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Signs Of The Times, And Doctrinal Advocate And Monitor
Hutson Street Press
2025
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Sign Languages
Joseph C. Hill; Diane C. Lillo-Martin; Sandra K. Wood
TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic grammatical components of phonology, morphology, and syntax with examples and illustrations.Revised throughout, this new edition:demonstrates how sign languages are acquired by Deaf children with varying degrees of input during early development, including no input where children create a language of their owndiscusses the contexts of sign languages, including how different varieties are formed and used, attitudes toward sign languages, and how language planning affects language useincludes a new chapter on the similarities between signed and spoken languagesoffers additional visuals and explanations as well as more coverage of signed languages other than ASLis accompanied by updated online support material, which hosts links to video clipsThis engaging and accessible introduction to sign languages is essential reading for students studying this topic for the first time with little or no background in linguistics.
Sign Languages
Joseph C. Hill; Diane C. Lillo-Martin; Sandra K. Wood
TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
sidottu
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic grammatical components of phonology, morphology, and syntax with examples and illustrations.Revised throughout, this new edition:demonstrates how sign languages are acquired by Deaf children with varying degrees of input during early development, including no input where children create a language of their owndiscusses the contexts of sign languages, including how different varieties are formed and used, attitudes toward sign languages, and how language planning affects language useincludes a new chapter on the similarities between signed and spoken languagesoffers additional visuals and explanations as well as more coverage of signed languages other than ASLis accompanied by updated online support material, which hosts links to video clipsThis engaging and accessible introduction to sign languages is essential reading for students studying this topic for the first time with little or no background in linguistics.
Signs in Activities
TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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This book is a collective volume bringing together scholars who share an interest in linguistics from an integrational point of view and in developing new directions for future scholarship.Integrational linguistics invites us to rethink the theoretical and methodological premises of general linguistics by drawing on a different conception of the sign and by recognizing the creativity that human communication requires. Some chapters are concerned with concepts like the sign, contextualization, activity, and integration. Although being core concepts developed by the founder of integrational linguistics, Roy Harris, they have arguably remained underdeveloped in Harris’ writings and thus call for further clarification and investigation. Other chapters are concerned with the notions of the self and the social, experience and interaction, with questions about individual agency and will, and human sociality and social organization, which all occupy a central position in integrational theory. Finally, remaining chapters focus on how scriptism and the language myth have influenced our way of thinking about communication in a broad sense.This edited collection will be of interest to a multidisciplinary readership comprising those engaged in study, teaching, and research in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, the arts, education, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, and semiotics.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRYPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE‘I became fatherless at 26 and a fatherat 35 and whenever I look outthe living room window I feel myselfbecome the child left alone in the house’Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a book about masculinity, fatherhood, and love. The speaker, looking backwards to his late father and forwards to his new son, prepares to become a parent for the first time. Meditating on the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the ‘hypothetical’ and the ‘real’ of becoming a father, this irreversible transition causes the poet’s ‘lines [to] lead towards my father (again!)’.Charting the ways parenthood disrupts the poet’s sense of self, and how the pain of the past triggers fears of ‘fatherly failure’, Signs, Music is a staggeringly profound collection from one of Britain’s most adept poets writing today.'This is transformative writing creating a new cultural landscape. Antrobus makes us hear between the lines through poems well-crafted with emotional intelligence' – Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mark Oakley and Clare Shaw, judges of the 2018 Ted Hughes Prize.
Sign of Four
MACMILLAN EDUCATION
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An empowering story of a young woman's journey to accepting her deaf identity, exploring the hidden history of the deaf community in the invention of the telephone
An empowering story of a young woman's journey to accepting her deaf identity, exploring the hidden history of the deaf community in the invention of the telephone
Navy SEAL Mike Saunders and his canine sidekick return in the third and final installment of the SEAL series. When a cartel kingpin seeks revenge it’s their team leader, Chief TJ Lines, who’s forced to overcome heartbreak and save the loyal hound Axe from a fate worse than death. Signed SEAL’d and Delivered is light-hearted action meets romance with a touch of subterfuge. It is dedicated to the Military Working Dogs who have served, loyal and steadfast, alongside their handlers in the world’s deadliest conflict zones. A percentage of the sale of this book will be donated to a foundation that trains dogs to help servicemen and women who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Jack Silkstone's background includes a career in military intelligence and special operations, working alongside some of the world's most elite units. It’s this unique background that has allowed him to create both the SEAL and PRIMAL series.
Sign Language in Mainstream Education for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Asia
TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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This book focuses on two means of recruiting sign language to support DHH students in mainstream education in Asia. The first approach is educational sign interpreting, which has been adopted to support signing DHH students in mainstream classrooms in Taiwan. Contributions report on a questionnaire survey with post-hoc interviews examining the reactions of students, parents, a resource teacher, and an interpreter towards providing this service in the education system. The second approach is co-enrolment, which involves bringing a critical mass of DHH students into the mainstream classroom for them to study with hearing children, supported by either a deaf teacher or a teacher highly proficient in signing, who co-teaches with a regular teacher and co-shares responsibilities in taking care of the whole class of students. The chapters exemplifying this approach report on the effects of co-enrolment on DHH students’ language development and academic attainment.This book was originally published as a special issue of Deafness & Education International.
