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"Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material world. These features make conversation in natural sign both possible and precarious. Sense-making in natural sign depends on signers' skillful use of resources and on addressees' willingness to engage. Natural sign reveals the labor of sense-making that in more conventional language is carried by shared grammar. Ultimately, this highly original book shows that emergent language is an ethical endeavor, challenging readers to consider what it means, and what it takes, to understand and to be understood"--

Sign language --- Deafness --- Deaf people --- Deaf culture --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Means of communication --- Social life and customs.

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"Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and letters home during the early 1980s, The Deaf Heart chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of Galveston, Texas. Max strives to become certified as a Registered Biological Photographer while straddling the deaf and hearing worlds. He befriends Reynaldo, an impoverished Deaf Mexican, and they go on a number of unusual escapades around the island. At the hospital, Max has to contend with hearing doctors, nurses, scientists, and teachers. While struggling through the rigors of his residency and running into bad luck in meeting women, Max discovers an ally in his hearing housemate Zag, a fellow resident who is also vying for certification. Toward the end of his residency, Max meets Maddy, a Deaf woman who helps bring balance to his life. Author Willy Conley's stories, some humorous, some poignant, reveal Max's struggles and triumphs as he attempts to succeed in the hearing world while at the same time navigating the multicultural and linguistic diversity within the Deaf world"--

FICTION / Short Stories (single author). --- FICTION / General. --- FICTION / Coming of Age. --- Interpersonal relations --- People with disabilities --- Deaf culture --- Deaf subculture --- Subculture

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Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes the two as a source of value in postcolonial India. Michele Friedner argues that the experiences of deaf people offer an important portrayal of contemporary self-making and sociality under new regimes of labor and economy in India. Friedner contends that deafness actually becomes a source of value for deaf Indians as they interact with nongovernmental organizations, with employers in the global information technology sector, and with the state. In contrast to previous political economic moments, deaf Indians increasingly depend less on the state for education and employment, and instead turn to novel and sometimes surprising spaces such as NGOs, multinational corporations, multilevel marketing businesses, and churches that attract deaf congregants. They also gravitate towards each other. Their social practices may be invisible to outsiders because neither the state nor their families have recognized Indian Sign Language as legitimate, but deaf Indians collectively learn sign language, which they use among themselves, and they also learn the importance of working within the structures of their communities to maximize their opportunities. Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India analyzes how diverse deaf people become oriented toward each other and disoriented from their families and other kinship networks. More broadly, this book explores how deafness, deaf sociality, and sign language relate to contemporary society.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- Sociology of disability --- People with disabilities --- Deaf culture --- Deaf --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- Deaf subculture --- Subculture --- Deaf-mutes --- Deaf people --- Deafness --- Hearing impaired --- Deafblind people --- Sociological aspects --- Patients

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In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated-both individually and collectively- by a vibrant and independent community of deaf people who engaged in complex ways with Soviet ideology.Deaf in the USSR engages with a wide range of sources from both deaf and hearing perspectives-archival sources, films and literature, personal memoirs, and journalism-to build a multilayered history of deafness. This book will appeal to scholars of Soviet history and disability studies as well as those in the international deaf community who are interested in their collective heritage. Deaf in the USSR will also enjoy a broad readership among those who are interested in deafness and disability as a key to more inclusive understandings of being human and of language, society, politics, and power.

Group identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Marginality, Social --- Deaf --- Deaf culture --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Deaf-mutes --- Deaf people --- Deafness --- Hearing impaired --- Deafblind people --- Deaf subculture --- Subculture --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Patients

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"In this history of deafness and sign language in the Catholic Church, the author draws on the stories of deaf priests and pastoral workers to trace the development of an active language minority in today's global church"

Deaf --- Deaf culture. --- Church work with the deaf --- Religious life. --- Religious life --- History. --- Catholic Church --- Catholic Church. --- Deaf subculture --- Subculture --- Deaf-mutes --- Deaf people --- Deafness --- Hearing impaired --- Deafblind people --- Patients --- Chiesa cattolica --- Church of Rome --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Gereja Katolik --- Iglesia Católica --- Kanisa Katoliki --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolicheskai͡a t͡serkovʹ --- Katolicki Kościół --- Katolyt͡sʹka t͡serkva --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kościół Katolicki --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Roman Catholic Church --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Deaf - Religious life - History. --- Church work with the deaf - Catholic Church - History. --- Deaf culture --- History --- 253:362 --- 253:362 Pastoraal voor gehandicapten --- Pastoraal voor gehandicapten --- Church work with deaf people