Author: Joseph PirouxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 50
Book Description
Méthode pour le premier enseignement des sourds-muets, des sourds-parlants ... dans la famille, l'école primaire et l'institution
Author: Joseph PirouxDeaf in America
Author: Carol A. PaddenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674283171
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language—American Sign Language (ASL—and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations. Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people’s cultural views, has had tragic consequences for the education of deaf children; generations of children have attended schools in which they were forbidden to use a signed language. For Deaf people, as Padden and Humphries make clear, their signed language is life-giving, and is at the center of a rich cultural heritage. The tension between Deaf people’s views of themselves and the way the hearing world views them finds its way into their stories, which include tales about their origins and the characteristics they consider necessary for their existence and survival. Deaf in America includes folktales, accounts of old home movies, jokes, reminiscences, and translations of signed poems and modern signed performances. The authors introduce new material that has never before been published and also offer translations that capture as closely as possible the richness of the original material in ASL. Deaf in America will be of great interest to those interested in culture and language as well as to Deaf people and those who work with deaf children and Deaf people.
The Politics of Deafness
Author: Owen WrigleyPublisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563680649
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's ability to understand and interpret spoken communication.
Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People
Author: Edward L. ScoutenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Sign and Culture
Author: William C. StokoePublisher: Linstok Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This is a selection of papers that have appeared in the journal "Sign Language Studies" between 1972 and 1979. The aim is to provide the reader with some knowledge of the world as signers see it. The book is for academic decision-makers, teachers and parents of deaf students, as well as the intellectually curious. Following an introductory essay, the chapters are arranged in four sections: (1) The first section addresses the broad question "What is Sign Language?" with articles about the language merging situation involving manually encoded English and American Sign Language, as well as other aspects of sign language, including humor and foreign sign languages. (2) The second section on "Learning and Using Sign Language" gets deeply into a psycholinguistic vein, and presents findings on sign language acquisition and learning. (3) The third section, "(Sign) Language and Culture," relates sign language use and particular attitudes and policies to the deaf community. (4) The fourth chapter reinforces the idea that language is not all biological nor all socio-cultural, and applies this idea to sign language acquisition. (Author/PJM)
Peasant and French
Author: James R. LehningPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521467704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.
Sign Language Phonology
Author: Diane BrentariPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107113474
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.
Notional Syllabuses
Author: David Arthur WilkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Provides a framework of categories for the construction of notional syllabuses and justification for a notional syllabus. Also explores the role of a notional syllabus in various types of language learning situations.
Subtitling for the Media
Author: Jan IvarssonPublisher:
ISBN: 9789197179904
Category : Mass media and language
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
Author: Daniël OlmenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110609878
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgrounds. By taking a deliberately broad perspective on the matter, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation and examining phenomena ranging from negation over connectives to definite articles in well- and lesser-known languages, the volume furthers our understanding of variation in general. The papers offer new insights into, among other things, the theoretical notion of comparative concepts, the social or mental nature of language structure, the areal factor in lexical typology and the diachronic implications of semantic maps. The collection will thus be of relevance to typologists and historical linguists, as well as to people studying variation within the areas of cognitive and functional linguistics.