Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf - Couverture souple

Sacks, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330523643 ISBN 13 : 9780330523646

Editeur : Picador, 2012

Synopsis

Seeing Voices The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.  In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' Evening Standard

Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing impaired learn to categorize their respective worlds - and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0330523643
• ISBN 13: 9780330523646
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240