03568nam 2200625 a 450 991045957070332120200520144314.00-226-03968-410.7208/9780226039688(CKB)2670000000077134(EBL)672977(OCoLC)709551376(SSID)ssj0000469267(PQKBManifestationID)11280837(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469267(PQKBWorkID)10510211(PQKB)11230134(MiAaPQ)EBC672977(DE-B1597)524089(OCoLC)1135576478(DE-B1597)9780226039688(Au-PeEL)EBL672977(CaPaEBR)ebr10456342(EXLCZ)99267000000007713419960313h19981996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrForbidden signs[electronic resource] American culture and the campaign against sign language /Douglas C. BayntonChicago University of Chicago Press1998, c19961 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-03963-3 0-226-03964-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-215) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Foreigners in Their Own Land: Community -- TWO. Savages and Deaf Mutes: Species and Race -- THREE. Without Voices: Gender -- FOUR. From Refinement to Efficiency: Culture -- FIVE. The Natural Language of Signs: Nature -- SIX. The Unnatural Language of Signs: Normality -- Epilogue: The Trap of Paternalism -- Notes -- IndexForbidden 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 distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."-Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."-Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book ReviewDeafMeans of communicationUnited StatesHistorySign languageStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistoryDeafUnited StatesSocial conditionsElectronic books.DeafMeans of communicationHistory.Sign languageStudy and teachingHistory.DeafSocial conditions.419Baynton Douglas C991621MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459570703321Forbidden signs2269446UNINA