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Murray, editors ; foreword by Andrew Solomon. Includes bibliographical references and index. Deaf culture. Bauman, H-Dirksen L. Murray, Joseph J. Philosophical Gain s 1.
L anguage Gain s 4. L anguage Gain s in Action 8. Hauser and Geo Kartheiser 9. Bonvillian Sen sory Gain s Social Gain s Leigh, Donna A. Morere, and Caroline Kobek Pezzarossi.
Cre ative Gain s My first forays to deaf clubs, theaters, and households astonished me. I learned a few signs and considered how different they were from speech. I made my first Deaf friends. I stayed in a dormitory at Gallaudet University for a few days and saw how passionately people were communicating, what ideas they were awakening in one another.
She could not trans- late the conversations I saw in the distance; she could not shift her attention at the same moment I did; discussions with multiple signers were hard to parse; and, in any case, translation always dilutes and alters what is being said. Seeing people greet one another with animated faces, seeing the electric quality of the dialogue all around me, I found myself wishing I were Deaf. It would have been helpful merely to know ASL, but I understood that true membership in this society had a great deal to do with the actual shared experience of deafness.
