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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Deaf around the World
• Subtitle: The Impact of Language
• Author: Gaurav Mathur
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780199732531
• ISBN: 0199732531
• ID: 04535153
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 634 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 156 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. January 2011

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