ACLASFU246
Elaborations
- identifying, demonstrating and describing the various types of NMFs: movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body
- identifying and describing the function of various NMFs in a signed text
- understanding that the elements of a sign can be arbitrary, for example, the handshape or movement of the sign WHY, or meaningful, such as the movement and the handshape in the sign GIVE
- recognising that some signs can occur with a standard mouth gesture and that these are sometimes called multi-channel signs
- understanding that signs can be iconic in a number of ways, such as representing a whole object or part of an object
- beginning to identify and describe metaphorical iconicity, for example, LOVE, AVOID/RESIST, and discussing how it relates to metaphors in English, for example the ‘time as space’ metaphor in both languages
- transcribing part of a text using either annotation software such as ELAN or glossing, and recording what signs were used, spatial locations and NMFs