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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Jun 20, 2001 10:30 pm Subject: Re: "ABC Stories" in ASL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cecelia Smith wrote: >However, I am also familiar with "handshape" stories .. which is what I would >have termed what Val described - using a single handshape for an entire >story. For example, the handshape for the nuimber 1 -- using both hands, >you can show 2 people approach, bump into each other, turn away ... look >back, come together, walk away together -- end with the sign "friend" (which >uses that hand shape.. basically) SignWriting List June 20, 2001 Yes! Cecilia...this is exactly what I was thinking of....Last evening I was talking with a linguist on the telephone and I told her of my misunderstanding about the ABC stories and she told me that she had attended a lecture once, by Bernard Bragg, a Deaf actor here in the US. Bernard had mentioned the kind of story you mention above...so they did exist...but hard to know if any of them are written down and preserved...that would be a great preservation project...to go to the Deaf schools to record their literature... Val ;-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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