Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook

Book Overview

An essential anthology of Deaf perspectives

To many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited.

Deaf World thus concerns itself less with the perspectives of the hearing and more with what Deaf people themselves think and do. Editor Lois Bragg asserts that English is for many signing people a second, infrequently used language and that Deaf culture is the socially transmitted pattern of behavior,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814798535
• ISBN13: 9780814798539
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"