American Sign Language Assignment
American Sign Language 1
26 September 2011
Introduction to ASL
Writing Assignment
American Sign Language
|Noun: A form of sign language developed in the US for the use of people who are deaf, consisting of over 4,000 signs. |
|American Sign Language is a very useful way of communicating amongst people who are deaf. A common misconception among people is that they |
|think that sign language is universal and that people in every country sign the same way. Sign Language is not universally the same. Most |
|countries have their own Sign Language or share a given Sign Language with a different dialect. Sign Language is not just an alphabet where |
|you have to sign each letter of the word you are trying …show more content…
It's rarely required to spell a word because no sign exist. For example names and surnames are often |
|spelled. The alphabet can serve as a great starting point to learn Sign Language. The grammar differs from the written English. When |
|questions are formed, the arrangement of the words is different, that it would be as if you were speaking the language. For example, in |
|English, you as someone, how are you? When signing this, you have to ask, you how? With sign language, people are still able to express |
|thoughts and feelings on philosophy, literature, or politics as football, cars or income taxes. Using sign language, people are also able to |
|express poetry as well as someone who uses English verbally. As well as in other languages, new vocabulary and words are being thought of by |
|people as a reaction to the way society around us changes. |
|American Sign Language has been developed by deaf people themselves who wanted to have their own way of communicating with each other. In |
|1817, Laurent Clerc and Thomas H. Gallaudet established the first school for the deaf in Connecticut. Usually in school, signs were not
26 September 2011
Introduction to ASL
Writing Assignment
American Sign Language
|Noun: A form of sign language developed in the US for the use of people who are deaf, consisting of over 4,000 signs. |
|American Sign Language is a very useful way of communicating amongst people who are deaf. A common misconception among people is that they |
|think that sign language is universal and that people in every country sign the same way. Sign Language is not universally the same. Most |
|countries have their own Sign Language or share a given Sign Language with a different dialect. Sign Language is not just an alphabet where |
|you have to sign each letter of the word you are trying …show more content…
It's rarely required to spell a word because no sign exist. For example names and surnames are often |
|spelled. The alphabet can serve as a great starting point to learn Sign Language. The grammar differs from the written English. When |
|questions are formed, the arrangement of the words is different, that it would be as if you were speaking the language. For example, in |
|English, you as someone, how are you? When signing this, you have to ask, you how? With sign language, people are still able to express |
|thoughts and feelings on philosophy, literature, or politics as football, cars or income taxes. Using sign language, people are also able to |
|express poetry as well as someone who uses English verbally. As well as in other languages, new vocabulary and words are being thought of by |
|people as a reaction to the way society around us changes. |
|American Sign Language has been developed by deaf people themselves who wanted to have their own way of communicating with each other. In |
|1817, Laurent Clerc and Thomas H. Gallaudet established the first school for the deaf in Connecticut. Usually in school, signs were not