Forbidden Signs : American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language.

Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked su...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baynton, Douglas C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Temas:
Deaf > Means of communication > United States > History.
Sign language > Study and teaching > United States > History.
Deaf > United States > Social conditions.
Personnes sourdes > Moyens de communication > États-Unis > Histoire.
Langage par signes > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Personnes sourdes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Deaf > Means of communication
Deaf > Social conditions
Sign language > Study and teaching
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the g.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:9780226039688
0226039684

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