sign language in communication
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Sign Language in Communication
-Prepared ByMeera N. Hapaliya
PG13CE008V.V.P. Engineering College
Overview
• Introduction• Types of Sign Languages• Types of Sign Languages ( Based on Country )• Sign Languages in Society• Comparison of FSL & ASL• Example
Introduction
• A Sign language, any means of communication through
bodily movements, especially of the hands and arms, used
when spoken communication is impossible or not desirable.
• In linguistic terms, sign languages are as rich and complex
as any oral language , but they are not "real languages".
• It is a conventional communication which is a part of non-
verbal communication.
Introduction
• This can involve simultaneously combining hand shapes,
orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and
facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's thoughts.
• They share many similarities with spoken languages, which is
why linguists consider both to be natural languages, but there
are also some significant differences between signed and
spoken languages.
Introduction
Types of Sign Language
• There are 7 types of sign language:-
1. Sign language for the deaf
2. Sign language for people who are deaf and blind
3. Sign language for children and adults with special needs
4. Sign language for babies - a most fabulous way to
understand and communicate with hearing baby, before he
or she can speak!
Types of Sign Language
5. Sign language for communicating with animals for example
dogs and dolphins.
6. Home sign is not a full language, but it is used for a particular
family, where a deaf child does not have contact with other
deaf children and is not educated in sign.
7. A village sign language is a local language is used both by the
deaf and by a significant portion of the hearing community,
who have deaf family and friends.
Types of Sign Language (Based on Country)
1. BANZSL, or British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language - These 3-
British Sign Language (BSL), Auslan &New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL)
may technically be considered as a single language (BANZSL) because
they use same grammar, manual alphabet, & the high degree of lexical
sharing (overlap of signs).
2. Auslan -The sign language of the Australian deaf community.
3. Paget Gorman Signed Speech - A signing system used with speech to help
those with language difficulties. There are 37 basic signs.
4. Sign Supported English or SSE - The preferred signing system for hearing
people to communicate with the deaf.
Types of Sign Language (Based on Country)
5. Pidgin Signed English or PSE - A very crude signing system. It combines
elements of BSL and spoken English to allow communication between
hearing people and deaf.
6. American Sign Language (ASL) - Is a complete, complex language that
includes hand movements, including facial expressions & postures of
the body. It is the 1st language of many deaf North Americans, and the
4th most commonly used language in the United States.
⁻ ASL is the dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United
States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, & in parts of Mexico.
Types of Sign Language (Based on Country)
7. British Sign Language (BSL) - Is the sign language used in the United
Kingdom (UK), and is the first or preferred language of deaf people in the
UK; the number of signers has been put at 30,000 to 70,000. The language
makes use of space and involves movement of the hands, body, face and
head.
8. Mexican Sign Language - Widely used in Mexico city, Monterrey and in
Guadalajara. It varies even within a country. In Mexico, most people use the
Mexican sign language. It is also known as "lengua de señas mexicana",
"Lenguaje de Signos Mexicano" or simply LSM. It is mainly used in the
urban region by about 87000 people.
Types of Sign Language (Based on Country)
9. Finger Spelling - It is used to spell out names, places, and anything
else there is not a sign for. Many times new words take longer to spell
out into BSL so must be spelled before a sign is adopted.
10. New Zealand Sign Language or NZSL - The main language of the Deaf
community in New Zealand. It was devised by and for Deaf people, &
it is fully capable of expressing anything a fluent signer wants to say.
11. Signed English or SE - It is used to help with reading and writing &
has important signs to teach grammar. It has one sign to represent
each word in the English language, but is not a language like BSL.
Sign languages in Society
1. Telecommunications:- A deaf person using a remote VRS interpreter
to communicate with a hearing person.
2. Sign language interpretation:- An ASL interpreter appearing at a rally.
Sign languages in Society3. Remote interpreting:- Video Interpreter sign used at VRS/VRI service
locations.
4. Home sign:- Sign systems are sometimes developed within a single
family. For instance, when hearing parents with no sign language
skills have a deaf child, an informal system of signs will naturally
develop, unless repressed by the parents. The term for these mini-
languages is home sign (sometimes homesign or kitchen sign).
Sign languages in Society
5. Use of signs in hearing communities:- On occasion, where the
prevalence of deaf people is high enough, a deaf sign language has
been taken up by an entire local community.
6. Sign language and children :- Sign language is becoming a popular
teaching style among hearing parents for young hearing children.
Comparison Of FSL & ASL
ExampleThe Moon Alphabets for the blind
(WILLIAM MOON (1818-1894) )
ExampleThe poetic language uses each of these modes of
communication, mixing various signs of language (roman alphabet, Braille, sign language, walrus and phonetic): it is
a multiple language.
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