Our Lives – Our Stories : Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People

Sign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have – except for a few scattered fragments in film – not been documented...

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Autores principales: Roland Pfau, Asli Göksel, Jana Hosemann
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Publicado: De Gruyter Mouton 2021
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