Activity: How Language Can Include or Marginalise People
How Language Can Include or Marginalise People
Students compare texts to identify how they use language to include or marginalise people.
Sources
‘Why Deaf People Must Write’ by Karen Lloyd (1980s)
Letter to the Editor by Eli Noble (1950)
Public letter to members of the Australian Association for the Advancement of the Deaf by M. O. Wilson (1930s)
‘Deaf and Dumb Land’ by Ernest Abraham (early 1900s)
Other old texts written by deaf people, as appropriate