Research Guides: American Sign Language and Deaf Studies: Find Books

Sample American Sign Language and Deaf Studies Searches in the UC Libraries Catalog

Use the Library Catalog to locate books and other materials relevant to the study of signed language interpreting or Deaf culture. Search the catalog by author, title, keyword or subject. Below are selected subject headings. Click on the heading to activate a search sorted by date.

Selected Books from UC Libraries

Deaf Identities by Irene W. Leigh (Editor); Catherine A. O'Brien (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780190887599
Publication Date: 2019
Over the past decade, a significant body of work on the topic of Deaf identities has emerged. In this volume, Leigh and O'Brien bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines - anthropology, counseling, education, literary criticism, practical religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and Deaf studies - to examine Deaf identity paradigms.
The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia by Genie Gertz (Editor); Patrick Boudreault (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9781452259567
Publication Date: 2016
The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia carves out a new and critical perspective that breathes meaning into organic Deaf experiences through a new critical theory lens.
Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience by Ila Parasnis (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0521454778
Publication Date: 1996
The perspective that deaf people should be regarded as a cultural and language minority group rather than individuals with an audiological disability is gathering support among educators, linguists, and researchers involved in the education of deaf people across America.
The Oxford Handbook of African American Language by Sonja Lanehart (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780199795390
Publication Date: 2015
The Oxford Handbook of African American Language (OHAAL) provides readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary sociolinguistic research on language use in African American communities.

Other Books

Integrated and Open Interpreter Education: The Open Educational Resource Reader and Workbook for Interpreters
This Open Educational Resource (OER) on interpreting offers authors and readers free and open access to current, relevant, easy-to-access, and free materials. The editors have created a space where emerging scholars in the field of signed language interpreting make contributions with the ability to revise as the interpreting studies discipline and the scholars,themselves, develop and change. This OER provides faculty and students readings and practical application experiences that connect program specific coursework and concepts across the interpreter education curriculum emphasizing the holistic nature of the field of interpreting.