Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood

by Paddy Ladd

Book Overview

This book presents a 'Traveller's Guide' to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of Deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the concepts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00W67O4LG
• ISBN13: 9781853595455
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Understanding Deaf Culture

It was very interest and little hard to understand about different of kind deaf culture ASL and Oral and other disablity.