Many ways to be deaf : international variation in deaf communities / Leila Monaghan [and others], editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2003.Description: xi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1563681358
  • 9781563681356
  • 9781563685781
  • 1563685787
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV 2395 .M36 2003
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Contents:
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-�Ake 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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-�Ake 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.

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