Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf: The Popham Notebook and Associated Texts - Hardcover

Wallis, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199677085 ISBN 13: 9780199677085

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book presents an edition of a previously unpublished notebook used by the seventeenth-century polymath John Wallis to teach language to the "deaf mute" Alexander Popham.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.

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David Cram is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, formerly Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics. By background and training he is a theoretical linguist, but the bulk of his research has concerned the history of ideas about language in the seventeenth century, on topics ranging from philosophical languages to linguistic eschatology.

Jaap Maat teaches in the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. His main interests are in the history of logic and linguistics in the early modern period.

David Cram and Jaap Maat are the editors of George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), The Unpublished Papers (OUP, 2001), and John Wallis, Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf: The Popham Notebook and Associated Texts.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199677085
• ISBN 13: 9780199677085
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 327
• Herausgeber: Cram David, Maat Jaap
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