The Mask of Benevolence

Harlan Lane

Views of Deaf people and the ways the hearing world talk about them are the product of history. In his book 'When the Mind Hears' Harlan Lane traced that history. This book presents the case that these views ill-serve deaf and hearing people. It argues for ways of thinking about and relating to, the members of the Deaf community that are different from the one largely practised now. It argues for an approach inspired primarily by the members of the Deaf community itself, and by linguistic discoveries concerning deaf languages. Paperback 310 Pages 1993

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