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| Title: | Deaf in America : voices from a culture / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carol Padden; Tom Humphries |
| ISBN: | 0674194233 (alk. paper); 9780674194236 (alk. paper); 0674194241 (pbk.); 9780674194243 (pbk.) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-129) and index. Content: Learning to be deaf -- Images of being -- A different center -- Living in others' world -- A changing consciousness -- The meaning of sound -- Historically created lives. |
| Description: | vii, 134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Learning to be deaf -- Images of being -- A different center -- Living in others' world -- A changing consciousness -- The meaning of sound -- Historically created lives. |
| Responsibility: | Carol Padden, Tom Humphries. |
| Year: | 1988. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 88011769 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV2545; Dewey No.: 362.4/2/0973 |
| OCLC No.: | 17875818 |
Abstract:
Refusing to accept the limitations others have placed on the deaf, the authors--themselves deaf--argue for a deaf culture, one united by and expressed through the American Sign Language.
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