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"A reading of Douglas Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, 'Forbidden Signs,' reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."Douglas C. Baynton is the author of 'Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language', published 1998 under ISBN 9780226039640 and ISBN 0226039641.
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