1 / 231

Connecting with Deaf Community: Understanding Yes/No and WH Questions in ASL

Learn to ask questions in American Sign Language with raised eyebrows and distinguish between rhetorical and normal questions. Practice expressions like "Why?" and "Enjoy myself!" Enhance your ASL communication skills.

waltercannon
Download Presentation

Connecting with Deaf Community: Understanding Yes/No and WH Questions in ASL

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Lesson 58

  2. I encourage you to associate with Deaf people!

  3. Practice Sheet 58.A

  4. YES/NO questions raise the eyebrows

  5. "WH" type questions such as "WHY?"…

  6. … tend to lower the eyebrows.

  7. But rhetorical"WH" questions…

  8. … raise the eyebrows

  9. WHY-rhetorical

  10. WHY? [normal]

  11. YOU STUDY ASL WHY?

  12. Statements do not raise or lower the eyebrows.

  13. I don't-KNOW WHY.

  14. Rhetorical:answer my own question…

  15. I GO WHY? ENJOY MYSELF!

  16. ---

  17. IMAGINE imagination

  18. INTERRUPT

  19. BOTHER

  20. FINISHdone

  21. FINISH! Knock it off! Cut it out!

  22. You are bothering me. Knock it off! …

  23. *01. Sign this:

  24. BOTHER FINISH!

  25. LECTURE SPEECH

  26. CHAT [1] [2]

  27. TALK-with

  28. TALK via voice [1][2]

  29. WAVE-NO = dissuade = don’t do = not good

  30. DURING while parallel

  31. *02. Sign this:

  32. TALK DURING CLASS, WAVE-NO.

  33. OH-WOW Intense! Oh my heck!

  34. HARD

  35. EASY

  36. Take a class.

  37. Oh wow!You are taking Vicars' class?!? He's hard!

  38. *03.

  39. OH-WOW! YOU TAKE-up Dr. Vicars ASL CLASS!? HARD!

  40. GO

  41. TAKE-OFF! leave go

  42. machineryworkingIt is running.

  43. *04.

  44. CLASS FINISH YOU TAKE-OFF-[go] HOME YOU?

  45. GOODBYE GOODBYES

  46. TEND-to

  47. EXTENDED

  48. EXAGGERATE

  49. BRIEF short duration

  50. 05.

More Related