Sign Language category: 113 books
Open Your Eyes
Deaf Studies Talking
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries...
by Mark Browning
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In this follow up to Stephen King on the Big Screen (2009) Mark Browning turns his critical eye upon the much-neglected subject of the best-selling author’s work in television, examining what it is about King’s fiction that makes it particularly suitable for the small screen.By focusing on this body...
Theatre in Passing 2
Searching for New Amsterdam
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary. Drawing once again on Michel de Certeau’s notion of a ‘second poetic geography,’ this new volume examines prominent theatrical...
Gesti e atteggiamenti che parlano da soli
Capire e padroneggiare il linguaggio del corpo per migliorare il rapporto con se stessi e con gli altri
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2011
La comunicazione umana è costituita da tre elementi: l'elemento verbale, ossia l'insieme di parole usate in una conversazione, l'elemento vocale, cioè l'intonazione della voce, e l'elemento visuale, vale a dire tutto ciò che viene percepito con gli occhi. A quest'ultima categoria appartengono i gesti...
From Nwico to Wsis
Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Two major events have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) in the 1970s–80s and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003–05. Yet they are rarely studied in their continuity/discontinuity and the intermediary period...
by Joseph Augustus Seiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
"The Children of Silence; Or, The Story of the Deaf" is an 1887 guide to deafness written by Joseph A. Seiss. Originally written for the author's own benefit as the Director of the "Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb", this guide contains a great deal of general information,...
Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes
The Representation of Islam in the British Press
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis methods to produce an objective picture of...
by Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
“Armiño: Simbolismo” es un estudio sobre el simbolismo del armiño en la historia de la humanidad. Durante la Edad Media se realizó la construcción cultural de la pureza de sangre como fundamento para el gobierno de la monarquía. La sangre azul como se la llama en los cuentos de hadas, se...
Sounds Like Home
Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Mary Herring Wright’s memoir adds an important dimension to the current literature in that it is a story by and about an African American deaf child. The author recounts her experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her story is unique...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
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-based profession that begins in a classroom rather...
Alandra's Lilacs
The Story of a Mother and Her Deaf Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
When, in 1968, 19-year-old Tressa Bowers took her baby daughter to an expert on deaf children, he pronounced that Alandra was “stone deaf,” she most likely would never be able to talk, and she probably would not get much of an education because of her communication limitations. Tressa refused...
by Rafael M. López Pérez, Fernando Gordillo León, Marta Grau Olivares
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Esta obra es un manual sobre el análisis del comportamiento no verbal riguroso y completo. Un manual en el cual el profesional puede apoyarse para sustentar sus análisis. En él se presenta un conjunto de protocolos que tratan de integrar todo el conocimiento generado ofreciendo una visión global...
Holistic Shakespeare
An Experiential Learning Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The standard analytical approach to teaching Shakespeare does not tend to help students understand the theatricality of the Bard’s plays and can leave them with an overly dry, disconnected view of Shakespeare. Designed to address this problem, Holistic Shakespeare combines analysis with creative learning...
by Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
En el fenómeno del terrorismo es donde mejor se puede apreciar la irracionalidad en la era contemporánea. Mediante la lógica de la doble negación, se fabrican constructos culturales con los cuales se justifica la violencia del terror. Mediante una lógica ambivalente, se fabrican Disensos para...