A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
A new language minority has come to the fore in America and around the world. It is the tight-knit society - some million strong in the United States - that calls itself, in American Sign Language, the Deaf-World. It has a history, a flourishing culture, and a political agenda. …
A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
Looks at the world of the deaf in America and discusses deaf culture, the education of deaf children, useful technology, and the integration of deaf people into the society at large.
This volume offers the authors' insights into the existence and makeup of the Deaf world, the community whose natural language, American Sign Language in the United States, is manual and visual. Bringing the latest social and cultural findings and theories into focus, the author…
Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated - both individually and collectivel…
Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated?both individually and collectively …
Making the deaf Soviet -- War and reconstruction -- Golden age -- Pygmalion -- Deaf-Soviet identity in decline
'Deaf in the USSR' explores the history of the deaf community in the Soviet Union from the February Revolution of 1917 until the collapse of the Soviet state in 1991, situating the experience of deaf people within the broader framework of Soviet programs of identity. Using sourc…
Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated?both individually and collectively …
