The Spatial Nature of ASL for Teachers: June 08 UDOE

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    1. Helping Students Understand Space and Location in American Sign Language Doug Stringham 2008 Health Sciences Summer Workshop ©2008 Doug Stringham
    2. About Doug ©2008 Doug Stringham
    3. About you ©2008 Doug Stringham
    4. What we hope to cover today: ©2008 Doug Stringham
    5. 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
    6. Reset terminologies: ©2008 Doug Stringham
    7. “spatialization” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    8. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    9. “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
    10. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    11. “spatial nature of ASL” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    12. “using space” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    13. “locative relationships” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    14. “spatialization” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    15. What do we learn about the grammar of ASL by studying space? ©2008 Doug Stringham
    16. Let’s look at four grammatical markers or structures. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    17. (1) Defining subjects and objects in an utterance ©2008 Doug Stringham
    18. Subject and object identification is fundamental to all languages, signed or spoken. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    19. 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
    20. {subject} “The cat sits.” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    21. {subject} {object} “The cat chases the mouse.” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    22. Based on intent, ASL allows conversants to (re)define subjects and objects. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    23. {object} {subject} “The cat chases the mouse.” {subject} {object} “The cat chases the mouse.” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    24. {subject} “The cat sits over there in the corner.” {oblique object} {indirect object} ©2008 Doug Stringham
    25. (1a) Defining subjects and objects: Contrastive structure ©2008 Doug Stringham
    26. Often used to define subject and object groups which will be compared and/or contrasted in a discourse. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    27. “I have four children; three girls and a boy.” {subject 1} {subject 2} ©2008 Doug Stringham
    28. {subject/noun phrase 1} “Iraq’s sectarian violence boils down to Sunni and Shi’ite differences. {subject/noun phrase 2} ©2008 Doug Stringham
    29. (2) Ensuring verb agreement in in an utterance ©2008 Doug Stringham
    30. In English, verbs must agree temporally (tense). ©2008 Doug Stringham
    31. “It is nice outside yesterday. We was met for lunch.” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    32. In ASL, most verbs need to agree spatially (pronominally and directionally). ©2008 Doug Stringham
    33. Some exceptions: ©2008 Doug Stringham
    34. ‘to think’ ©2008 Doug Stringham
    35. ‘to act’ ©2008 Doug Stringham
    36. ‘to love’ ©2008 Doug Stringham
    37. How does the verb agree? “It was a good movie; Sarah told me so.” {subject} {object} ©2008 Doug Stringham
    38. 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
    39. Baker-Shenk, C. & Cokely, D. (1980). American sign language: A teacher’s resource text on grammar and culture. Wasington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    40. (3) Giving information about locative relationships in an ASL discourse ©2008 Doug Stringham
    41. In English, locative relationships are expressed lexically. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    42. Identify some examples of English locative markers: (In English/fingerspelled) ©2008 Doug Stringham
    43. In ASL, locative relationships are expressed spatially. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    44. Identify these locative relationships: (In ASL/signed) ©2008 Doug Stringham
    45. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    46. ASL locative information is typically expressed through (1) pronominal relationships (classifiers) and (2) indexing. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    47. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    48. (4) Giving information about temporal aspect in an ASL discourse ©2008 Doug Stringham
    49. The spatial ASL timeline ©2008 Doug Stringham
    50. ASL narrative timelines past > < past present < future present future > ©2008 Doug Stringham
    51. How do we show relativity in temporal information? ©2008 Doug Stringham
    52. ASL narrative timelines past > < past present < future present future > ©2008 Doug Stringham
    53. The Axes Hypothesis: What happens where? ©2008 Doug Stringham
    54. By studying ASL discourse, we begin to understand where certain genres of information are communicated. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    55. Narrative/discourse axes y z x ©2008 Doug Stringham
    56. Relative temporal X-axis space (timeline) Narrative space (‘the stage’) y Relative & absolute reference, locative, or nominalization z Others? past > < future x ©2008 Doug Stringham
    57. Hierarchy, ordered Y-axis numbers or lists Narrative space (‘the stage’) y Relative & absolute first/high reference, locative, or nominalization z Others? x last/low ©2008 Doug Stringham
    58. Universal temporal Z-axis space (metatimeline) Narrative space (‘the stage’) y Relative & absolute reference, locative, or nominalization z Others? < past x future > ©2008 Doug Stringham
    59. Video samples which illustrate these principles ©2008 Doug Stringham
    60. “How a Bill Becomes Law” http://www.odi.govt.nz/documents/video/how-a-bill-becomes-law.mp4 ©2008 Doug Stringham
    61. “The Exodus Story” ©2008 Doug Stringham
    62. “New York School f/t Deaf” WROCC Technical Sign Interviews ©2008 Doug Stringham
    63. “Deaf Ninja” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91KVUXRBq8 ©2008 Doug Stringham
    64. “The Ball” Signing Naturally, Ch. 16; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOoIcuA-0A4 ©2008 Doug Stringham
    65. Where in the curriculum do we teach about spatial manipulation? ©2008 Doug Stringham
    66. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    67. 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
    68. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    69. 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
    70. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    71. Do language ≠ Know language ©2008 Doug Stringham
    72. How else can we get students to do language? ©2008 Doug Stringham
    73. (Y)our students are tech-savvy. Try them. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    74. 1. Handheld technologies iPod Nano (2006) iPod Touch (2007) ©2008 Doug Stringham
    75. Handheld technologies Motorola Q (2006) Sony PSP (2005) ©2008 Doug Stringham
    76. 2. Internet video and discourse mapping ©2008 Doug Stringham
    77. vixy.net: Capture YouTube video for offline viewing ©2008 Doug Stringham
    78. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    79. 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
    80. ©2008 Doug Stringham
    81. noun rb verbnoun ve b noun r noun ve noun noun …sentence + sentence + sentence… ©2008 Doug Stringham
    82. + grammar = ©2008 Doug Stringham
    83. language ©2008 Doug Stringham
    84. 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
    85. Other suggestions? ©2008 Doug Stringham
    86. 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
    87. Thank you. dstringham@gmail.com ©2008 Doug Stringham
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