TY - BOOK AU - Monaghan,Leila Frances TI - Many ways to be deaf: international variation in deaf communities SN - 1563681358 AV - HV 2395 .M36 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Gallaudet University Press KW - Deaf people KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Sign language KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social adjustment KW - Intercultural communication KW - Culture conflict KW - fast KW - Deaf N1 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy037/2002192872.html ER -