Books published by Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

This collection explores an alternative view of deaf people and literacy by emphasizing shifts in cultural identity rather than educational contexts determined by hearing societies.

In the ninth volume of the Deaf Lives series, Madan Vasishta picks up where he left off in his first memoir, Deaf in Delhi, to describe his life as a student at Gallaudet University, his observations of American life, and his convoluted rise to become a professor at his alma mater.

This book teaches Deaf and second-language students how to write through exercises carefully crafted using the X-Word Grammar approach, with all writing activities and their answers included in print and on a special CD.

This anthology showcases for the first time the best works of Deaf poets throughout the nation's history, 95 poems by 35 masters from the early 19th century to modern times.

The daughter of deaf parents, Taavila presents poetic images that bring a natural focus to aspects of life, love, loss, family, death, and desire.

This first volume in the Studies in Interpretation series studies several facets of signed language interpreting such as conference, courtroom, and medical interpretation; the interaction between Deaf presenters and audiences; and the non-manual elements used by interpreters in sign language transliteration.

The 12th volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series features the varied work of 16 linguistic experts on North American Indian Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, Italian Sign Language, Langue des Signes Quebecoise, and American Sign Language."

Presents an in-depth collection by 17 renowned international scholars that details a developmental framework to maximize academic success for deaf students from kindergarten through grade 12.

This handy guide offers a potpourri of basic signs arranged in 17 common categories that can be learned quickly to communicate with anyone familiar with ASL, deaf or hearing, plus tips on usage and cultural notes.

The 13th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series describes various accounts of contact between sign languages worldwide to further understandstructural and social factors of this linguistic component."

Armstrong's cogent, highly readable book explains the basic linguistic concepts and academic controversies in a way that makes for an excellent introduction to the study of language. But this is an introduction with an important difference. Unlike most authors, Armstrong includes gesture and signed language at every step, rather than teating the visual channel of language as an afterthought. He makes a strong case for the Whorfian, comparative, and relativist approach to languages as a necessary complement to the Chomskyan universalist perspective that has dominated the field in recent decades, and Armstrong's historical analysis illustrates how the politics of social attitude has influenced scientific views about such questions as whether or not a signed language can be a real language in its own right. His argument starts with the premise that both forms, signed and vocal, are kinds of language, and he examines the important differences as well as the similarities between them, providing insight into basic questions about the nature and evolution of language as a multimodal phenomenon--audio and visual in its essence.