The Spatial Nature of ASL for Teachers: June 08 UDOE

Reset terminologies Grammatically, what do we learn about ASL when we study its spatial nature? The Axes Hypothesis: What types of information typically occurs in certain axes of the signer’s space? Where in the curriculum do we teach about spatial manipulation? What are some ways we can encourage students to do language rather than know language? ©2008 Doug Stringham

“Spatialization is the aspect of music related with space...” “The Spatialization of Knowledge and Social Relationships” “Illegal Immigration and the Spatialization of Legality” “homogenous spatialization...and European colonialization” “Spatialization, Economic Investment, and Labor Outcomes” “ambisonic spatialization” ©2008 Doug Stringham

Deﬁnitions Subject: a noun that represents a person, place or thing that does something. Object: also a subject; subclassiﬁed: Direct object: a noun that another subject acts upon Indirect object: a noun that is the recipient of or affected by the subject Oblique object: nouns that generally occur in prepositional phrases ©2008 Doug Stringham

How ASL verbs are spatially inflected: Directionally: Geographically: verb is spatially inflected verb is spatially inflected to show who subjects and to indicate distance objects are relationships between subject and object Reciprocally: verb is spatially inflected to Situationally: show that subjects and verb is spatially inflected to objects have simultaneous show where action takes interaction place on subject or object ©2008 Doug Stringham

Signing Naturally (Level 1) Chapter 3: Talking about your surroundings (real-world orientation) Unit 4: Telling where you live (real-world orientation) Unit 5: Talking about your family (contrastive structure) Unit 7: Giving directions (spatial referencing) Unit 9: Making requests (spatial verbs and referencing) Unit 11: Attributing qualities (constructed dialogue and structure) ©2008 Doug Stringham

Signing Naturally (Level 2) Unit 13: Locating things around the house (locatives and weak-hand referencing) Unit 15: Personal information; life events (classiﬁer predicates and contrastive structure) Unit 16: Describing and identifying things (classiﬁer predicates) ©2008 Doug Stringham

represent spatial zones (clusters or pegs) where speciﬁc linguistic features occur peg linguistic features: nominals pronominals unidirectional verbs (signer is agent or actor) unidirectional verbs (signer is recipient or actee) ©2008 Doug Stringham

3. Assign group class projects Retell known or novel stories: what was the Friday night football game like? What do you do at your job? Where did you and your friends hang out last Thursday? ©2008 Doug Stringham

Additional Readings and References Baker-Shenk, C. & Cokely, D. (1980). American Sign Language: A teacher’s resource text on culture and grammar. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. Valli, C. & Lucas, C. (2000). Linguistics of American Sign Language: An introduction. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. Mikos, K., Smith, C., & Lentz, E. (1992) Signing Naturally: Levels 1 & 2. San Diego: DawnSignPress. ©2008 Doug Stringham

The Spatial Nature of ASL for Teachers: June 08 UDOE

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