Book "I SEE A VOICE" by Jonathan Ree

[Gagnon et Thibeault]

Hello Val and everyone,

    Val, thank you for your help.

    Waving hand

    André
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting at MAC.COM>
To: <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Cc: "Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa" <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com>; "Gagnon 
et Thibeault" <atg at videotron.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:30 PM
Subject: [sw-l] Book "I SEE A VOICE" by Jonathan Ree


> SignWriting List
> May 22, 2007
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> Hello Andre!
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> Here is the information:
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> Title:
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> "I SEE A VOICE"
> "Deafness, Language and the Senses-A Philosophical History"
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> Author : Jonathan Ree
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> Hardback Details
> Originally published in the UK by Harper Collins Publishers in 1999
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>     * Hardcover: 416 pages
>     * Publisher: Metropolitan Books (November 2, 1999)
>     * Language: English
>     * ISBN-10: 0805062548
>     * ISBN-13: 978-0805062540
>     * Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.4 inches
>     * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #990,607 in Books (See Bestsellers in  Books)
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> Paperback Details
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>    * Paperback: 416 pages
>     * Publisher: Owl Books (November 1, 2000)
>     * Language: English
>     * ISBN-10: 0805062556
>     * ISBN-13: 978-0805062557
>     * Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
>     * Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
>     * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #880,256 in Books (See Bestsellers in  Books)
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>
> I purchased the hardback book on Amazon.com for only $10.00 USD.
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> Go to http://www.amazon.com
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> and search for the title...
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> Hope you get the book!
>
> Val ;-)
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> On May 22, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:
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>> Hello Shane, Val and everyone,
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>>    I would like to obtain the book.  If you know anything about it, 
>> could you please tell me :
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>> Title : I see a voice
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>> Author : Jonathan Ree
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>> Name of publisher/ edition (company) : ??
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>> Date published : 1999
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>> ISBN number : ??
>>
>>    Best regards,
>>
>>    André
>>
>>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Sutton" 
>> <signwriting at MAC.COM>
>> To: <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
>> Cc: "Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa" <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 8:13 PM
>> Subject: [sw-l] Book "I SEE A VOICE" by Jonathan Ree
>>
>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> May 20, 2007
>>>
>>> Book "I SEE A VOICE" by Jonathan Ree
>>>
>>> I want to thank Shane Gilchrist from Belfast, who recommended that  I 
>>> read the book "I SEE A VOICE" by Jonathan Ree, published in   1999....so 
>>> I purchased it through Amazon.com. It is a hard-backed   book that is 
>>> really excellent, describing in general, the history  of  deafness, 
>>> speech teaching and sign languages, mostly in  European  countries and 
>>> the western world in general, for the past  couple of  centuries...I 
>>> have not read all of it yet...it is a  thick book...but  I have skimmed 
>>> some of it....
>>>
>>> The author touches upon many subjects, including Bell's Visible   Speech 
>>> and Bebian's writing of signed languages. I particularly   enjoyed the 
>>> chapter called "Writing Signs", pages 293-308.  No   mention of 
>>> SignWriting or other systems that were developed in  the  last half of 
>>> the 1900's however...;-)
>>>
>>> He did give particular focus to Roch-Amboise-Auguste Bébian, whom  I 
>>> personally have always admired, bearing so many frustrations  while 
>>> working as a teacher and writer with Deaf people in France  in the 
>>> early 1800s...Bebian fought against oralism and felt that  signed 
>>> languages deserved to be written...
>>>
>>> Roch-Amboise-Auguste Bébian
>>> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02379a.htm
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roch-Amboise-Auguste_Bébian
>>>
>>> Ree started with discussing the writing of dance and gesture, 
>>> including the Feuillet system from France, which was a dance  notation 
>>> system...and the Austin system, which is similar to an  Israeli 
>>> movement notation system called the Eshkol-Wachmann  System...I was 
>>> fortunate enough to meet Noa Eshkol in Israel in  1984....but there  was 
>>> no mention of the hundreds of other dance  notation systems of 
>>> course...impossible to mention everything  that is for sure...
>>>
>>> He discussed the oralists and how they looked down on the idea of 
>>> writing signs, pointing out that it probably was not possible to 
>>> succeed with writing signs anyway...smile...
>>>
>>> I hope that our modern work with SignWriting will finally bring a   real 
>>> writing system to daily use...let us pray...we just have to  keep 
>>> working hard everyday ;-)))
>>>
>>> I hope Bebian is watching and smiling...many thanks to him and  all 
>>> those who came before us...
>>>
>>> And many thanks for suggesting this very fine book, Shane!
>>>
>>> Val ;-)
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