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Preface
1. A world's eye view : deaf cultures in global perspective / Leila Monaghan
2. British manual alphabets in the education of deaf people since the 17th century / Rachel Sutton-Spence
3. Austria's hidden conflict : hearing culture versus deaf culture / Franz Dotter and Ingeborg Okorn
4. Pedagogical issues in Swedish deaf education / Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Lars-Åke Domfors
5. Romance and reality : sociolinguistic similarities and differences between Swiss German sign language and Rhaeto-Romansh / Penny Boyes Braem, Benno Caramore, Roland Hermann, and Patricia Shores Hermann.
6. The dilemma of the hard of hearing within the U.S. Deaf community / Donald A. Grushkin
7. Sociolinguistic dynamics in American deaf communities : peer groups versus families / Ceil Lucas and Susan Schatz
8. School language and shifts in Irish deaf identity / Barbara LeMaster
9. Surdos venceremos : the rise of the Brazilian Deaf community / Norine Berenz
10. South African sign language : changing policies and practice / Debra Aarons and Louise Reynolds
11. U-turns, deaf shock, and the hard of hearing : Japanese deaf identities at the borderlands / Karen Nakamura.
12. The Chiying School of Taiwan : a foreigner's perspective / Jean Ann
13. The changing world of the Russian deaf community / Michael Pursglove and Anna Komarova
14. New ways to be deaf in Nicaragua : changes in language, personhood, and community / Richard J. Senghas
15. Sign languages and deaf identities in Thailand and Viet Nam / James Woodward
16. A for apple : the impact of Western education and ASL on the Deaf community in Kano State, Northern Nigeria / Constanze Schmaling
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Index.
1. A world's eye view : deaf cultures in global perspective / Leila Monaghan
2. British manual alphabets in the education of deaf people since the 17th century / Rachel Sutton-Spence
3. Austria's hidden conflict : hearing culture versus deaf culture / Franz Dotter and Ingeborg Okorn
4. Pedagogical issues in Swedish deaf education / Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Lars-Åke Domfors
5. Romance and reality : sociolinguistic similarities and differences between Swiss German sign language and Rhaeto-Romansh / Penny Boyes Braem, Benno Caramore, Roland Hermann, and Patricia Shores Hermann.
6. The dilemma of the hard of hearing within the U.S. Deaf community / Donald A. Grushkin
7. Sociolinguistic dynamics in American deaf communities : peer groups versus families / Ceil Lucas and Susan Schatz
8. School language and shifts in Irish deaf identity / Barbara LeMaster
9. Surdos venceremos : the rise of the Brazilian Deaf community / Norine Berenz
10. South African sign language : changing policies and practice / Debra Aarons and Louise Reynolds
11. U-turns, deaf shock, and the hard of hearing : Japanese deaf identities at the borderlands / Karen Nakamura.
12. The Chiying School of Taiwan : a foreigner's perspective / Jean Ann
13. The changing world of the Russian deaf community / Michael Pursglove and Anna Komarova
14. New ways to be deaf in Nicaragua : changes in language, personhood, and community / Richard J. Senghas
15. Sign languages and deaf identities in Thailand and Viet Nam / James Woodward
16. A for apple : the impact of Western education and ASL on the Deaf community in Kano State, Northern Nigeria / Constanze Schmaling
Contributors
Index.