"This volume tracks the changes in education and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics covered include the attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America, the evolution of communication and language and increasing influence of education. Of particular intere…
This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literatu…
The Guidelines for Good Practice of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (ealta) stress the importance of collaboration between all parties involved in the process of developing instruments, activities and programmes for testing and assessment. Collaborat…
In this book, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway presents an accessible examination of deafness in Nepal that looks at the social, historical, and cultural factors that have shaped today's Deaf community
In this book, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway presents an accessible examination of deafness in Nepal that looks at the social, historical, and cultural factors that have shaped today's Deaf community
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 framework from an anthropological per…
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 framework from an anthropological per…
In this book, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway presents an accessible examination of deafness in Nepal that looks at the social, historical, and cultural factors that have shaped today's Deaf community.
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 framework from an anthropological per…
This is a guide for mastering the current basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or in the American Sign Language pattern. It provides the basic vocabulary needed for persons entering interpreter training programs. Over …
