Talking From Hand To Mouth

Blog # 2
Sign language has always been interesting to me. My second grade teacher used it a lot. She taught us the alphabet and simple phrases in sign language. Unfortunately that was about the only education in sign language that I got. I think it is very interesting how the same word used as a different part of language, (subject, verb, adjective.) has its own symbol. In regular English a word means and it is spell the same almost always, no matter what part of language it is. I really liked the example that the reading gave about a deaf child using different gestures to communicate a simple idea about a mouse. We would think that a mouse, would be the same gesture no matter if it was used as a verb or a subject, but it is not like that. A deaf child uses different gestures to communicate, "the mouse goes in the hole," than in "the mouse ate the cheese." The only difference is that in one, the mouse is a subject and in the other a transitive verb, yet the child gives different gestures. Nonverbal communication is very interesting.