Sign language and Braille Books
Redleaf Press Sign to Learn: American Sign Language in the
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£21.56
De Gruyter L2 Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe aim of this pioneering volume is to advance our understanding of written language learning in instructed SLA by offering a collection of empirical studies in which the contribution of diverse theoretical perspectives to our understanding of L2 writing development will be explored. As such, the book represents a further attempt to situate written language learning at the core of applied linguistics research, in general, and SLA research, in particular, hence attempting to redress the oral bias of theoretical and empirical work in these fields. It adds a further building block onto recent TESOL initiatives aimed at understanding "development" in second and foreign language learning. Continuity from one chapter to another is provided by adherence to a consistent chapter model. The volume will be of great interest to academics in the disciplines of second/foreign language acquisition (SLA) and second/foreign language (L2) writing.
£103.55
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Conversations with Interpreter Educators –
Book SynopsisSign language interpreter education is a relatively young field that is moving toward more theory-based and research-oriented approaches. The concept of sharing research, which is strongly encouraged in this academic community, inspired Christine Monikowski to develop a volume that collects and distills the best teaching practices of leading academics in the interpreting field. In Conversations with Interpreter Educators, Monikowski assembles a group of 17 professors in the field of sign language interpretation. Through individual interviews conducted via Skype, Monikowski engages them in informal conversations about their teaching experiences and the professional publications that have influenced their teaching philosophies. She guides each conversation by asking these experts to share a scholarly publication that they assign to their students. They discuss the merits of the text and its role in the classroom, which serves to highlight the varying goals each professor sets for students. The complexity of the interpreting task, self-reflection, critical thinking, linguistics, backchannel feedback, and cultural understanding are a sampling of topics explored in these exchanges. Engaging and accessible, Monikowski's conversations offer evidence-based practices that will inform and inspire her fellow educators.
£42.75
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Indian Sign Language – An Analysis of Its Grammar
Book SynopsisSamar 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 supplemented by comparative and theoretical analyses in the core areas of sublexical structure, morphology, and syntax. Sinha offers a field-based, comprehensive analysis that covers topics such as sign formation parameters, syllable structure, sonority hierarchy, semantics of space, pluralization strategies, phi-features, indexing and localization, agreement, and word order. He provides a description of the Indian Deaf community that serves to frame his analysis of ISL and highlights the need for greater awareness and acknowledgment of the language and its users. The lack of research on ISL in Indian academia has slowed efforts toward the standardization of ISL and the development of pedagogical materials. This work adds to the growing understanding of natural human language in general and ISL in particular. It also contributes to the empowerment of the Deaf community in India and will strengthen the efforts carried out by d/Deaf activists and researchers.
£46.55
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Managing Their Own Affairs – The Australian Deaf
Book SynopsisThis 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 largely controlled by hearing people and run as charitable institutions. These developments were influenced by wider social movements in Australian society, such as the articulation of minority groups as citizens, and their search for autonomy and equal rights.
£60.00
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Here or There – Research on Interpreting via
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£67.92
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Signed Language Interpreting in the 21st Century
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£50.35
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Gesture in Multiparty Interaction
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£57.00
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Professional Autonomy in Video Relay Service
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£46.55
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. The Second International Symposium on Signed Lan
Book SynopsisThe Second International Symposium on Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Research was a rare opportunity for hearing and Deaf students, researchers, educators, and practitioners to come together and learn about current research in Interpretation and Translation Studies. These selected papers are comprised of research conducted in places such as Australia, Flanders, France, and Ghana, creating a volume that is international in scope. Editors Danielle I. J. Hunt and Emily Shaw have collected papers that represent the advances in the depth and diversity of knowledge in the field of signed language interpretation and translation research. Chapter topics include the use of haptic signals when interpreting for Deafblind people, the role of French Deaf translators during the 2015 Paris terror attacks, and Deaf employees’ perspectives on interpreting in the workplace. Signed chapter summaries will be available on the Gallaudet University Press YouTube channel upon publication.
