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Visual Variety of the Human Race - Coggle Diagram
Visual Variety of the Human Race
People of the eye
"As long as we have deaf people on Earth, we will have signs" (Veditz, page 84).
We had a discussion about this topic in class about what would happen if one day deaf people just disappeared.
"we cannot be truly human apart from communication...to impede communication is to reduce people to the status of things" (page 84).
Eye gaze in sign
Lexical level means that the eye gaze is trained at the person or object they are mentioning but then looking back to the addressee.
Syntactic level is when the eyes gaze where they signer is pointing.
Indefinite references is associated with a gaze that is not particularly trained on anything is is described as a "diffused gaze" (page 85).
When the verb phase is used the eyes will look in the direction of what is being mentioned in a conversation. It serves as a nonmanual marker to indicate that whatever they are looking at is being talked about.
Eye Gaze in conversation
The eyes of a signer while continously move "for various lingistic and discourse-realted reasons and gazes back to the adressee to check on him/her, to keep him/her involved, and/or to give a turn" (page 86).
if there is a heated arguement a signer will minimize direct eye contact as to not be interuppted by the other person
If another person wants to sign they capture the attention of the person signing by will put their hands up in the view of the other person and start signing.
Using I-gaze and G-gaze
Visual Lang. & the brain
EEG's and fMRI's shows that deaf people have advanced perpherial skills
signing deaf people make the use of their vision a lot more
spatial processing: recall, compare, and identify various mental and visual images
Visual-cultural adaptations
dogs/cats help notice things
Being aware of peoples gazes
cars/vehicle movements
double checking a room before leaving
They are always conscious of space when it comes to line of sight
need to be in sync
Signing needs
Proper lighting
windows vs doors