Test #4 - Red Book Flashcards
How does ASL show gender
By sigining signs in specific location
Cheeck bone up = male
Checkbone down - female
What percent of deaf parents have deaf chilred
10% of deaf parents have deaf children
90% of deaf parents have hearing children
CODA
Child of deaf adult
First language is often ASL; rarley have problems learning to speak
***important part of deaf culture + deaf community
Shoulder shifting
Allows you to show more than one peice of information by moving in a differnt direction for each detail
- Breaks infomration into seperate groups
***Creates contrastive structure
Use of shoulder shifting
- Contrasting - multiple topics of informaton in one sentance
- Comparing - what more than one person says or does
- Seperating - MOre than one idea or concept in a sentance
Where do all age signs orginate
All age signs orginate at the age spot - chin
***Number by chin and then move away from chin OR age sign then number
- Moving number away from age spot conveys ‘years old’ (don’t need sperate sign for YO)
Why ask - why do you want to learn ASL
Because many hearing people don’t learn - deaf people want to know so they can learn about you and your background
- Deaf people are happy when hearing people learn ASL
NOTE - most hearing poeple don’t learn ASL including hearing family memebers with deaf relative
Listening and ordering technique
ND has number and Dom hand points to each finger and gives information
- ND hand forms and list and stays there; each peice of new infomration is signed by dom hand
Used when providing several details at one time
And in ASL
NO AND IN ASL - use list and ordering technique
Arts in deaf culture
Are is an important part of deaf culture (some deaf artists focus on deafness and others do not)
- All try and present unique perspoectives
Examples - Chuck Baird - fanicul expression of ASL sign; deaf thearter groups; Douglas tilden (scultures about expression of purpose); Tony landon (deaf native american focuses on ASL in work); TV shows, films, and playes (Ex. love is never silent abd children of a lesser god); Better Miller (highlights opression of deaf people espciall supression of ASL and celebration of deaf culture)
HAND = big theme in deaf art (passed down between generations of deaf people)
Hearing people in Deaf community
Hearing people can be part of deaf community as long as they have respect for culture and language
How to fix mistakes
Signs oops or Wave no - then start again
- Wave no - correct infomration, signal objection, or refuse something
Umm = show syou are thinkning and not done signing
Plural pronouns
Use pronouns that show number of peolpe (two of us) if the number of people are known
