Signs of their times: Deaf Communities and the Culture of Language

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2002, Pages 69-97

  Senghas, Richard J ^a   Monaghan, Leila ^b  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deaf culture; Deafness; Linguistic communities; Sign language

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DISABILITY; LANGUAGE;

EID: 0345224872     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.020402.101302     Document Type: Article

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