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lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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The Language of the Deaf
Calling deafness “one of the most desperate of human calamities,” Dr. Johnson was expressing the classic “pathological” view of deafness: it is a physical defect. Unable to hear or speak, the deaf are usually thought to be cut off from language, and ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 208 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0330317164
- ISBN-13: 9780330317160
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Jan 11, 1991
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780330317160 | Paperback | $6.42 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Signing
For deaf people, especially for those born deaf, this has been the best of quarter-centuries. The happy events have not been medical but social. The deaf have been irreversibly granted their own language. Sign languages are now known not to be parasi ... (read full critics)