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Many ways to be deaf : international variation in deaf communities /

The recent explosion of sociocultural, linguistic, and historical research on signed languages throughout the world has culminated in Many Ways to Be Deaf, an unmatched collection of in-depth articles about linguistic diversity in Deaf communities on five continents. Twenty-four international schola...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Monaghan, Leila Frances, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. A world's eye view : deaf cultures in global perspective / Leila Monaghan
  • 2. British manual alphabets in the education of deaf people since the 17th century / Rachel Sutton-Spence
  • 3. Austria's hidden conflict : hearing culture versus deaf culture / Franz Dotter and Ingeborg Okorn
  • 4. Pedagogical issues in Swedish deaf education / Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Lars-Åke Domfors
  • 5. Romance and reality : sociolinguistic similarities and differences between Swiss German sign language and Rhaeto-Romansh / Penny Boyes Braem, Benno Caramore, Roland Hermann, and Patricia Shores Hermann.
  • 6. The dilemma of the hard of hearing within the U.S. Deaf community / Donald A. Grushkin
  • 7. Sociolinguistic dynamics in American deaf communities : peer groups versus families / Ceil Lucas and Susan Schatz
  • 8. School language and shifts in Irish deaf identity / Barbara LeMaster
  • 9. Surdos venceremos : the rise of the Brazilian Deaf community / Norine Berenz
  • 10. South African sign language : changing policies and practice / Debra Aarons and Louise Reynolds
  • 11. U-turns, deaf shock, and the hard of hearing : Japanese deaf identities at the borderlands / Karen Nakamura.
  • 12. The Chiying School of Taiwan : a foreigner's perspective / Jean Ann
  • 13. The changing world of the Russian deaf community / Michael Pursglove and Anna Komarova
  • 14. New ways to be deaf in Nicaragua : changes in language, personhood, and community / Richard J. Senghas
  • 15. Sign languages and deaf identities in Thailand and Viet Nam / James Woodward
  • 16. A for apple : the impact of Western education and ASL on the Deaf community in Kano State, Northern Nigeria / Constanze Schmaling
  • Contributors
  • Index.