Seeing voices : a journey into the world of the deaf / Oliver Sacks

By:

Sacks, Oliver [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Great Britain CPI Group 1990Description: xvii, 222 ; 20 cmISBN:

9780330523646

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HV 2370 .S23 1990

Contents:

Preface -- A deaf world -- Thinking in sign -- The revolution of the deaf -- Notes -- References -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Summary: "Three years ago I knew nothing of the situation of the deaf, and never imagined that it could cast light on so many realms, above all, on the realm of language. I was astonished to learn about the history of deaf people, and the extraordinary (linguistic) challenges they face, astonished too to learn of a completely visual language, Speech. It is all too easy to take language, one's own language, for granted--one may need to encounter another language, or rather another mode of language, in order to be astonished, to be pushed into wonder, again."

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Preface -- A deaf world -- Thinking in sign -- The revolution of the deaf -- Notes -- References -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

"Three years ago I knew nothing of the situation of the deaf, and never imagined that it could cast light on so many realms, above all, on the realm of language. I was astonished to learn about the history of deaf people, and the extraordinary (linguistic) challenges they face, astonished too to learn of a completely visual language, Speech. It is all too easy to take language, one's own language, for granted--one may need to encounter another language, or rather another mode of language, in order to be astonished, to be pushed into wonder, again."

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