£57.00
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Deaf Eyes on Interpreting
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£38.00
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Video Relay Service Interpreters: Intricacies of
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£26.60
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis unique reference can help users locate a sign whose meaning they have forgotten, or help them find the meaning of a new sign they have just seen for the first time. It organizes more than 1,900 ASL signs by 40 basic handshapes and includes detailed descriptions on how to form these signs to represent the different English words that they might mean. Users can begin to track down a sign by determining whether it is formed with one hand or two. Further distinctions of handshape, palm orientation, location, movement, and nonmanual signals help them pinpoint their search while also refining their grasp of ASL syntax and grammar. A complete English word index provides the option of referring to an alphabetical listing of English terms to locate an equivalent sign or choice of signs. This dictionary features: More than 1,900 sign illustrations, organized by handshape; Complete index of English vocabulary for all signs; An introduction to Deaf culture and ASL structureTrade Review“The second edition of The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary is a handy reference. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students, general readers, and professionals.” * CHOICE *"This reference complements other ASL dictionaries by organizing signs by handshape rather than alphabetically by English word order. In so doing, it acts best as a recognition tool for the ASL learner, leading the user quickly to specific signs without having first to refer to an English-equivalent word. Multiple meanings of a single sign also allow deaf people to increase their English vocabulary. A worthwhile complement to a public or academic library collection." * Library Journal *"Look up the sign, find the word! It presents students, sign language teachers, and Deaf people alike with a genuinely innovative resource to hone communication skills in both ASL and English." * Deaf Life *"Every student of ASL should have this book. It would also be an excellent reference book for deaf students who want to create ABC stories, a popular form of ASL storytelling." -- Kim B. Kurz * Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *
£28.00
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Advances in Educational Interpreting
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£60.80
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Guidelines for Multilingual Deaf Education
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£10.43
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Legal Interpreting – Teaching, Research, and
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£57.00
Gallaudet University Press Signed Language Corpora: Volume 25
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£72.00
Gallaudet University Press Signed Language Interpreting Pedagogy – Insights
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£79.80
Gallaudet University Press Deaf Studies for Educators
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£31.12
Classiques Garnier Traductologie Et Langue Des Signes
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£66.42
De Gruyter Body - Language - Communication. Volume 2
Book SynopsisVolume II of the handbook offers a unique collection of exemplary case studies. In five chapters and 99 articles it presents the state of the art on how body movements are used for communication around the world. Topics include the functions of body movements, their contexts of occurrence, their forms and meanings, their integration with speech, and how bodily motion can function as language. By including an interdisciplinary chapter on ‘embodiment’, volume II explores the body and its role in the grounding of language and communication from one of the most widely discussed current theoretical perspectives. Volume II of the handbook thus entails the following chapters: VI. Gestures across cultures, VII. Body movements: functions, contexts and interactions, VIII. Gesture and language,IX. Embodiment: the body and its role for cognition, emotion, and communication, X. Sign Language: Visible body movements as language. Authors include: Mats Andrèn, Richard Asheley, Benjamin Bergen, Ulrike Bohle, Dominique Boutet, Heather Brookes, Penelope Brown, Kensy Cooperrider, Onno Crasborn, Seana Coulson, James Essegby, Maria Graziano, Marianne Gullberg, Simon Harrison, Hermann Kappelhoff, Mardi Kidwell, Irene Kimbara, Stefan Kopp, Grigoriy Kreidlin, Dan Loehr, Irene Mittelberg, Aliyah Morgenstern, Rafael Nuñez, Isabella Poggi, David Quinto-Pozos, Monica Rector, Pio Enrico Ricci-Bitti, Göran Sonesson, Timo Sowa, Gale Stam, Eve Sweetser, Mark Tutton, Ipke Wachsmuth, Linda Waugh, Sherman Wilcox.
