Deaf in America

Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture, Chapter 4
Article #3: Living in Others' World


The article titled "Living in Others' World" is about how deaf peoples' theories about

themselves and their language are impacted by others' beliefs. The article went on to talk

about how Leonard Bloomfield, a linguist, studied guesture languages. He came up with a

theory that said, "It seems certain that these gesture languages are merely developments

of ordinary gestures and that any and all complicated or not immediat...