DFST 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sign Language, Deaf Culture, Yucatec Maya Language
12 Mar 2019
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Week 2 class 2 (part b) february 7, 2019. Think about what we recently learned about culture, language, ethnicity. Hearing and deaf people know and use sign language. View sign language as a natural way to communicate with deaf people. Do not view deaf people as different. Both hearing and deaf people know and use sign language. People do not encourage or allow deaf people to use sign language. Hearing people ask, can you read my lips? . Martha"s vineyard - example of an assimilation community as opposed to a. Suppression community found on the mainland (bahan & poole nash,1996) Is it possible or have there been attempts to annihilate (destroy, wipe out) There are attempts in western society but it is difficult for a deaf community to completely vanish. E. g. , nicaragua had complete suppression and annihilation of the deaf community and its language, but it re emerged after the sandinistas revolution (bahan & poole nash,1996)
