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Story Types (Narratives of Deaf Experience (Some contain ordinary…
Story Types
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Songs
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Sign languages often have their own visual rhythm that is completely separate from that of the hearing one.
Hymns that are translated with the rules of signed poetry in mind tend to be beautiful on their own.
Contemporary music is often signed by hearing people who are learning sign language as it's fun to play with a new language and have the experience of hearing the song and signing it.
Cinematic Stories
This is not a direct translation as they are not doing every bit of dialogue. The idea is to take the visual ideas behind the film and depict that in ASL. Action films are most commonly used for this as the dialogue isn't terribly important.
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Stories with Constraints
ABC stories are the most common example of this because they teller must confine their story to follow the handshapes and order of the manual alphabet,
Sometimes ABC stories are considered more advanced than plotted stories because it takes a skilled signer to manipulate the restraints of the manual alphabet to your needs and still get a story across to the audience.
ABC stories are more a part of the culture in sign languages that have a one-handed manual alphabet like ASL, but sometimes they also just aren't. BSL doesn't use them because their alphabet is two-handed, but Ireland has a one handed alphabet and just doesn't have a history with ASL stories.
Traditional Deaf Stories
Not defined by the content, but rather the origin.
Originally called lamppost trope because deaf people would stand under a lamppost in order to see fellow signers after deaf clubs had closed for the night.
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