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 | Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language (Reprint Edition) by Douglas C. Baynton Paperback, 235 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-226-03964-1 / 0226039641 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03964-0 / 9780226039640 Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The metaphors and images used to describe the de | |