£421.10
De Gruyter Iconicity and Verb Agreement: A Corpus-Based
Book SynopsisIn many sign languages around the world, some verbs express grammatical agreement, while many others do not. Curiously, there is a remarkable degree of semantic overlap across sign languages between verbs that do and do not possess agreement properties.This book scrutinizes the interaction between semantic and morphosyntactic structure in verb constructions in German Sign Language (DGS). Naturalistic dialogues from the DGS Corpus form the primary data source. It is shown that certain semantic properties, also known to govern transitivity marking in spoken languages, are predictive of verb type in DGS, where systematic iconic mappings play a mediating role. The results enable the formulation of cross-linguistic predictions about the interplay between verb semantics and verb type in sign languages. An analysis of the morphosyntactic properties of different verb types leads up to the conclusion that even ‘plain’ verbs agree with their arguments, where iconicity again plays a crucial role.The findings motivate a unified syntactic analysis in terms of agreement of constructions with verbs of all types, thus offering a novel solution to the typological puzzle that supposedly only a subset of verbs agree in DGS and other sign languages.
£143.28
De Gruyter Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People
Book SynopsisSign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have – except for a few scattered fragments in film – not been documented and are therefore under serious threat of being lost.The chapters compiled in this volume document important aspects of past and present experiences of elderly Deaf signers across Europe, as well as in Israel and the United States. Issues addressed include (i) historical events and how they were experienced by Deaf people, (ii) issues of identity and independence, (iii) aspects of language change, (iv) experiences of suppression and discrimination. The stories shared by elderly signers reveal intriguing, yet hidden, aspects of Deaf life. On the negative side, these include experiences of the Deaf in Nazi Germany and occupied countries and harsh practices in educational settings, to name a few. On the positive side, there are stories of resilience and vivid memories of school years and social and professional life.In this way, the volume contributes in a significant way to the preservation of the cultural and linguistic heritage of Deaf communities and sheds light on lesser known aspects against an otherwise familiar background. This publication has been made possible within the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
£21.85
De Gruyter Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive
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£28.80
Peter Lang AG 50 Years of Language Experiments with Great Apes
Book SynopsisThe book approaches the language experiments with great apes performed in the last 50 years from the point of view of logical semantics, speech act theory, and philosophy of the social sciences based on the linguistic turn in philosophy. The author reconstructs the experiments with the great apes Washoe, Chantek, Lana, Sherman, Austin, Kanzi, Sarah and Sheba who were taught various kinds of languages, including the language of mathematics. From the point of view of the philosophy of science these experiments are interpreted as being part of the social sciences. The book proposes new mathematical experiments that are based on modern semantical reconstruction of the language of mathematics. The author shows that modern scientific research into great apes has shifted from natural science to social science.Table of ContentsExperiments with the great apes Washoe, Chantek, Lana, Sherman, Austin, Kanzi, Sarah and Sheba – Various kinds of languages – Language of mathematics – Philosophy of science – Social sciences – New mathematical experiments – Modern semantical reconstruction of the language of mathematics
£20.85
Peter Lang AG Translation, Interpreting and Culture: Old
Book SynopsisThis book about the clash between old and new approaches to translation and interpreting focuses on the theoretical, methodological, empirical as well as paradigmatic tensions and intersections between various traditions in translation and interpreting studies. It does so not only from a generational perspective but also from geographical, sociocultural and political points of view, aiming to foster communication among them and reveal synergies between the latest research trends and pre-existing methodologies and approaches. It includes chapters on translation theory, history and criticism, interpreting in changing contexts, translation of texts that transcend genre, text type and media borders, and changes and challenges in translator and interpreter training. The book provides a platform to new voices in translation and interpreting studies and presents the ideas of traditionally less represented geographical areas in the mainstream of our discipline.