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Chapter 7: Emergence of Colorful Communication - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 7:
Emergence of Colorful Communication
Folklore Through Signs, Words, and Art
deaf people have their own unique ways of storytelling
signs, gestures, miming, expressions
painting a visual picture
stories may be too complex to those who dont know anything about the deaf community
knowledge in fingerspelling may be needed to understand jokes
Deaf people find their deafness humorous
can laugh at themselves
Deaf Laughs
visual
deaf people will find many visual things humorous that hearing people wouldnt
can't hear
good amount of jokes are based off the fact that deaf people cant hear
linguistic
punch lines are related to word punctuation (sign production)
response to oppression
fight oppression with humor by showing deaf people outsmarting hearing people
Jokes/Humor
make fun of themselves or others
jokes don't translate over the same in English
deaf humor is deeply embedded in their culture
hearing people will find jokes not funny
if you know you know type situation
Jokes Continued
jokes are different based off how hearing was lost
hard of hearing
off their misunderstandings
deaf culture
signs