The Deaf Don’t Gesture, They « Sign » 
Contemplating the specifics of deaf language, and the sense of identity that accompanies it, is to question the cliché that the Deaf gesture to communicate. The Deaf have a language which is not limited to movements substituting words with actions or a simple adaptation of spoken language to gesture. In fact, linguistic differences are as diverse as the Deaf communities which convey them. Their relationship to language becomes a rhetoric, paradoxically entrenching the deaf language difference in nature, a kind of spontaneous inclination often reducing sign language to instinct and innate gestures. Sign language is somehow a quality connecting the Deaf. This article explores three ways of interpreting the connection between sign languages and deaf bodies.