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

Many ways to be deaf : international variation in deaf communities / Leila Monaghan [and others], editors. - Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2003. - xi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Deaf people--Cross-cultural studies.
Sign language--Cross-cultural studies.
Identity (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies.
Social adjustment--Cross-cultural studies.
Intercultural communication.
Culture conflict.
Culture conflict.
Deaf.
Identity (Psychology)
Intercultural communication.
Sign language.
Social adjustment.


Cross-cultural studies.

HV 2395 / .M36 2003