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ASL Folklore and colorful communication - Coggle Diagram
ASL Folklore and colorful communication
humor is seen as the deaf communities fifth sense
ASL is a visual language better understood signed rather than written
humor can be "lost in translation" to outsiders culture
to understand a culture's humor you have to understand and know the culture first
deaf folklore helps develop pride in deaf culture - characteristics passed on from one person to another, generation to generation
storytelling is like painting a visual picture of a tale, comes from residential deaf schools
deaf life experiences, can be fictional or non fic may include interactions with hearing people, outsmarting them or their ridicule
stories were created at times with movies which did not have captioned in earlier deacades
lexically based humor, ex: King Kong clapping
visual base to much of deaf humor and culture
Deaf humor can be a response to oppression, to fight back or deal with
Deaf community jokes about everyone including themselves
Deaf culture: notes at the bar between 3 strangers
there is traditional jokes that are a playing with verbs, like the timber joke
understaning deaf jokes is having some sort of immersion in deaf community and language
most hearing people will not 'follow' deaf humor and vice verse
Deaf Arts, signed poetry is recognized in the 1970s
Signed arts like asl poetry are almost impossible to write down
De'VIA Manifesto, is written to represent deaf artists and their perceptions with their experience
Betty Miller an artist, exposes the heavy emphasis and push on hearing and lip reading
National deaf theater in the 1970s is being formally taught in deaf universities, and Hollywood although still severely lacking in representation is seeing deaf actress like marlee matlin
deaf culture and music, vibrations and body language of artist is appreciated, others might not care for music at all