离群聋儿自创手势与中国手语的比较研究

本文通过对19名农村离群聋儿自创手势的调查分析,得出聋儿自创手势的表达特点:(1)模仿事物的基本外形特征;(2)模仿事物的典型动作和神态;(3)表达事物的用途或功能;(4)直观模拟动作行为;(5)指代现场的事物。本文通过比较离群聋儿自创手势与中国手语后得出:聋儿具有发展手语的先天的生物学基础,具有获得手语的潜能,离群聋儿的自创手势是对生活经验的符号化,但他们的自创手势有局限性,抽象程度不高,是一种前手语(Pre-Sign language),中国手语的构成不完全是任意性的。

Comparative Research between Out-of-Deaf-Community Deaf Children's Home Sign and Chinese Sign Language

This article investigates and analyzes 19 out - of - deaf - community deaf children' s home sign in rural areas and then gets the characteristics of it: 1. Imitating basic form characteristics of things; 2. Imitating typical action and manner of things; 3. Expressing use and function of things; 4. Simulating action and behavior visually; 5. Referring things on the spot. Through comparison of home sign with Chinese Sign Language, the following conclusions are made: deaf children have biological foundation for developing sign language and have potentiality of obtaining sign language; out - of - deaf - community deaf children' s home sign is symbolization of life experience, but their home sign is a kind of pre - sign language with limitation of lacking abstractness; construction of Chinese Sign Language is not completely arbitrary.