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 t 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
ISBN-10
1563685787
ISBN-13
9781563685781
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189883173
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Issues, Services & Welfare
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Washington, DC
Edited by
Karen Nakamura, Leila Monaghan, Graham H. Turner, Constanze Schmaling
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations, Black & White Line Drawings, Black & White Tables, Figures
Author Biography
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.