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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