Around the Globe Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists
ISBN: PB: 9788024622262, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this unusual and important new work, Miroslav Vanek interviews twelve experts on oral history to discuss the medium's current status within the social sciences in light of recent techno...
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£15,00
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Introduction to Contemporary Spoken Arabic A Conversational Course on DVD, Part 2
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780300159042, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This text-and-DVD package can be used to improve the conversational skills of second- to third-semester beginning Arabic students. It helps students as they begin to express themselves in Arabic, guiding them through language functions such as introd...
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£30,00
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Interaction of Tone with Voicing and Foot Structure Evidence from Kera Phonetics and Phonology
ISBN: PB: 9781575866086, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm
This book investigates the topics of tone, vowel harmony, and metrical structure, with special reference to Kera, a Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Kera is a tone language where a change in the pitch of the word can make a difference to...
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£40,00
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Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies
ISBN: PB: 9788024621562, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
140 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collaborative monograph will commemorate the centenary of the Prague English Studies, officially inaugurated in 1912 by the appointment of Vilem Mathesius. Apart from reassessing the...
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£15,00
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