From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V6 #134 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Monday, August 4 2003 Volume 06 : Number 134 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ASL question [Beth Simons ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 02:23:37 -0400 From: Beth Simons Subject: Re: ASL question i am in my second semester of ASL at my university. i would like to recommend a book to those of you who seem so fascinated with ASL and the interpreting that happened at falcon ridge--it's called "For Hearing People Only: Answers to the Most Commonly Asked Questions About the Deaf Community"...it's a compilation of articles from DEAF LIFE magazine, answering hearing people's commonly asked questions about Deaf culture, the Deaf reality, ASL, etc. the essay style makes it a really quick, easy, fascinating and energetic read--i highly recommend it! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0963401610/qid=1059891270/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-7013786-5664923?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 you can also find some pics of the terps at www.mv.com/ipusers/simons/beth/frff2003 ...the ASL pics are right at the beginning, and i'll have even more by next week when i scan in the rest... i took good advantage of my press pass at the festival, and was toting around 4 cameras--a 35mm SLR, a digital SLR, a digital point-and-shoot, and a digital video camera. i actually got an hour of footage of the various terps doing songs that i thought would really demonstrate the story-telling aspect of artistic interpretation. i haven't gotten to go back and watch them againm yet, but one that i'm particularly looking forward to is dar williams' "the babysitter"! let me know off-list if you want to be notified when i get those vids online. - --beth, ASL student and possibly-future-sign-language-interpreter, who shall now return to lurk mode... At 08:18 PM 8/2/2003 -0700, Ron Rosen wrote: >Thanks. Interesting. And sort of what I figured. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: >To: <> >Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 7:52 PM >Subject: Re: ASL question > > > > ASL is as much conceptual as literal in how things are "translated". ASL > > has a different syntax than english and more than one word can share an > > actual sign. it's the body language and contexts given with the words >that > > shape their "actual" meaning. body language itself shapes a word. the > > same "word" sign with a different facial expression will change it's > > meaning, either by definition or tense, or if it's a statement or >question, > > for example. and different interpreters may have different ways of > > interpreting the same phrases/lines, all of which could be considered > > correct. i saw annie wenz ask jody how to sign a line in one of her >songs. > > jody said "i would do it this way...". dave actually interpreted one of > > annie's sets, and his version of the same line was similar but had his own > > "twist" to it. "strict ASL" is not as strict as other languages, like > > english. adds to the beauty of it :-) > > > > amy p. > > hearing impaired with some knowledge of ASL > > > > > > Original Message: > > ----------------- > > From: Ron Rosen ronsopas@earthlink.net > > Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:41:08 -0700 > > To: edheads@efohio.com > > Subject: Re: ASL question > > > > > > > Fashion Avenue, for a little more support!"). Dave McCloskey's >depiction > > > of "support" brought the house down. And Jody Gill is insanely great, >too > > > -- not to disparage any of the other interpreters, these are just the >ones > > > I've been admiring the longest. > > > > Yes, it seemed to me that there is a certain amount of interpretation that > > the signers add that is probably not strict ASL. It looks like there's a > > lot of body language and free-lance involved. Maybe that's just the way >ASL > > is spoken. > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > > http://mail2web.com/ . <>o<>o<>o<>o<> Beth Simons beth@simons.mv.com Durham and Merrimack, NH (and St-Brieuc, France, at heart) "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." --Douglas Adams ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V6 #134 *****************************