A Unique "Coda space": Between Deaf and Hearing Worlds

Abstract

Reviews the book, Hearing, mother-father deaf: Hearing people in deaf families edited by M. Bishop and S. L. Hicks (2009). The book is a rich and diverse compilation of work that reflects the heterogeneity of Codas themselves and the limited research regarding Codas in any one realm. This book brings together a variety of articles that are all significant, exploring various aspects of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The book explores a part of an overriding struggle to identify, classify, describe, and name the interstices within which Codas live, communicate, learn and behave. Although this book offers considerable insight and perspective into the life of Codas, it is a challenging read containing what may be unfamiliar nomenclature as well as statistics and data tables. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)