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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.