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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baynton, Douglas C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Introduction; 1. Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community; 1. Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community; 2. Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race; 2. Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race; 3. Without Voices: Gender; 3. Without Voices: Gender; Gallery; Gallery; 4. From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture; 4. From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture; 5. The Natural Language of Signs: Nature; 5. The Natural Language of Signs: Nature; 6. The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality; 6. The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality. 
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