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Gestures to sign language - Coggle Diagram
Gestures to sign language
Visual-Gestural Language
Gestures are enhanced by facial expressoins
this includes: eyes, face, head, body posture hands and arms
sign language is a way of expressing with the body instead of voice
ASL represents three dimensional shapes demonstrate change is size, describe height, width interior as well as exterior spaces and finally people and objects in actions
Gestures may have came b4 spoken language
4 million years human-animal communicated by hands
human-animals used gestures because they are silent and they provide spatial manner and pointing and describing shapes.
Animals such as monkeys used sign language
Language means tongue however Stokoe disagreed and stated language is something done by the brain and the mouth happen to be one way it can come out.
Spoken and Signed Languages
spoken and written language peoples major communications
Spoken languages can be recorded easily and more sophisticated the longer humans have lived on the earth
Spoken language are similiar in structure while signed are similiar in hand movements and holds
Sign language Engraved in Deaf History
there are two versions of ASL old and new
Signs evolved
In ASL Signs were one handed and they moved to 2 handed
In ASl signs that were two handed moved to the face and became one handed