29.975, Books: Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf: Craam, Maat (eds.), Wallis

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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:16:19
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf: Craam, Maat (eds.), Wallis

Title: Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-language-to-a-boy-born-deaf-9780199677085 

Author: John Wallis
Editor: David Craam
Editor: Jaap Maat

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199677085 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 99.00

Abstract:

This book presents an edition of a previously unpublished notebook used by the
seventeenth-century polymath John Wallis to teach language to the "deaf mute"
Alexander Popham. Under the terms of the law Popham would not have been able
to inherit his family title and property if he had remained unable to speak.
This is one of the most famous cases in the history of deaf education. The
notebook, which has recently come to light in the Popham family mansion,
provides fascinating insights into the details of the instruction. It is a
rare example of a manual tailor-made for the instruction of a known individual
and its author is one of the foremost scientists of the period. If it had not
been lost the work would have been a key document in the dispute between John
Wallis and William Holder, both distinguished fellows of the Royal Society, on
whose method had been successful in teaching Popham to speak. The Popham
Notebook provides essential evidence towards the resolution of a debate that
has been widely discussed ever since.

David Cram and Jaap Maat place the work in its personal, social, and
scientific contexts. They include a range of additional contemporary texts and
provide a clear text with helpful annotations. The edition provides the means
for a thorough reassessment of the work's contemporary value. Their
introduction also includes a discussion of the theoretical issues underpinning
the teaching of language to the deaf.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Philosophy of Language

Written In: English  (eng)

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