Many Ways to Be Deaf : International Variation in Deaf Communities

Monaghan, Leila (EDT); Schmaling, Constanze (EDT); Nakamura, Karen (EDT); Turner, Graham H. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1563685787 / ISBN 13: 9781563685781

Published by Gallaudet University Press, 2013

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Synopsis:

Many Ways to Be Deaf circles the globe - from Asia and Russia to Europe and the United Kingdom, from Africa to South America to the United States - profiling the immense diversity of the world's Deaf communities. Special attention is paid not only to the historical and linguistic origins of each community's signed language, but to the ways each language has been influenced by the hearing population and foreign influences. Twenty-four international contributors of different cultural and scholastic backgrounds make this appraisal truly diverse and expansive in scope.

About the Author: Leila Monaghan is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Constanze Schmaling is a linguist at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg. Karen Nakamura is associate professor of anthropology and East Asian studies at Yale University. Graham H. Turner is senior lecturer in the British Sign Language and Deaf Studies Program at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Many Ways to Be Deaf : International ...
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New