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Deaf Gain: raising the stakes for human diversity

Deaf Gain: raising the stakes for human diversity
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Identnummer 1617472867
ISBN 978-0-8166-9122-7
978-0-8166-9121-0
Sprache eng
Titel Deaf Gain : raising the stakes for human diversity / H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray editors ; foreword by Andew Solomon ; afterword by Tove Skuttnab-Kangas
Erscheinungsvermerk Minneapolis London : University of Minnesota Press , [2014]
Umfangsangabe XLII, 521 Seiten : Illustrationen
Zusammenfassung Contents; Foreword; Editors' Note; Introduction; Philosophical Gains; 1. Armchairs and Stares; 2. Identifying the "Able" in a Vari-­able World; 3. The Case for Deaf Legal Theory; Language Gains; 4. Three Revolutions; 5. Deaf Gain in Evolutionary Perspective; 6. Deaf Gains in the Study of Bilingualism; 7. What We Learned from Sign Languages; Language Gains in Action; 8. Advantages of Learning a Signed Language; 9. Baby Sign as Deaf Gain; 10. Manual Signs and Gestures ; 11. Bulwer's Speaking Hands; Sensory Gains; 12. Seeing the World through Deaf Eyes; 13. A Magic Touch; 14. Senses and Culture Contents; Foreword; Editors' Note; Introduction; Philosophical Gains; 1. Armchairs and Stares; 2. Identifying the Able in a Vari-able World; 3. The Case for Deaf Legal Theory; Language Gains; 4. Three Revolutions; 5. Deaf Gain in Evolutionary Perspective; 6. Deaf Gains in the Study of Bilingualism; 7. What We Learned from Sign Languages; Language Gains in Action; 8. Advantages of Learning a Signed Language; 9. Baby Sign as Deaf Gain; 10. Manual Signs and Gestures ; 11. Bulwer's Speaking Hands; Sensory Gains; 12. Seeing the World through Deaf Eyes; 13. A Magic Touch; 14. Senses and Culture
15. The Deaf Gain of Wladislav Zeitlin16. The Hidden Gain; Social Gains; 17. Deaf Gain and Shared Signing Communities; 18. Gainful Employment; 19. Effective Deaf Action in the Deaf Community in Uruguay; 20. Deaf Gains in Brazil; 21. Deaf Gain: Beyond Deaf Culture; Creative Gains; 22. DeafSpace; 23. Co-Design from Divergent Thinking; 24. The Hearing Line; 25. Deaf Music; 26. Deaf Gain and Creativity in Signed Literature; 27. Deaf Gain and the Creative Arts; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index
Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates about disability and what it means to be human, experts from a variety of disciplines-neuroscience, linguistics, bioethics, history, cultural studies, education, public policy, art, and architecture-advance the concept of Deaf Gain and challenge assumptions about what is normal. Through their
Schlagwörter Deaf culture
Deaf
Deafness in children
Schlagwort Gehörlosenkultur
Hörschädigung
Vorteil
Gebärdensprache
Weitere Verfasser Bauman, H-Dirksen L. 1964- HerausgeberIn
Murray, Joseph J.
Solomon, Andrew 1963- VerfasserIn eines Vorworts
Skuttnab-Kangas, Tove
Signatur 4 a 4441
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