Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness
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The tradition of rhetoric established 2,500 years ago emphasizes the imperative of speech as a defining characteristic of reason. But in her new book Lend Me Your Ear, Brenda Jo Brueggemann exposes this tradition's effect of disallowing deaf people human identity because of their natural silence. Brueggemann's assault upon this long-standing rhetorical conceit is both erudite and personal; she writes both as a scholar and as a hard-of-hearing...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1563680793
ISBN13:9781563680793
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:Gallaudet University Press
Length:302 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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