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UNINA9910462754803321 |
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Titolo |
The Mouton world atlas of variation in English [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bernd Kortman and Kerstin Lunkenheimer |
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Berlin, : DeGruyter Mouton, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (971 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KortmanBernd |
LunkenheimerKerstin |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Variation |
English language - Dialects |
Linguistic geography |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. The British Isles -- pt. 2. North America -- pt. 3. The Caribbean and South America -- pt. 4. Africa -- pt. 5. South and Southeast Asia -- pt. 6. Australasia and the Pacific -- pt. 7. Isolates -- pt. 8. Regional profiles -- pt. 9. Typological profiles -- pt. 10. Global profile. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge. |
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UNINA9910785283003321 |
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Autore |
Blume Stuart S. <1942-> |
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Titolo |
The artificial ear [[electronic resource] ] : cochlear implants and the culture of deafness / / Stuart Blume |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cochlear implants - Social aspects |
Cochlear implants - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Promise of New Medical Technology -- Chapter 2. The Making of the Cochlear Implant -- Chapter 3. The Cochlear Implant and the Deaf Community -- Chapter 4. The Globalization of a Controversial Technology -- Chapter 5. Implantation Politics in the Netherlands -- Chapter 6. Contexts of Uncertainty: Parental Decision Making -- Chapter 7. Politics and Medical Progress -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When it was first developed, the cochlear implant was hailed as a "miracle cure" for deafness. That relatively few deaf adults seemed to want it was puzzling. The technology was then modified for use with deaf children, 90 percent of whom have hearing parents. Then, controversy struck as the Deaf community overwhelmingly protested the use of the device and procedure. For them, the cochlear implant was not viewed in the context of medical progress and advances in the physiology of hearing, but instead represented the historic oppression of deaf people and of sign languages. Part ethnography and part historical study, The Artificial Ear is based on interviews with researchers who were pivotal in the early development and implementation of the new technology. Through an analysis of the scientific and clinical literature, Stuart Blume reconstructs the history of artificial hearing from its conceptual origins in the 1930's, to the first attempt at cochlear implantation in Paris in the 1950's, and to the widespread clinical application of the "bionic ear" since the 1980's. |
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