The silent frontier: deaf people and their social use of cell phones in Cape Town

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references. === This thesis seeks to understand the ways in which the Deaf negotiate and embrace the cell phone socially. The Deaf, who can be seen as a linguistic and sensory minority within the predominant hearing society, use the cell phone to negot...

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Main Author: Van Pinxteren, Myrna
Other Authors: Nyamnjoh, Francis
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11941