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Story Types (What are stories? (A story has a plot and character who is…
Story Types
What are stories?
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Many different forms: perhaps as narratives, poems or as dramatic theatre pieces.
A story has a plot and character who is the focus of the action (the protagonist) may very along a scale.
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Narratives of deaf experience are categorized by their content as they all relate something of deaf people's lives.
Deaf Every-man: an ordinary character that the storyteller hopes the audience can relate to and others are more directly personal life stories that may be considered a type of memoire.
What is Memoire?
Memoire is an established form of literature in many cultures, in which people tell stories of their own life, often so that other people can learn from their experience.
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Traditional stories in the canon of a canon of a deaf community's sign language heritage are defined not so much by their content or from but by their origin.
Using signs to tells the story in a book aims to encourage deaf children to read and teaches them about the society and culture they share with hearing people.
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Single hand-shape stories are constrained simply by rules occurring within a sign language requiring the signer to use a particular hand-shape.
ABC stories
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The storyteller creates a story in which each successive sign uses the hand-shapes of letters from the natural alphabet, running from A to Z.
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The content in the cinematic stories is determined by the makers f the film but signers choose specific films for retelling in sign language.