Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli

de Vos, Connie and Palfreyman, Nick (2012) Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli. Journal of Linguistics, 48 (3). pp. 731-735. ISSN 00222267

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226712000291

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(first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language. With this fruitful relationship in mind, sign language researchers and deaf educators gathered in Philadelphia in 2008, and in the volume under review, Gaurav Mathur & Donna Jo Napoli (henceforth M&N) present a selection of papers from this conference, organised in two parts: ‘Sign languages: Creation, context, form’, and ‘Social issues/civil rights ’...


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