Transcript ASL Overview - GEOCITIES.ws

Introduction to ASL
By Reba Orton
Reasons for ASL class
• Enhance receptive and
expressive skills
• Expand your ASL vocabulary
base
• Immerse yourself in ASL in order
to fully learn ASL structure
• Improve signing speed (prosody)
• Increase ASL fluency
• Learn ASL idioms
• Recognize high-frequency ASL
signs
Meaning Differences
• Difference between SAY and TELL
• English words don't always translate
well into ASL
• English words with multiple meanings
have separate ASL signs and that
without proper knowledge of these
ASL signs and their appropriate
meanings, it is easy to misuse ASL
signs to represent English concepts.
• Please note that ONE and LETTER-D
are different handshapes.
Differences between ASL and PSE
• There is a range from pure ASL to
a mixture of ASL/English, and to
pure signed English, like the SEE
signs WAS, IS, AM, and WERE.
• The possessive ASL sign HAVE
should not be used as part of an
English tense. FINISH should be
used instead.
• Verb inflections REPEATEDLY
and CONTINUALLY
• Verbs tend to have one movement
and that nouns tend to have two
movements
PSE
ASL
SEE
Non-Manual Signals (NMS)
• NMS are facial
expressions used in
ASL sentence
structures as part of
their grammar.
• Appropriate facial
expressions
(morphemes) are also
used for certain signs
(lexical items)
Mouth Morphemes
• Mouth morphemes are
facial adverbs done with
the mouth.
• Puffed cheeks means fat
or big
• Mouthing CHA means big
• Sucked-in cheeks means
thin
• TH-tongue sticking out
means carelessly
• Tongue trill means far in
time or space
ASL Sentence Structures
ASL sentence structures are
• Y/N questions,
• Wh-Q questions,
• Topics, (similar to tag questions, but at the
beginning, not at the end of the sentence)
• Rh-Q questions,
• Negation, and
• If-then statements.
Sign Paradigms
• CHURCH signs and other related top-ofhand signs
• Surroundings signs: ENVIRONMENT,
CULTURE, SITUATION/SOCIETY
• Feeling finger signs
• GROUP signs
• HABIT signs, and the related signs
EVERY-SUNDAY, EVERY-MONDAY, etc.
• ILY handshape signs
• IMPORTANT, WORTH, WORTHLESS,
VALUE signs
• ROYALITY signs
• THINK signs
ASL Compounds
• In compounds, two or three
signs become one sign.
• GIRL-SAME becomes SISTER
• L-C-S becomes LINGUISTICS
• Often in compounds, double
movements are dropped to one
and double touches are
dropped to one.
ASL Use of Space
• One sets up an imaginary person in
space to refer to that person (token
or surrogate).
• Concepts can be placed in space,
just like imaginary people (tokens
and surrogates). For example, I
can put hearing culture on the right
side of me and Deaf culture on the
left side.
• Descriptions, actions, and
placement can be described with
classifiers and other iconic signs.
Deaf Culture/Hearing Culture
Differences between Deaf
people and hearing
people, like what they can
or can't do.
• Deaf people can sign with
their mouth full, for
example, and hearing
people can't, without
being rude.
ASL Mappings
• Use your left hand to list an object per
finger, like your siblings. Each finger
represented a sibling. The ASL sign
PRIORITY is an ordering of objects.
REVIEW is a review of objects.
CHOOSE is a choice of objects to pick
from.
• Describe your living room using the
appropriate layout and placement for
ASL
• Explaining directions on an imaginary
map in ASL
ASL Role-Play
• Repeat a dialogue using
appropriate eye gaze and
shoulder shifts.
• This role play is done in a manner
where you are taller than the
other person.
• This means you have to look
down and to one side when you
are representing yourself.
• Look up and to the other side
when you are representing the
other person.
Slides and Bounces
• A slide is use to describe a continuous
object, like a wall or a pipe.
• To represent plural instances of a sign, the
sign is produced in one of two ways:
– A slide is a sweeping motion that is
made to indicate a meaning of all
objects. No importance is assigned to
any of the objects.
– Bounces are a jumping motion that is
made to indicate a meaning of multiple
individual objects. Special importance
is assigned to each object.
Directional Signs
• Directional pronouns
– HE/SHE/IT, YOU-SINGULAR, and ME
use a 1-handshape point
– THEY and WE use a 1-handshape slide
– Possessive pronouns follow the same
rules, but use a 5-handshape.
• Directional verbs
– I-GIVE-EACH-OF-YOU uses bounces
– I-GIVE-ALL-OF-YOU uses a slide
Conclusion
• Any Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask!
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