Book "I SEE A VOICE" by Jonathan Ree

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 22, 2007

Hello Andre!

Here is the information:

Title:

"I SEE A VOICE"
"Deafness, Language and the Senses-A Philosophical History"

Author : Jonathan Ree

Hardback Details
Originally published in the UK by Harper Collins Publishers in 1999

     * 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)


Paperback Details

    * 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)


I purchased the hardback book on Amazon.com for only $10.00 USD.

Go to http://www.amazon.com

and search for the title...

Hope you get the book!

Val ;-)

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On May 22, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:

> Hello Shane, Val and everyone,
>
>    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 : ??
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>    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
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>> SignWriting List
>> May 20, 2007
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>> Book "I SEE A VOICE" by Jonathan Ree
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>> 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....
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>> 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...;-)
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>> 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...
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>> Roch-Amboise-Auguste Bébian
>> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02379a.htm
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roch-Amboise-Auguste_Bébian
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>> 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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