[PDF.58oi] Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity

Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity

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 | #421487 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2006-07-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.20 x6.00l,.76 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Very informative and easy to read|By Vanessa Saunders|I needed this book for a paper I was doing on Japanese Sign Language. This book touches on it but it is mostly focused, as titled, on the politics and Deaf identity. Very informative and easy to read. It is interesting to see the similarities and differences between the ASL culture with the JSL culture. The author, Karen Nak

Until the mid-1970s, deaf people in Japan had few legal rights and little social recognition. Legally, they were classified as minors or mentally deficient, unable to obtain driver's licenses or sign contracts and wills. Many worked at menial tasks or were constantly unemployed, and schools for the deaf taught a difficult regimen of speechreading and oral speech methods rather than signing. After several decades of activism, deaf men and women are now largely accepted...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity   |  Karen Nakamura. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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