Hi! Welcome to My Blog and feel free to look around. If you didn't know already, my project is going to be learning to use Sign Language. I always found this way of speaking, different, and ever since i learned about it, i have wanted to learn to use it. A bit of history about sign language, which I read about from Wikipedia:
One of the earliest written records of a sign language is from the fifth century BC, in Plato's Cratylus, where Socrates says: "If we hadn't a voice or a tongue, and wanted to express things to one another, wouldn't we try to make signs by moving our hands, head, and the rest of our body, just as dumb people do at present?"
And a bit about Classification:
Although sign languages have emerged naturally in deaf communities alongside or among spoken languages, they are unrelated to spoken languages and have different grammatical structures at their core.
Sign languages may be classified by how they arise.
Home sign is not a full language, but closer to a pidgin (link to the meaning, click the word). Home sign is amorphous and generally idiosyncratic to a particular family, where a deaf child does not have contact with other deaf children and is not educated in sign. Such systems are not generally passed on from one generation to the next. Where they are passed on, creolization would be expected to occur, resulting in a full language.
I thought it would be a good idea to learn this now, because I have always had a problem with hearing, so I can't understand what the person is saying. I also believe I have a small chance, with this problem, to be deaf later in life. So now you see what my project is and why I am doing it.
Enough about me and my project. What about you?
One of the earliest written records of a sign language is from the fifth century BC, in Plato's Cratylus, where Socrates says: "If we hadn't a voice or a tongue, and wanted to express things to one another, wouldn't we try to make signs by moving our hands, head, and the rest of our body, just as dumb people do at present?"
And a bit about Classification:
Although sign languages have emerged naturally in deaf communities alongside or among spoken languages, they are unrelated to spoken languages and have different grammatical structures at their core.
Sign languages may be classified by how they arise.
Home sign is not a full language, but closer to a pidgin (link to the meaning, click the word). Home sign is amorphous and generally idiosyncratic to a particular family, where a deaf child does not have contact with other deaf children and is not educated in sign. Such systems are not generally passed on from one generation to the next. Where they are passed on, creolization would be expected to occur, resulting in a full language.
I thought it would be a good idea to learn this now, because I have always had a problem with hearing, so I can't understand what the person is saying. I also believe I have a small chance, with this problem, to be deaf later in life. So now you see what my project is and why I am doing it.
Enough about me and my project. What about you?