"Talk Talk"

[Interpretrator]

There is a new novel out called "Talk Talk " by T.C. Boyle, who writes these kind of strange, quirky books and stories that the critics tend to like a lot. It's about a deaf woman who has her identity stolen. It's been getting good reviews and I'm interested to read it since deaf people are generally not very realistically portrayed in general fiction. (I'm reading a book right now in which you can tell the author did a LITTLE research about deafness and just threw it in there along with whatever else sounded good.)

One review I read said this:

"The novel's title, "Talk Talk," refers to an expression the deaf have about what happens when they get together -- a torrent of communication unleashed in people who usually find communication difficult and incomplete."

What is the expression he's talking about? Is it this sign (which I usually see done faster and up near the face)?

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/C/W0604.htm

Or something else? I've never heard of an ASL expression that is glossed as "talk talk" but maybe I just missed out on it, or it's a regional thing.

 

[ayala920]

There is a new novel out called "Talk Talk " by T.C. Boyle, who writes these kind of strange, quirky books and stories that the critics tend to like a lot. It's about a deaf woman who has her identity stolen. It's been getting good reviews and I'm interested to read it since deaf people are generally not very realistically portrayed in general fiction. (I'm reading a book right now in which you can tell the author did a LITTLE research about deafness and just threw it in there along with whatever else sounded good.)

One review I read said this:

"The novel's title, "Talk Talk," refers to an expression the deaf have about what happens when they get together -- a torrent of communication unleashed in people who usually find communication difficult and incomplete."

What is the expression he's talking about? Is it this sign (which I usually see done faster and up near the face)?

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/C/W0604.htm

Or something else? I've never heard of an ASL expression that is glossed as "talk talk" but maybe I just missed out on it, or it's a regional thing.

I can't see the video, but I know the sign you mean. I've never seen it up by the face, though, only in front of the body.

 

[Reba]

"The novel's title, "Talk Talk," refers to an expression the deaf have about what happens when they get together -- a torrent of communication unleashed in people who usually find communication difficult and incomplete."

What is the expression he's talking about? Is it this sign (which I usually see done faster and up near the face)?

Or something else? I've never heard of an ASL expression that is glossed as "talk talk" but maybe I just missed out on it, or it's a regional thing.

The description sounds like "CHAT" to me but I've never before heard it glossed as "talk talk".