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Inside Deaf culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2007

Gene Mirus
Gene Mirus
Affiliation:
ASL and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC 20002, gene.mirus@gallaudet.edu
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Carol A. Padden & Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 224. Hb $22.95.

Since its publication in 1988, Padden & Humphries's book Deaf in America: Voices from a culture (Harvard University Press) has been an important resource for people studying American Sign Language, Deaf studies, and the linguistics of signed languages. The book sheds light on the Deaf experience and on how American Deaf people construct themselves through stories and language play, including poetry and jokes. It is a positive, at times humorous window into Deaf culture and identity. Harvard University Press has just released the authors' much-anticipated second book, reviewed here. Although it is just as informative, engaging, and well-researched as their first book, Inside Deaf culture examines a much bleaker aspect of Deaf America: its encounter with hearing hegemony.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Information
Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 263 - 265
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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