John F. Sowa wrote:
> Pat,
>
> Since both singing and dancing are intimately connected
> with rhythm, I would imagine that their ASL was coordinated
> rhythmically.
>
Yes. I asked, and apparently it is rather like coordinated gestural
dancing in place, but while signing. Signing, done by and to native
signers, allows for a wide range of subtleties including spatial/motion
equivalents of emphasis, tone, emotion and other aspects of conventional
speech. So one can sign 'poetically' or 'ironically', etc., all of which
are used in such performances. Perhaps not surprisingly, the informant
clearly found it hard to explain to a non-native signer quite what the
effect was. (01)
What is interesting about this anecdote is that it emphasises the extent
to which human language is independent of any particular sensory
modality. Signers also exhibit the various forms of aphasia (Wernike's,
Broca's, etc.) from damage to the appropriate areas of the left temporal
lobe. I know what it is like to be entirely aphasic, and it has nothing
at all to do with hearing or sight. (02)
Pat
> > ... whether it was possible to sing in ASL. One of them
> > said that not only was it possible, but she was in fact
> > a member of her church's choir, which regularly 'sang'
> > hymns in front of the (all-deaf) congregation.
>
> John
>
>
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