(DOWNLOAD) "Deaf around the World" by Gaurav Mathur & Donna Jo Napoli # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Deaf around the World
- Author : Gaurav Mathur & Donna Jo Napoli
- Release Date : January 10, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Reference,Words & Language,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 15655 KB
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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.