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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language

Autor Douglas C. Baynton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iun 1998
Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.

The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language.

"Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation

"Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226039640
ISBN-10: 0226039641
Pagini: 235
Ilustrații: 12 halftones, 3 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community
2: Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race
3: Without Voices: Gender
4: From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture
5: The Natural Language of Signs: Nature
6: The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality
Epilogue: The Trap of Paternalism
Notes
Index