DEAF 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ben Bahan, Mnemonic, Orality
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Transition from Orality to Literacy
ORAL VERNACULAR FORMS
LITERARY FORMS
Performative
Textual
Fluid, repeatable, variable
Permanent, fixed
Real-life interaction between the storyteller
and audience
Loss of interaction between the storyteller and
audience
Communal activity
Individual enterprise
Less conventional in structure
More conventional in structure
Decrease in aesthetic play and complexity
Increase in aesthetic play and complexity
Increase in use of mnemonic devices
Decrease in use of mnemonic devices
- Peters (2000) explains that, “Videotape is making possible the ‘textualization’ of ASL
works performed by ta flesh-and-blood signer. Just as an oral spoken story becomes text
when it is put on paper, taking on some of the characteristics of the medium of the written
page, so an ASL story becomes ‘text’ on videotape, acquiring characteristics of
(written) ‘textual’ works and losing some of its oral or vernacular characteristics”
(p. 180-181)
- Narrative Plot and Structure
o Exposition/Introduction
o Conflicting Situation (Plot Point 1)
o Complication/Rising Action
o Climax (Plot Point 2)
o Resolution/Denouement
- “For a Decent Living” by Sam Supalla
o Point of the Narrative
▪ Perseverance
▪ People think he can’t do anything but he proves them wrong
o Use of Metaphors and Parallels with the Deaf Community
o Use of the Plot Structure
- Literary Elements – Found in Narrative and Poetic Formats
o 1) Figurative Language
▪ Similes → My father rages like a lion.
▪ Metaphors → My father is a raging lion.
▪ Personification → The leaves dance in the wind.
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