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Author:   John Wallis ,  Dr. David Cram (Jesus College, University of Oxford) ,  Jaap Maat (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.676kg
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9780199677085

ISBN 10:   0199677085
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   30 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION i: Deafness in philosophical, medical, legal and religious perspectives ii: Teaching language to the deaf before the 1650s iii: Literature on teaching language to the deaf in seventeenth-century Britain iv: The education of Alexander Popham v: Aftermath and retrospect PART I: THE POPHAM NOTEBOOK 1: Transcription of text, with textual footnotes PART II: THE EDUCATION OF ALEXANDER POPHAM 2: John Wallis (1661) First letter to Boyle on teaching language to the deaf 3: William Holder (1669) An Appendix Concerning Persons Deaf and Dumb 4: John Wallis (1670 [1662]) Second letter to Boyle on teaching language to the deaf 5: William Holder (1678) A Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions of July 1670 6: John Wallis (1678) A Defence of the Royal Society; In answer to the cavils of Dr. William Holder PART III: AFTERMATH AND LEGACY 7: John Wallis to Thomas Beverley (1698) On teaching language to the deaf 8: John Wallis and Johann Conrad Amman (1700) An exchange of letters on the method of teaching the deaf 9: Henry Baker (1723) A Short Essay on Speech Bibliography Index

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The authors, David Cram and Jaap Maat, have done an excellent and thorough job in providing this text, not only for its historical value, but also for the theoretical issues touched on in teaching language to the deaf. * Marga Stander, LINGUIST List *

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John Wallis (1618-1703) was a founder member of the Royal Society, a mathematician and pioneer of calculus, and a linguist whose work included the groundbreaking tract on phonetics, De Loquela (1653). 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. He is co-editor, with Jaap Maat, of George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), and the Unpublished Papers (OUP, 2001). Jaap Maat is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and is a member of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). He has published widely on the history of linguistic ideas and the history of logic. He is a founding editor of History of Humanities and co-editor, with David Cram, of George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), and the Unpublished Papers (OUP, 2001).

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