Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Bishop (linguistics, Santa Rosa Junior College) and Hicks (American Sign Language/interpreter education, Santa Rosa Junior College) bring together a group of 10 essays, both research studies and personal stories, about the shared culture of hearing children who grow up in deaf families. Coverage encompasses bimodal bilingualism and language acquisition in adults, grammatical markers, the cultural and linguistic behaviors of hearing children from deaf families, sign and spoken language contact phenomena, societal influences, and issues of self-expression, identity, and experience. Deaf children from deaf families are not discussed. Essays were written by scholars of linguistics, psychiatry, and psychology, and authors who are deaf, hearing, or children of deaf adults, who are based in the US, Europe, Australia, and Brazil. Two essays are reprints. Annotation 漏2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 The 14th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series The newest entry in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series explores the richness and complexity of the lives of hearing people in deaf families. Along with their own contributions, volume editors Michele Bishop and Sherry L. Hicks present the work of an extraordinary cadre of deaf, hearing, and Coda (children of deaf adults) researchers: Susan Adams, Jean Andrews, Oya Ataman, Anne E. Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde , Helsa B. Borinstein, Karen Emmorey, Tamar H. Gollan, Mara L煤cia Masutti, Susan Mather, Ronice M眉ller de Quadros, Jemina Napier, Paul Preston, Jennie E. Pyers, Robin Thompson, and Andrea Wilhelm. Their findings represent research in a number of countries, including Australia, Brazil, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Hearing, Mother^Father Deaf: Hearing People in Deaf Familiesincludes a comprehensive description of the societal influences at work in the lives of deaf people and their hearing children, which serves as a backdrop for the essays. The topics range from bimodal bilingualism in adults to cultural and linguistic behaviors of hearing children from deaf families; sign and spoken language contact phenomena; and to issues of self-expression, identity, and experience. A blend of data-based research and personal writings, the articles in this sociolinguistic study provide a thorough understanding of the varied experiences of hearing people and their deaf families throughout the world.   Publisher Summary 3 The 14th volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series explores the rich linguistic and cultural characteristics of hearing members of deaf families.