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Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
Carol A. Padden
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Description for Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
Paperback. "Through the use of folklore, apocryphal stories, poetry, jokes, and discussion of split factions and advocacy organizations, Padden and Humphries gracefully explain how deaf culture works, what it means to its members, how they define themselves within it, and how they interact with the world outside".--Booklist. Illustrated. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language—American Sign Language (ASL—and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations.
Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people’s cultural views, has had tragic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674194243
SKU
V9780674194243
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99-1
About Carol A. Padden
Carol Padden is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Tom Humphries is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Teacher Education Program at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
A fascinating glimpse into a world unfamiliar to most of us.
New York Times Book Review
To be deaf, it seems obvious, must be to live in a world of silence. That, say the authors of Deaf in America, is where most people get it wrong… [Padden and Humphries] challenge their readers to imagine a world, one with ... Read more
New York Times Book Review
To be deaf, it seems obvious, must be to live in a world of silence. That, say the authors of Deaf in America, is where most people get it wrong… [Padden and Humphries] challenge their readers to imagine a world, one with ... Read more