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Linguistics

Dancygier Barbara, Borkent Mike, Hinnell Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781575866710, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2014
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and...

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Basic Czech I Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623344, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech. The first volume presents the basics of the Czech language by mean...

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Basic Czech II Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024625140, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech".Basic Czech" II is structured similarly, but it moves students fro...

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Sign Language

General

Deaf Interpreters at Work International Insights

Adam Robert, Stone Christopher, Collins Steven D., Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563686092, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Now, for the first time, a collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars depicts the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights presents the history of Deaf translators a...

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Sign Language

From Topic Boundaries to Omission New Research on Interpretation

Metzger Melanie, Collins Steven D., Dively Valerie, Shaw Risa

ISBN: PB: 9781563686405, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables, 8 figures, 36 photos

This new collection examines several facets of signed language interpreting. Claudia Angelelli's study confirms that conference, courtroom, and medical interpretation can no longer be seen as a two-party conversation with an "invisible" interpreter,...

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Education

History of Gallaudet University 150 Years of a Deaf American Institution

Armstrong David F.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685958, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 25 illus., 225 photos

On April 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress put into effect legislation authorizing the granting of collegiate degrees by the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. At this moment,...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Biography & Memoires

Building Bridges, Crossing Borders One Young Deaf Woman's Education

Darby Getty Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781563686078, Gallaudet University Press, May 2014
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 13 photos

Kyler Daniels was born in 1988 with a profound bilateral hearing loss. Her deafness went undetected for a year since newborn screening for hearing loss was not yet available. Kyler benefited, however, from the great support of her family and a string...

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Chinese

Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin: Intermediate Level

Wheatley Julian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141184, Yale University Press, April 2014
416 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 66 colour illus.

Designed to build language ability while stimulating curiosity, "Learning Chinese" teaches intermediate conversational and literary skills in Mandarin. Conversational lessons are separated from lessons on reading and writing characters, allowing inst...

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Education

Other

Being a Language Teacher

Lopez-Burton Norma

ISBN: PB: 9780300186895, Yale University Press, April 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Being a Language Teacher" provides an innovative, personal approach to second language teaching. Through illustrative personal anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language teachers through key pedagogical strategies while encouraging produc...

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