Monday, September 19, 2011
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Third Kind of Tolerance in Deaf Hate Crime
The meaning of tolerance is to be able to put up with somebody or something. Basically, you do not like this person or thing, but you will deal with him or it. In the other words, you can tolerate him or it. Some people can tolerate someone joking about “flying monkeys (see the December 9th hate speech text below),” while others can hardly tolerate an “odd balls” joke. But they all can’t tolerate a death or "no balls" joke.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
The Earliest Video of ASL DRAGON (11/14/2006)
I developed the very first video of ASL Dragon. Click: http://carl-schroeder.blogspot.com/2006/11/asl-dragon-on-video.html. It's very difficult to decipher and requires numerous interpretations.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Thinking Syntactically in American Sign Language
Since 1960's, especially after the publication of William C. Stokoe's first Dictionary of American Sign Language based on linguistic principles, many types of linguistic theories have been developed in an attempt to explain how ASL is used and formed. An approach that has given rise to a lot of exciting discoveries is the one initiated by Bob Johnson and Scott Liddell which is known as "hold-movement models." One of the properties of hold-movement models which I think makes ASL particularly attractive is that it uses a methodology modeled on what is used in the natural sciences.
When we examine ASL, we "think about ASL" in a scientific way: we elaborate our analyses using a scientific methodology, a hunt for order, explanation and regularity. To clarify the notion "order" let us look at the parameters: hand configurations, palm orientations, onset-coda locations, non-manual morphemes, and modifier movements. We refer to these parameters as "grammar": a sign is stood in a syntactically subordinate relation to another sign with descriptive, limiting or particularizing "explanation." In ASL, we unconsciously apply linguistic rules, which are systematic patterns--"regularity."
ASL is not a spectator sport, where we sit on the sidelines and watch others perform. Rather, we get involved to enter the world of the Deaf and the mindset of the Deaf.
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