The Resource Forbidden signs : American culture and the campaign against sign language, Douglas C. Baynton
Forbidden signs : American culture and the campaign against sign language, Douglas C. Baynton
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- Summary
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- Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The metaphors and images used to describe the deaf - outsiders; beings of silence, innocence, and mystery; users of a language alternately seen as ancient and noble or primitive and animal-like - offer a unique perspective for examining American thought and culture
- The debate over 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, Baynton finds 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. Ending with a discussion of recent changes in the images of deafness and sign language and a critique of the current state of deaf education, Forbidden Signs will benefit historians and those interested in the study of gesture and human movement, disability, sign language, and the American deaf community
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 228 pages
- Contents
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- 1. Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community
- 2. Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race
- 3. Without Voices: Gender
- 4. From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture
- 5. The Natural Language of Signs: Nature
- 6. The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality
- Epilogue: The Trap of Paternalism
- Isbn
- 9780226039633
- Label
- Forbidden signs : American culture and the campaign against sign language
- Title
- Forbidden signs
- Title remainder
- American culture and the campaign against sign language
- Statement of responsibility
- Douglas C. Baynton
- Subject
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- American sign language
- Deaf -- Means of communication
- Deaf -- Means of communication -- United States -- History
- Deaf -- Social conditions
- Deaf -- United States -- Social conditions
- Doven
- Education of Hearing Disabled
- Education, Special -- history
- Gebarentaal
- Gebärdensprache
- Gehörloser
- Akzeptanz
- History
- Nichtverbale Kommunikation
- Sign Language -- history
- Sign language -- Study and teaching
- Sign language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
- USA
- USA
- United States
- Verboden
- Geschichte
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The metaphors and images used to describe the deaf - outsiders; beings of silence, innocence, and mystery; users of a language alternately seen as ancient and noble or primitive and animal-like - offer a unique perspective for examining American thought and culture
- The debate over 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, Baynton finds 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. Ending with a discussion of recent changes in the images of deafness and sign language and a critique of the current state of deaf education, Forbidden Signs will benefit historians and those interested in the study of gesture and human movement, disability, sign language, and the American deaf community
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Baynton, Douglas C
- Dewey number
- 419
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV2471
- LC item number
- .B39 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Deaf
- Sign language
- Deaf
- Sign Language
- Education of Hearing Disabled
- Education, Special
- Deaf
- Deaf
- Sign language
- United States
- Gebarentaal
- Doven
- Verboden
- Akzeptanz
- American sign language
- Gehörloser
- Geschichte
- Nichtverbale Kommunikation
- USA
- Gebärdensprache
- USA
- Deaf
- Deaf
- Sign language
- Label
- Forbidden signs : American culture and the campaign against sign language, Douglas C. Baynton
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-215) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community -- 2. Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race -- 3. Without Voices: Gender -- 4. From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture -- 5. The Natural Language of Signs: Nature -- 6. The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality -- Epilogue: The Trap of Paternalism
- Control code
- ocm34412303
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226039633
- Lccn
- 96012889
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o34412303
- (OCoLC)34412303
- Label
- Forbidden signs : American culture and the campaign against sign language, Douglas C. Baynton
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-215) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community -- 2. Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race -- 3. Without Voices: Gender -- 4. From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture -- 5. The Natural Language of Signs: Nature -- 6. The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality -- Epilogue: The Trap of Paternalism
- Control code
- ocm34412303
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226039633
- Lccn
- 96012889
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o34412303
- (OCoLC)34412303
Subject
- American sign language
- Deaf -- Means of communication
- Deaf -- Means of communication -- United States -- History
- Deaf -- Social conditions
- Deaf -- United States -- Social conditions
- Doven
- Education of Hearing Disabled
- Education, Special -- history
- Gebarentaal
- Gebärdensprache
- Gehörloser
- Akzeptanz
- History
- Nichtverbale Kommunikation
- Sign Language -- history
- Sign language -- Study and teaching
- Sign language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
- USA
- USA
- United States
- Verboden
- Geschichte
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