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Deaf Folklore - Coggle Diagram
Deaf Folklore
Visual
Deaf people use their eyes as their ears, and acquire language visually.
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The culture is reinforced through shared experience of how deaf people see the world and translate into world.
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Can't Hear/Linguistic
A significant amount of deaf folklore contains stories and jokes that deal with the inability to hear.
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Much of linguistic humor is lexically based, and the punch lines in ASL jokes are related to word production.
Response to Oppression
Deaf people who experience oppression fight back through humor by showing hearing people getting outsmarted by Deaf people.
Often called "Zap" stories, shows deaf people getting even.
A big pet peeve to most deaf people is "can you read my lips?", often replied with "can you read my signs?"
Hard Of Hearing
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One joke was that "every time opportunity came knocking, I missed it because I was in the shower and my hearing aid was on the sing."
Another joke was that a man was married to his wife for 55 years, and his friend ask about if he has to go through the nagging, and the man replies "What?'
Lipreading
This can be said to be a crisis to many deaf people because sometimes it is hard to interpret what a person is saying
In the old days, it was common to see teachers with mustaches and beards, which created greater barriers for deaf students
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ASL/ Deaf Culture
A joke by Dr. Lynn Jacobowitz was that by the 2093, cochlear implant will be on the hands to help people sign better.
One joke about the deaf reading lips was that a wife was mad at her husband and was yelling and cursing, so he just turned off the light.