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Forbidden Signs

Douglas C. Baynton
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      This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. The debate about 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, the author 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Douglas C. Baynton EAN: 9780226039640 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-06-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1500 onwards to present day, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication, Cultural studies, Social groups, communities and identities, History of the Americas

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      Douglas C. Baynton is professor of history at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches courses in the American Sign Language program.
      This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. The debate about 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, the author 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Douglas C. Baynton EAN: 9780226039640 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-06-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1500 onwards to present day, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication, Cultural studies, Social groups, communities and identities, History of the Americas

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      Douglas C. Baynton is professor of history at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches courses in the American Sign Language program.

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