Forbidden Signs : American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language.

Forbidden Signs : American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language.

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 su...

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Main Author: Baynton, Douglas C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Deaf people > Means of communication > United States > History.
Sign language > Study and teaching > United States > History.
Deaf people > United States > Social conditions.
Deaf > Means of communication
Deaf > Social conditions
Sign language > Study and teaching
United States
History
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