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Sign Language Interpreting and Interpreter Education
Directions for Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
More the 1.46 million people in the United States have hearing losses in sufficient severity to be considered deaf; another 21 million people have other hearing impairments. For many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, sign language and voice interpreting is essential to their participation in educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The question how to turn the principles implicitly governing the concept of truth into an explicit definition (or explication) of the concept hence coalesced with the question how to get a finite grip on the infinity of T-sentences. Tarski's famous and ingenious move was to introduce a new concept,...
Indian Philosophy of Language
Studies in Selected Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or thirty years ago this question simply would not have arisen. If a practitioner of analytic philosophy of language of that time had any view of Indian philosophy at all, it was most...
Eastern Europe Collection
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine (Including Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldovan, Romanian and Ukrainian)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Eastern Europe CollectionWelcome to the Eastern Europe Collection. This collection includes 6 of our training courses all within the same book. This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. Learn essential...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and applications of linguistics in situations...
Handbook of Language and Literacy, Second Edition
Development and Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
An acclaimed reference that fills a significant gap in the literature, this volume examines the linkages between spoken and written language development, both typical and atypical. Leading authorities address the impact of specific language-related processes on K-12 literacy learning, with attention...
by R. Anthony Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Written as a text, this book looks at the external history of French from its Latin origins to the present day through some of the analytical frameworks developed by contemporary sociolinguistics. French is one of the most highly standardized of the world's languages and the author invites us to see...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This volume presents evidence about how we understand communication in changing times, and proposes that such understandings may contribute to the development of pedagogy for teaching and learning. It expands current debates on multilingualism, asking which signs are in use and in action, and what...
by Noelle Bisseret
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book presents an analysis of the ‘essentialist ideology’, which is inherent to class-based societies. The author argues that essentialist ideology is efficient through its unconscious component and is imposed on everyone. It guides school selection and imposes on each class a language specific...
The Language of London
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This beautifully presented and accessible guide is the perfect companion to learning the phrases of London's East End and the interesting origins behind Cockney Rhyming Slang - a language first invented as a secret code among the thieves of London's underworld. Organized thematically, rather than alphabetically,...
Beyond Words
Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and confusion to communication. Plunging into the connotations and uses associated with particular groups of vocal utterances—the guttural,...
by Hermes Language Reference
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
This intensive lexical builder is addressed to B1-B2 intermediate learners of German, who are already capable of reading easy German stories, and who would like to enrich (and/or refresh) their vocabulary up to the advanced level in order to approach more complex German texts.
Each piece of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal...
The Impulse to Gesture
Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues...