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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Classifiers are hard. Not hard in the way vocabulary is hard, where more exposure eventually produces competence. Classifiers are hard because they require signers to think spatially while signing temporally, to track multiple referents while producing new content, to select among productive options while maintaining discourse coherence.DEPICTING SPACE addresses this challenge directly. Written for advanced ASL students, working interpreters, and interpreter educators, this comprehensive textbook bridges the gap between knowing what classifiers are and deploying them fluently under real-world conditions.WHAT THIS BOOK COVERSThe book is organized in five parts across seventeen chapters.Part One establishes theoretical foundations, examining classifier systems beyond basic taxonomy, the cognitive architecture underlying classifier selection, and the crucial distinction between topographic and syntactic space.Part Two addresses spatial anchoring systems: how signers establish and maintain spatial loci, achieve coherence across extended discourse, and manage perspective and viewpoint shifts.Part Three explores classifier predicates in depth: entity classifiers, handling classifiers, body part classifiers, size and shape specifiers (SASS), and movement morphology.Part Four applies these frameworks to professional contexts where precision matters most: legal settings requiring spatial accuracy for witness testimony, medical interpreting demanding anatomical precision, and technical interpreting involving mechanisms and processes.Part Five synthesizes the material through integrated practice frameworks and guidance on assessment and continuing development.PRACTICAL RESOURCES INCLUDEDSix appendices provide ready-to-use tools: a notation system for transcribing classifier predicates, practice exercises organized by chapter, self-assessment rubrics, a comprehensive glossary, an annotated bibliography, and sample syllabi adaptable to various course formats.WHO THIS BOOK IS FORThis book assumes readers already sign at an intermediate level or above. It serves advanced ASL students ready to develop sophisticated spatial skills, working interpreters seeking to refine classifier competence, interpreter educators teaching spatial grammar, and researchers interested in applied ASL linguistics.ABOUT THE AUTHORSJanna Sweenie, MA, brings over thirty-five years of experience teaching ASL at the post-secondary level, including three decades at New York University.David Boles, MFA, is a writer, editor, and publisher who founded the ASL Program at CUNY School of Professional Studies.Together they authored ARM ANGLES IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (2026), which established the analytical framework extended in this volume.DEPICTING SPACE is the book they wished existed when they were learning, and the book they wish existed now for their students.Book 2 in the ASL Linguistics for Practitioners series.64,000 words. 17 chapters. 6 appendices."To everyone who loves the language that lives in the hands." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On April 23, 2016, a warning went up in a comment thread beneath a blog entry about the ugly laws: the ADA is in danger, and the disabled are being propelled backward. Ten years later came the memorandum that proved the warning right. Back to Willowbrook is the record of how America taught itself to see disabled people as citizens, and of how fast that teaching is being unlearned.The slow winning opens in May 1881, when Chicago made it unlawful for anyone "diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed" to appear in public view, and it runs through the wards of Willowbrook State School, where a hidden camera in 1972 showed the country what removal had built. It holds the twenty-five days in 1977 when disabled occupiers refused to leave a federal building until Section 504 was signed unchanged, and the week in March 1988 when Gallaudet students closed their university until it seated a Deaf president. It ends at the Americans with Disabilities Act.Then comes the fast losing. Rights survive as interpretations, and interpretations are governable. A 2026 memorandum adopts a reading of the law that the federal courts have rejected. Work requirements meter Medicaid by the reported hour, and an Arkansas experiment that removed 18,164 people from coverage became national policy after its results were published. Waiting lists grow where wards once stood, and coverage lost is rarely coverage alone.Inside the history stands a witness. Janna Sweenie has taught American Sign Language at New York University since 1991 and has spent more than two decades as a vocational rehabilitation counselor inside the systems this book documents. Her testimony runs through these pages in the first person: the classroom where the voice goes off, the certification floor collapsing, the students solicited to work free, the friends penalized for requesting what the law promises.David Boles posted the 2016 warning and keeps the archive this book draws on, including the thread where the record begins. Together they follow the story to the Willowbrook Mile, the memorial path on the old grounds, and to a date circled for the last night of 2026. One window in the building is still lit. This book is the light in it, kept on so that what returns can never claim it was never seen. The record runs through July 2026. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Classifiers are hard. Not hard in the way vocabulary is hard, where more exposure eventually produces competence. Classifiers are hard because they require signers to think spatially while signing temporally, to track multiple referents while producing new content, to select among productive options while maintaining discourse coherence.DEPICTING SPACE addresses this challenge directly. Written for advanced ASL students, working interpreters, and interpreter educators, this comprehensive textbook bridges the gap between knowing what classifiers are and deploying them fluently under real-world conditions.WHAT THIS BOOK COVERSThe book is organized in five parts across seventeen chapters.Part One establishes theoretical foundations, examining classifier systems beyond basic taxonomy, the cognitive architecture underlying classifier selection, and the crucial distinction between topographic and syntactic space.Part Two addresses spatial anchoring systems: how signers establish and maintain spatial loci, achieve coherence across extended discourse, and manage perspective and viewpoint shifts.Part Three explores classifier predicates in depth: entity classifiers, handling classifiers, body part classifiers, size and shape specifiers (SASS), and movement morphology.Part Four applies these frameworks to professional contexts where precision matters most: legal settings requiring spatial accuracy for witness testimony, medical interpreting demanding anatomical precision, and technical interpreting involving mechanisms and processes.Part Five synthesizes the material through integrated practice frameworks and guidance on assessment and continuing development.PRACTICAL RESOURCES INCLUDEDSix appendices provide ready-to-use tools: a notation system for transcribing classifier predicates, practice exercises organized by chapter, self-assessment rubrics, a comprehensive glossary, an annotated bibliography, and sample syllabi adaptable to various course formats.WHO THIS BOOK IS FORThis book assumes readers already sign at an intermediate level or above. It serves advanced ASL students ready to develop sophisticated spatial skills, working interpreters seeking to refine classifier competence, interpreter educators teaching spatial grammar, and researchers interested in applied ASL linguistics.ABOUT THE AUTHORSJanna Sweenie, MA, brings over thirty-five years of experience teaching ASL at the post-secondary level, including three decades at New York University.David Boles, MFA, is a writer, editor, and publisher who founded the ASL Program at CUNY School of Professional Studies.Together they authored ARM ANGLES IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (2026), which established the analytical framework extended in this volume.DEPICTING SPACE is the book they wished existed when they were learning, and the book they wish existed now for their students.Book 2 in the ASL Linguistics for Practitioners series.64,000 words. 17 chapters. 6 appendices."To everyone who loves the language that lives in the hands." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…