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American Sign Language uses about twenty movements. These include lateral motion in the various directions, twisting the wrist (supinating or pronating the hand), flexing the wrist, opening or closing the hand from or into various handshapes, circling, wriggling the fingers, approaching a location, touching, crossing, or stroking it, and linking, separating, or interchanging the hands.
If a person is right-handed, then their right hand is their dominant hand, and their left hand is their non-dominant hand. Almost all signs are completed with the more active, dominant hand, while the non-dominant hand serves as a base. For signs requiring two hands, the dominant hand performs more of the active component. [30]
Unlike spoken language, sign languages have two articulators that can move independently. [22] The more active hand is termed the dominant hand whereas the less active hand is non-dominant. [23] The active hand is the same as the signer's dominant hand, although it is possible to switch the hands' role. [24]
(The “Horned Frog” hand sign used since 1980 shows the horned lizard’s “horns.” That is not a claw. Or a bunny rabbit.) Former TCU cheerleader Chad Schrotel, now of Waco, originared the ...
A self-clasping handshake is a gesture in which one hand is grasped by the other and held together in front of the body or over the head. In the United States , this gesture is a sign of victory, being made by the winning boxer at the end of a fight. [ 1 ]
In sign languages, handshape, or dez, refers to the distinctive configurations that the hands take as they are used to form words. [1] In Stokoe terminology it is known as the DEZ, an abbreviation of designator. Handshape is one of five components of a sign, along with location (TAB), orientation (ORI), movement (SIG), and nonmanual features ...
Plains Sign Language's antecedents, if any, are unknown due to a lack of written records. However, the earliest records of contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Gulf Coast region in what is now Texas and northern Mexico note a fully formed sign language already in use by the time of the Europeans' arrival there. [10]
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