ACLASFU247
Elaborations
- recognising that Auslan has fully-lexical signs that are in the dictionary and have a standard handshape, movement and location, and partly-lexical signs that cannot be listed in a dictionary in all forms as gesture changes the form each time they are signed
- noticing that meaning is created in Auslan from fully-lexical signs, partly-lexical signs, non-lexical signing and gesture and comparing with the range of ways English speakers create meaning, including spoken words, modifying intonation, and gesture
- noticing that fully- and partly-lexical signs can include grammatical information not included in a ‘citation’ form, for example, the sign TELL-me is not listed separately to TELL (towards neutral space) and GO-TO includes GO-TO-often
- noticing that single-digit numbers can be separate lexical items or merged into other signs (numeral incorporation) such as those for ages (for example, 5-YEARS-OLD) or adverbs of time (for example, 3-WEEKS-AGO) or pronouns (WE3, WE4)
- identifying where and how a signer has established a location in space, for example through the use of points, non-body-anchored signs or fingerspelled words
- recognising that signers must make explicit which referent is associated with a location, but do not need to continue to make this explicit throughout a text
- recognising that signers can set up referents in the signing space close to them (viewer space, for example, using a bC handshape (use of non-dominant hand) to indicate putting a glass on a table) or distant (diagrammatic, for example, using 5claw in two locations to represent two houses)
- recognising that in viewer space, signers can use locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
- identifying instances of DSs and their type independently
- comparing English adjectives with SASS DSs
- learning that the function of CA is to represent the words, thoughts or actions of a protagonist in a text, either themselves or another
- knowing that in CA a signer can shift into the role of another, or themselves at a different time, through eye gaze change, body shift, head orientation change, and matching facial expressions