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Emergence of Colorful Communication - Coggle Diagram
Emergence of Colorful Communication
Deaf Laughs
Deaf laughs are classified into 4 categories: Visual, Cant hear, linguistics, response to oppression
Visual:
Deaf people perceive most things through their eyes, with this they find humor in many visual things. Shared experiences with other in the deaf community
Cant Hear
: The aspect of deaf humor focuses on the convenience of being deaf
Linguistics
: Linguistic humor is lexically based, as punchlines in many ASL jokes are related to word production
Response to oppression
:Deaf people who experience oppression fight back through humor, many stories that make up these jokes are made up of deaf people getting even with a hearing person
Deaf Storytelling Genre
ASL storytelling is made of gestures, mimes, signs, and facial expressions. Storytelling helps paint visual pictures of stories.
Origin of storytelling
: ASL storytelling is believed to have started with by deaf students who would mimic hearing teachers, many deaf people would use storytelling as means of communicating the storyline of movies that lack captions
Storytelling genres
: Deaf experiences, fictional original stories, creative stories
Deaf Humor
Deaf people use deaf humor to make fun of others or make fun of themselves
Categories of Deaf Humor include:
ASL, Deaf Culture, Hard of Hearing, Lip reading crisis
Interpreter Jokes:
Interpreter have played important roles of many deaf people, as they facilitate communication between a deaf person and a hearing person. Often some of these interactions have resulted in some undesired or unintentional results. Thus these miscommunications are joked about
Cartoons:
Deaf and hard of hearing illustrators have created cartoons to entrain and humor readers, these cartoons are broken up into 5 broad categories:
Communication, Lipreading, ASL, Interpreter, and technology
Deaf riddles
Deaf people have also made riddles about themselves
ASL Poetry
Prior to the 1970s there was no published records about ASL poets and poetry.
"In English poetry we play with words; in ASL poetry we play with signs"
. Due to the visuality of ASL poetry, through its signs and motions, ASL poetry is difficult if not impossible to recorded via writing.
Clayton Valli
Considered the first person to have analyzed ASL poetic devices. Valli researched the technical nature of ASL poetry and discovered that many poetic devices used in English poetry. He used signs direction, quality of movement, hand shape, location, and orientation of both hands to create "rhymes". Facial expressions and non-manual signs are also involved.
ASL poetry: Selected Works of Clayton Valli
is a videotape that contains an outstanding collage of ASL poems.
Deaf-Related Art Genre
Is meant to represent the difference between art
by
and
about
deaf people
"What is Deaf Workshop"
At this gathering, deaf artists sought to distinguish themselves from Deaf artist who produce art in any form for the general audiences
Facilitated by
Betty Miller (Painter), and Paul Johnson (Sculptor)
De'VIA (Deaf View/Image Art) Manifesto
Art that seeks to represent the deaf experience, from a cultural and linguistcal point of view
Symbolism of deaf culture included: exaggeration of facial features such as eyes, mouth, ears, etc.
Artist within this movement did not need to be deaf themselves, for example, Child of a deaf parent
National Theatre of the Deaf
Founded by director David Hays and 17 other members in Waterford Connecticut
1st to assemble a cast of professional deaf actors and actresses
Their first performance had 6 people in the audience, and to this day the company has traveled to all 50 states, making 80 national tours, and have performed over 7000 times
Deaf Music Genre
Deaf people feel music, watching for visual rhythms and body language of the musician
Clapping is common in deaf songs
Hollywood Then & Now
Misrepresentation in Hollywood
In the 1920's, deaf characters were played by hearing people and portrayed as uneducated /feeble minded and dependent on their hearing counterparts
Today the representation of the deaf community is no longer portrayed with a negative connotation, however many deaf roles still go to hearing actors
Marless Matlin: Known as the most successful deaf actress