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| Title | Book: Deaf around the World |
| Body | From http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SociolinguisticsAnthropologicalL/?view=usa&ci=9780199732548 Deaf around the World: The Impact of Language Edited by Gaurav Mathur and Donna Jo Napoli Published by the Oxford University Press Summary: Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities. Renowned contributors such as James Woodward, Yerker Andersson, and Paddy Ladd offer new histories and overviews of major topics. Each chapter is followed by a response from a pre-eminent thinker in the field. The volume includes studies of sign languages and Deaf communities in Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SociolinguisticsAnthropologicalL/?view=usa&ci=9780199732548 |
| Source | Oxford University Press |
| Inputdate | 2010-12-19 01:28:57 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-12-20 00:00:00 |
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