Seeing voices : a journey into the world of the deaf / Oliver Sacks.
By: Sacks, Oliver
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BookPublisher: New York : Vintage Book, 1990Description: xvii, 222 p. ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780375704079; 0375704078.Subject(s): Gallaudet University -- Student strike, 1988 | Deaf -- History | American sign languageDDC classification: 305.908162 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 305.908162 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00107064 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The renowned neurologist and bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat takes us on a journey into the world of deaf culture, and the underpinnings of the remarkable visual language of the congenitally deaf.
"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought.... One of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.
Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Bibliography: (pages 209-213).
A deaf world -- Thinking in sign -- The revolution of the deaf.