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Chapter Eleven: Deaf Gain - Coggle Diagram
Chapter Eleven: Deaf Gain
Chelsee Patterson 11/10/21
Deafness and Rhetoric
Chirologia focuses on natural expression of hands / their meaning
Chironomia focuses on art of rhetoric
Pathomyotomia focuses on facial muscles, movements, expression
Philocophus focuses on deaf people, sign language, proposed school for the deaf
Gestures are universal language of humane nature
Gesture deaf people have in common with hearing people
Gestures are as valid as the tongue and they are 'mind of the body'
Tongue is the 'power of eloquence and reeason'
Deafness and Rhetoric
No compelling reason that people should talk
Number of gestures exceeds 'numerical store of words'
In religion, the body is superior to the tongue
Speech cannot function properly without gestures
two instruments: speech and hand
Bulwer accused of being overly utopian and idealistic
IIf people didn't move in one way or another, they'd be like plants
Sign language can be used as a pathway to learning to read, write, talk
Deafness and Rhetoric
Abbé de l'Epée of France pioneered deaf education
By the time Abbé was finished, general opinion had started to imagine it feasible
Bulwer - 1st British person write emphatically about deafness / sign language
Bulwer - "Found father of British sign language research"