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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A World's Eye View: Deaf Cultures in Global Perspective -- 2. British Manual Alphabets in the Education of Deaf People Since the 17th Century -- 3. Austria's Hidden Conflict: Hearing Culture Versus Deaf Culture -- 4. Pedagogical Issues in Swedish Deaf Education -- 5. Romance and Reality: Sociolinguistic Similarities and Differences between Swiss German Sign Language and Rhaeto-Romansh -- 6. The Dilemma of the Hard of Hearing within the U.S.Deaf Community -- 7. Sociolinguistic Dynamics in American Deaf Communities: Peer Groups Versus Families -- 8. School Language and Shifts in Irish Deaf Identity -- 9. Surdos Venceremos: The Rise of the Brazilian Deaf Community -- 10. South African Sign Language: Changing Policies and Practice -- 11. U-Turns, Deaf Shock, and the Hard of Hearing: Japanese Deaf Identities at the Borderlands -- 12. The Chiying School of Taiwan: A Foreigner's Perspective -- 13. The Changing World of the Russian Deaf Community -- 14. New Ways to Be Deaf in Nicaragua: Changes in Language, Personhood, and Community -- 15. Sign Languages and Deaf Identities in Thailand and Viet Nam -- 16. A for Apple: The Impact of Western Education and ASL on the Deaf Community in Kano State, Northern Nigeria -- Contributors -- Index