The book presents information on Signed English systems. These systems are created by committees. They determine how the English-based signs should be presented. One rule often associated with such systems is there is only one sign associated with each English word, regardless of its meaning. A classic example is the English word, “run”, which has multiple meanings. In a contrived English-based system, you will see the sign, “to run”, for all meanings of “run”. However, in ASL, each meaning is signed in a conceptually accurate manner. So, a run in a person’s stocking would be signed differently in ASL (RUN-IN-STOCKING). Another usage of the word, run, is running for office. In this context, in ASL the word run would be signed with APPLY instead of RUN. The last example is using NOSE-DRIPPING, for a runny nose. |