DEAF 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: American Sign Language Literature, Handshape, Cherology
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
ASL Poetic Techniques
Reading Assignments Due
- October 25th
o Excerpt of the Deaf Mutes Howls (Angels and Outcasts)
- November 1st
o Excerpt of No Sound (Angels and Outcasts)
o “The Noisy House,” “A Nice Romantic Dinner,” and “Yet: Jack Can Hear!”
(Deaf Way II Anthology)
Lecture
- Free Verse Poetry vs. Formal Verse Poetry (Metrical Poetry)
o Free Verse: a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from
limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms; such
poems are without rhythms and rhyme schemes, and do not follow regular rhyme
scheme rules, but still provide artistic expression
o Formal Verse: follows “rules” regarding stanza length and meter or rhyme
patterns; there are several traditional, commonly-known types of formal poetry
o H-Dirksen L. Bauman (2006) states that, “…decades of sign language linguistic
researcher have demonstrated that sign languages are rich in their own version
of phonology (or cherology). Rather than being constituted through sound
patterns, the particular handshape, movement path, palm orientation, and non-
manual signals are all phonemic aspects of a visual, spatial, and kinetic language
system. Just as in spoken languages, a rhyme is constituted by the repetition
of distinct phonemes” (p. 96).
o Mother Goose Example
▪ Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such a sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
• Sounds the same
English Rhymes
English Rhythms
ASL Rhymes
ASL Rhythms
Repeated use of
certain sounds
Repeated counts of
certain sounds
Repeated use of certain
handshapes, movement
paths, non-manual signs,
palm orientation,
locations, and
handedness
Repeated counts of
certain sings and
movements
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