Learning to Interpret: Working from English into American Sign Language
โ Scribed by Campbell McDermid
- Publisher
- RIT Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 265
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
"A beginning text for teaching interpreters of American Sign Language based on linguistics and grounded in theory and research"--
โฆ Subjects
Translating and interpreting -- Study and teaching;American Sign Language -- Study and teaching;Interpreters for the deaf -- Training of -- United States;Interpreters for the deaf -- Training of;United States
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