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Friday, October 27, 2006
Linguistic Diversity Continues to Abound
The 12th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf
Communities
Series Expands on Sign Language Use
Eleven years ago, Ceil Lucas introduced
Sociolinguistics in
Deaf Communities series, volume one of the eponymous series. Today, the 12th
volume
Multilingualism and Sign Languages: From the Great Plains to Australia demonstrates very clearly how much the field has grown since
the publication of the first collection. The papers assembled in the new study “covers
topics that range from the sign language used by American Indians in the Great
Plains to variation and issues of interpretation in Auslan,” notes series editor
Lucas, “with papers on Puerto Rican Sign Language, the Langue des Signes Québécoise (LSQ), Italian CODAs
and ASL discourse in between. They also represent all of the key areas of
sociolinguistic study and continue the series tradition of data-based accounts
of the use of sign languages in a wide variety of contexts all over the world.
Sociolinguistic issues are clearly being noticed, analyzed and documented in
many Deaf communities.”
Four distinctive parts divide the essays in the 12th volume — Multilingualism;
Language Contact; Variation; and Discourse Analysis. Featuring 16
internationally renowned linguistics experts, the absorbing studies reflect an
astonishing range of linguistic diversity. Read a portion of the sole essay
constituting
part one, A Historical Linguistic Account of Sign
Language among North American Indians, by Jeffrey E. Davis, and
use your exclusive subscriber discount to save 20% off the regular price when
you order
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or by mail.
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information.
 After
four years of planning, the Deaf Way II international conference and arts
festival (DWII) came to fruition on July 8–13, 2002, in Washington, D.C.
The
Deaf Way II Reader: Perspectives from the Second International Conference on
Deaf Culture includes more than seventy-five select papers presented
during the DWII conference. “We made an attempt to include every keynote and
plenary presentation in their proper section,” says The Deaf Way II Reader
editor Harvey Goodstein. “For the sections based on the twelve conference
strands, several papers were selected so that the authors came from different
countries and the papers covered varying subtopics, as far as possible.”
Featuring the very best of the scholarship presented at the DWII conference,
this extraordinary volume reveals how deaf people throughout the world live,
study, work, and play, as well as how they relate to their families and the
dominant hearing societies in which most of them reside. As noted by the editor,
“We hope that from these representative papers in the book the reader will
appreciate the wide range of topics covered and exchanged during the
conference.” Read a paper from
part one, and
order
The Deaf Way II Reader.”
 In
its recent issue, Wisconsin Bookwatch, the library newsletter from The
Midwest Book Review, highlighted author Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren’s engrossing
new study, stating: “Hearing
Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theater
by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren is a scholarly study of the connections between
hearing and deafness in theater that pushes the boundaries of experimentation,
as well as deaf and multicultural theater. Applying the model of the ‘third ear’
to cross-sensory listening through sound, silence, and moving body performance,
Hearing Difference deconstructs works of playwright Robert Wilson, the
National Theatre of the Deaf, and Asian American director Ping Chong, as well as
tracing the evolution of theatre of the third ear from the mid-1800s to the
1960s. An intensely scholarly close study of the systems that permeate theater,
especially those that most strongly distinguish and transcend it from the
audio-focused realm of the radio play, Hearing Difference is especially
recommended for college library and drama department reference shelves.” You can
read an excerpt from chapter two
here, and order
Hearing Difference
here.
 Gallaudet
University Press Institute, the educational division of Gallaudet University
Press, presents a sixth international conference, 150 Years on Kendall Green: Celebrating Deaf History and
Gallaudet, to be held April 11–13, 2007,
at the Kellogg Conference Hotel at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
With this conference, Gallaudet University will celebrate the remarkable history
of the founding of Kendall
Green and its growth into the most important university for Deaf people
worldwide. Keynote speaker James M. McPherson, Professor Emeritus of Princeton
University and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The
Civil War Era, along with an extraordinary ensemble of scholars will present
on a myriad of topics from the intersection of the assimilation movement with
Deaf education during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the influence of
Gallaudet on Deaf education worldwide and much more.
Register on-line
now through February 15, 2007, and receive a 10% discount off the regular
registration fee of $250. For more information about the conference, go to
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/gupiconference/index.html.
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