Where did the signs of the zodiac come from? Why do some people believe that astrology can determine personality? Does astrological symbolism have any value?Written by cognitive psychologists, Signs of Life reveals the origin of astrological symbolism and explains why astrology continues to be popular and relevant even though studies have indicated that horoscopes have no scientific support.The authors explain how archetypal aspects of the human condition, projected and deified in the heavens over millennia from the collective psyche, became woven into storytelling, folklore, myth and religion.The book describes how the symbolism of astrology is a way in which humans have unconsciously represented their fundamental urges, functions and ways of behaving, including what we now understand as psychological constructs of personality, metaphors of development, models of motivational needs, and a shared articulation of life and spirit.A fresh and sometimes provocative approach to astrological symbolism, it will appeal to those with an interest in the relationships between cognitive psychology, the origins of astrology, symbolism, myth, and the human search for spirituality.
Where did the signs of the zodiac come from? Why do some people believe that astrology can determine personality? Does astrological symbolism have any value?Written by cognitive psychologists, Signs of Life reveals the origin of astrological symbolism and explains why astrology continues to be popular and relevant even though studies have indicated that horoscopes have no scientific support.The authors explain how archetypal aspects of the human condition, projected and deified in the heavens over millennia from the collective psyche, became woven into storytelling, folklore, myth and religion.The book describes how the symbolism of astrology is a way in which humans have unconsciously represented their fundamental urges, functions and ways of behaving, including what we now understand as psychological constructs of personality, metaphors of development, models of motivational needs, and a shared articulation of life and spirit.A fresh and sometimes provocative approach to astrological symbolism, it will appeal to those with an interest in the relationships between cognitive psychology, the origins of astrology, symbolism, myth, and the human search for spirituality.
What does it mean to be alive? To really live? To hope. To dream. To achieve all we were meant to achieve?In these short stories by C. Jeff Oakes, this is the theme of each tale. Some people live a nice lifestyle, yet are dead inside while others, having nothing are more alive than most. Is life the culmination of what we do or how we live? Do we measure life by wealth, accomplishments, or some other means? Through seemingly unconnected stories, we explore the depths of life with sometimes joyous outcomes and sometimes tragic.Titles contained within this book include: Corner of the BarThe Attic WindowA Woman's TouchMirrored Images"The Horrible Traumatism of Birth"The Old HouseThe Electric PhantomMinor Justice?The Good DayRushin RouletteOnly That Which is BeautifulThe Perpetual ChildJustice HappensAztec EyesWhispering PinesIn each tale, author c j oakes explores difficult aspects of life, the often tragic moments which define us as human beings. Whether reading for pleasure, enlightenment, or education, these stories will surprise, shock, and at times deliver a punch in the gut.
Signs and Wonders: Sojourn in the Inner-city
Angela Punky Stultz
Independently Published
2019
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Signs and Wonders: Sojourn in the Inner-city takes the reader along the journey of a grassroots organization operating in one of Kingston Jamaica's poorest inner-city communities. Through recounting personal encounters, observations and direct interventions, Signs and Wonders captures the challenges that Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and community development practitioners face. These include achieving community buy-in, overcoming biases, class and gender divisions, addressing people's sense of alienation, managing limited financial resources, and working with political cultures that view people's empowerment with suspicion.This is not only a recounting of challenges however, for beyond them are the stories of hope, resilience and triumph. The S-Corner Clinic & Community Development was an NGO operating in Kingston 13. The community is characterized by older houses typical of early middle class Kingston, now overshadowed by rusty zinc fences, dilapidated buildings and weak sanitation disposal. The community's decline has not just been physical but also social with high levels of illiteracy, teenaged pregnancy, underemployment and gang violence. The S-Corner Organization initially provided programs in education, health, sanitation, and economic development to help to alleviate the complex issues of intergenerational poverty. The organization's integration into the community coupled with quantitative and qualitative research unearthed a myriad of critical underlying factors hindering community development. In response the organization broadened its scope of work to include projects such as sanitation infrastructure and peace building. As an escalating homicide rate became an increasing burden on our health care programs, costing lives and damaging the community's economy; the addition of peace-building programs was especially essential to make it possible to achieve community social and economic transformation. Signs and Wonders presents the reader with ten compelling short stories of triumph. The stories illustrate the human impact of the trials and ills experienced by many communities - unemployment, crime, gangs, domestic abuse, interpersonal conflicts, and parenting challenges. They emphasize the triumphs and the resilience of the human spirit. The reasons for triumphs are varied and attributable to the determination of the community residents, the multiple approaches of the NGO, the author's deepened faith and relationship with the creator, and to unexplainable occurrences. The stories will provoke academic debate and further discussions. Taken as a whole, the book exposes systemic inequities which create and perpetuate poverty. It provides social workers and social work agencies with important insights and ideas for their work with vulnerable communities and challenges practitioners of community development and peace building to respond in ways that lead to equity and justice. Perhaps most importantly, the stories are intended to inspire individuals living in difficult circumstances to believe that transformation is possible. Each story highlights a unique and personal experience and yet an underlying thread of community challenge and resilience is woven from one story to the next. All stories are true. The author has been given permission to tell individuals' stories and to use their names, although some names have been changed to protect individual identities.
Recently, as I was preparing material for a class on the spiritual character of the calling to ministry, and the degree of revelation that the person called by God needs to have in order to be effective as a dispenser of God's mysteries, I came to think that there is a process of prior preparation for exposure to the moment of Revelation. I commented on my restlessness with another ministry and I had the answer that when God decides to reveal his mysteries, the person has no need, nor time, to prepare, God does it in the decision of his Sovereignty and the person receives it, and transmits it.However, as the days passed, the idea still continued, and although I understood that God's man and woman could do nothing to cause God to reveal His mysteries to them, I still wondered what Abraham did to be chosen from among so many similar to him so that God would entrust him with such a great project of restoration; what made Jacob loved by God above Esau; in general terms, what did the men and women of the past do, chosen by God so that He would entrust their mysteries to them, a simple choice without further qualification requirement?