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Deaf Studies: A Critique of the Predominant U.S. Theoretical Direction
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Myers, Shirley Shultz; Fernandes, Jane K. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
The focus and concerns establishing Deaf Studies in the 1970s have rigidified into a reactive stance toward changing historical conditions and the variety of deaf lives today. This critique analyzes the theoretical foundation of this stance: a tendency to downplay established research in the field of Deaf Studies and linguistics, the employment of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Deafness, Linguistic Theory, Models
Deaf Utopias? Reviewing the Sociocultural Literature on the World's "Martha's Vineyard Situations"
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Kusters, Annelies – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
Martha's Vineyard--an island off the East Coast of the United States--is known as a community where "everyone signed" for several hundred years, a utopia in the eyes of many Deaf people. Currently, there exist around the world a number of small similar "shared signing communities," for example, in Mexico, Bali, Israel, and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Sociocultural Patterns