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Elements of French Deaf Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781944838560, Gallaudet University Press, March 2020
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 8 tables, 2 figures, 46 photos
French Deaf culture is regarded as a major influence on the formation of other Deaf cultures around the world, notably American Deaf culture. In "Elements of French Deaf Heritage", Ulf Hedberg and Harlan Lane document the development of Deaf culture...
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£44,00
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Let’s Go In My Journey to a University Presidency
ISBN: PB: 9781944838621, Gallaudet University Press, March 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos
Alan Hurwitz ascended the ranks of academia to become the president of not one, but two, universities – National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology and Gallaudet University. In "Let's Go In: My Journey to a Universi...
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£23,00
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Sounds Like Home Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
ISBN: PB: 9781944838584, Gallaudet University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 photos
Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life f...
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£25,00
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Deaf Eyes on Interpreting
ISBN: HB: 9781944838270, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 figures, 3 tables
As the ASL-English interpreting field has become professionalized, there is a growing disconnect between interpreters and the Deaf consumers they serve. Whereas interpreting used to be a community-based practice, the field is growing into a research-...
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£60,00
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Interpreting in the Zone How the Conscious and Unconscious Function in Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9781563686665, Gallaudet University Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 figures, 23 tables
Successful interpretation can feel seamless, an intuitive and efficient translation of meaning from one signed or spoken language to another. Yet the process of interpretation is actually quite complex and relies upon myriad components ranging from p...
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£56,00
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Signing and Belonging in Nepal
ISBN: HB: 9781563686641, Gallaudet University Press, June 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 3 photos
While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framewor...
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£45,00
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Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters A New Paradigm
ISBN: PB: 9781563685675, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 2 tables, 17 figures
"Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters: A New Paradigm" defines a new model that depends upon strong partnerships between the growing number of deaf experts and their interpreters. Editors Peter C. Hauser, Karen L. Finch, and Angela B. Hause...
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£41,50
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My Life with Kangaroos A Deaf Woman's Remarkable Story
ISBN: PB: 9781563685590, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 photos
Doris Herrmann was born deaf in 1933 in Basel, Switzerland, and from the age of three, she possessed a mystical attraction to kangaroos. She recalls seeing them at that age for the first time at the Basel Zoo, and spending every spare moment visiting...
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£19,00
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Social Constructions of Deafness Examining Deaf Languacultures in Education
ISBN: HB: 9781563685415, Gallaudet University Press, January 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 photos
Thomas P. Horejes's new book focuses on revealing critical knowledge that addresses certain social justice issues, including deafness, language, culture, and deaf education. He conveys this information through discourses about his own experiences bei...
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£52,50
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Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community
ISBN: HB: 9781563685453, Gallaudet University Press, December 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 photos
In a diverse signing community, it is not unusual to encounter a wide variety of expression in the types of signs used by different people. Perceptions of signing proficiency often vary within the community, however. Conventional wisdom intimates tha...
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