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Marianna Bachledová: Translators and Publishers in Czechoslovakia (1968–1989): Followingand Subverting the Ideology - Marie Krappmann: The Translation of Yiddish Literature into Czech in JewishPeriodicals: The Impact of the Medium and the Genre of the Source Texton the Choice of Translation Strategies - Ludmila Lambeinová: Paratexts of Academic Texts: Polish History from a Czech Perspective - İmren Gökce Vaz De Carvalho: The Factors Influencing the Role of Sign Language Interpreters: The Caseof Turkey - Antony Hoyte-West: In A League of Their Own? Conference Interpreters Viewed Through thePrism of Elite Sociology - Mária Bakti: Fluency and Delivery in the Evaluation of InterpreterPerformance: Evidence from Evaluations from Trainers and the TargetAudience - Büşra Yaman: Hybridity and (Re)Contextuality as a Conceptual Tool in Selma Ekrem’sUnveiled and Its Turkish Translation - Maria Stasimioti, Vilelmini Sosoni, Katia Lida Kermanidis: Quality in Translation Crowdsourcing: A Case Study with Professionaland Non-Professional Translators - Marián Kabát: Toward a Context-Based Definition of Localization - Martin Djovčoš and Emília Perez: Training Future Professionals in Slovakia: Contexts, Changes andChallenges in Translator Training - Soňa Hodáková: To Be or Not to Be an Interpreter? Should Interpreter’s Training Changethe Personality or Subordinate Itself to It? - Pavol Šveda: Students’ Motivation and Their Subjective Readiness to Enter theTranslation Profession: A Survey of Four Different Universities in OneCountry - Conclusion
£50.04
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Der Gestische Ursprung Der Sprache: Die
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£21.30
Universitatsverlag Winter Ikonizitat
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£15.20
Universitatsverlag Winter Multimodale Instruktionen in Der Physiotherapie:
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£66.41
Universitatsverlag Winter Sprachproduktion
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£15.20
Transcript Verlag From Pathology to Public Sphere: The German Deaf
Book SynopsisIn the late 19th century, the so-called "German Method", which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At the same time as deaf German schoolchildren were taught to articulate and read lips, an emancipation movement of signing deaf adults emerged across the German Empire. This book tells the story of how deaf people moved from being isolated objects of administration or education, depending on welfare or working in the fields, to becoming an urban middle class collective with claims of self-determination. Main questions addressed in this first comprehensive work on one of the world's oldest movements of disabled people include how deaf organisations emerged, what they fought for, and who was left behind.
£33.99
John Benjamins Publishing Co Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive
Book SynopsisThe study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and educational settings. It also marks the career and contributions of one of the greatest scholars in the field of deafness: Bencie Woll. As the field of deafness goes through rapid and profound changes, we hope that this volume captures the latest perspectives regarding the impacts of these changes for our understanding of child development. The volume will be of essential interest to language development researchers as well as teachers and clinical researchers.
£76.00
John Benjamins Publishing Co The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An
Book SynopsisHow different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages.This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading.The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments, video clips and links to web resources.Table of Contents1. Foreword (by Baker, Anne); 2. Sign languages as natural languages (by Baker, Anne); 3. Psycholinguistics (by Schermer, Trude); 4. Acquisition (by Baker, Anne); 5. Interaction and discourse (by Baker, Anne); 6. Constituents and word classes (by Baker, Anne); 7. Syntax: simple sentences (by Pfau, Roland); 8. Syntax: complex sentences (by Pfau, Roland); 9. Lexicon (by Schermer, Trude); 10. Morphology (by Pfau, Roland); 11. Phonetics (by Crasborn, Onno A.); 12. Phonology (by Kooij, Els van der); 13. Language variation and standardisation (by Schermer, Trude); 14. Language contact and change (by Schermer, Trude); 15. Bilingualism and deaf education (by Bogaerde, Beppie van den); 16. Appendix 1: Notation conventions; 17. Appendix 2: Examples of manual alphabets; 18. References; 19. Index
£47.01
The Chinese University Press Hong Kong Sign Language: A Trilngual Dictionary
Book SynopsisThe dictionary represents a milestone of sign language research in Hong Kong. The signs collected in this volume reflect the varieties commonly adopted in Hong Kong; each of them is given a near equivalent in both Chinese and English and a brief description about its linguistic properties. The dictionary also lays the foundation of sign linguistics research and the development of sign interpreter training, the production of sign language teaching and learning materials.
£77.40
