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Chapter Fourteen: Deaf Gain - Coggle Diagram
Chapter Fourteen: Deaf Gain
Chelsee Patterson 12/2/21
Senses & Culture
"Communication constitutes the core of culture and indeed of life itself"
Gestures
"Home signs"
Socrates referring to people of Athens
SL 350BCE
All sign languages currently used in the world have had the same starting point
606 signs in dictionary / 465 signs made in facial area
Signs evolved over time to locations that provide clearer visual access
Patterns of evolution: assimilation, symmetry, displacement, centralization
Signs to evolve for visual access, assimilation and economy
Eyes can send and receive signals
Eye gaze plays in managing turn taking
Eye contact with audience
Proxemics & Physical space
Not based on sound but ability to see each other clearly
Reading the world
Periphery among native sinus begins at early age
Sensory reach / sharing of one's sensory reach
Doors & windows
Touch is the most fundamental sense
Sound travels by air and through land or vibration
Gallaudet's tactile party
Different touches send out different meanings
Cross-cultural conflicts
Issue of touch - white middle class
Live in a society afraid of touch
Visual Tactile
Voice & Identity
Signed languages visual tactile
Spoken languages audio-vocal
Minute a person speaks his/her identity can be immediately revealed
Voice tempo: Speaks rapidly - perceived as witty, smooth and quick minded
Speak slow - dim-witted and slow-minded
Voiceprint
Deaf speech at its best is irritating to hearing people
Deaf people are taught how to laugh
Misperceptiion stems from the hearing peers' cultural interpretations of noise-related behaviors that signal anger, happiness, etc.
Judgments are carried into the bathroom
Grunting noises
Grunting and tennis
Deaf touch court cases
A person does not control sound...carries negative cultural implications