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The History of Deaf humor and Cartoons - Coggle Diagram
The History of Deaf humor and Cartoons
Deaf laughs
Ben Bahan states deaf humor is deeply embedded in culture. People outside of the deaf community will not understand the jokes.
M.J Bienvenu describes how deaf laughs are divided into four categories; Visual, Can't Hear, Linguistic, and Response to Oppression.
Visual
Deaf people rely firmly with their eyes. Deaf humor has a strong visual base. They might find visual things funny that not many people at first will notice or understand.
Can't Hear
There are a fair amount of jokes in deaf folklore that include the inability to hear.
Linguistic
Lexically based. ASL jokes are related to word production.
Response to Oppression
Deaf people use humor to fight back oppression by outsmarting hearing people. For example, one of the biggest pet peeve for deaf people is "Can you read my lips?" The immediate response deaf people say is "Can you read my signs?"
Interpreter Jokes
Interpreters are important in the lives of Deaf people.
Interpreters have interactions that have been unintentional or unnecessary.
Humor
Deaf people love to make fun of themselves.
Which the jokes are categorized into ASL, Deaf Culture, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing, and Lipreading Crisis.
Hard of Hearing
ALso enjoy humor about misunderstandings
ASL Humor
For instance, Dr. Lynn Jacobwitz writes a joke "in the year 2093, cochlear implants will be on hands to sign better."
Deaf humor involves mime, gesture, cinematic effects and a lot of spontaneous sign play.
Roy Holcomb
His art has contributed a lot to deaf humor. Family did not know he was deaf until the age of 9.
He was for the who popularized the term "Total Communication".
Has two Deaf sons named Samuel and Thomas. Samuel is a lecturer in ASL interpreting at NTID. His other son, Thomas is a professor of Deaf studies in Ohlone College.
The three of them have published a book called Deaf Culture Our Way. Which is a collection of narratives from the deaf community.
A book named
For Hearing People only
Compares the history and enjoyment of jokes between hearing and deaf people.
Deaf people do not follow hearing humor which is the same for vice versa. Hearing people do not comprehend deaf humor since it is visually based.
There are five themes, Communication, Lipreading, ASL, Interpreter, and Technology.
Communication
Deaf people are often stuck in situations where they are not able to communicate with their hands.
Lipreading
Deaf people deal with a ton of lipreading occurrences frequently.
ASL
Sometimes when a hearing person speaks to a Deaf person with a familiar sign. A conversation can be expressed . ASL is a language which takes time and effort to be fluent.
interpreter and Technology
Interpreters are often on the end of deaf jokes and even in illustrations.
New innovative way in how to use modern technology are illustrated within the deaf community. Modern tech takes a while to learn and can enhance deaf people's everyday life.