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Forbidden Signs : American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
Forbidden Signs American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
Author: Douglas C. Baynton
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 ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226039633
ISBN-10: 0226039633
Publication Date: 12/1/1996
Pages: 235
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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