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Understanding ASL Grammatical Features and Discourse Mapping
The document introduces discourse mapping as a tool to help sign language interpreters and users cognitively organize and retell messages in ASL texts. It discusses analyzing ASL grammatical features like nominal structures, verbs, and complex sentences. Small groups will practice incorporating grammatical features into discourse maps - visual representations of how ideas chunk and link together. The mapping process involves watching a text multiple times to observe linguistic features and spatial relationships, then representing and discussing these to confirm comprehension before retelling the text. Discourse mapping aims to replicate logical ASL organization to improve interpretation and language ability.
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- 1. Understanding ASL GrammaticalFeatures and Discourse Mapping Jeff Pollock and Doug Stringham 2007 USDB Fall Workshop
- 2. Review and identifysalient ASL grammatical structures: nominal and pronominal structures verbal and adverbial structures complex sentences Introduce and demonstrate discourse mapping Work in small groups to incorporate ASL grammatical features in our work Debrief and evaluate
- 3. Seeing and TellingASL: Discourse Mapping
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- 6. Patterns, styles, scripts, and genres in how and what we communicate:
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- 8. discoursal message intent, affect,prosody grammatical construction, rules syntactical/sentential sentence, phrasal construction semantic meaning lexical words, signs morphological elements of pronunciation phonological elements of pronunciation
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- 12. noun rb verbnoun ve b noun r noun ve noun noun …sentence + sentence + sentence…
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- 14. Scholarly research data and national EIPA assessment results:
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- 17. Discourse mapping helps signersidentify cohesion structures in a signed text.
- 18. Discourse mapping helps interpreterscognitively map (chunk, peg, link, and monitor) message in a given text.
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- 20. By creating avisual representation of how native signers organize and incorporate message into language.
- 21. idea idea idea message idea idea
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- 25. What are someASL manual and nonmanual transitional behaviors?
- 26. blinks and eyegaze extendedhold of signs head nod lexemes conjunctionals: FINISH, WRONG, FRUSTRATE, HAPPEN NEXT DOWN-HIERARCHY or SIDE-HIERARCHY THEN, AND
- 27. The Snowmobile Story (00:10,00:21, 00:23, 00:38, 00:43, etc.)
- 28. What are someASL manual and nonmanual relational behaviors?
- 29. contrastive structure spatial placement topicalmarking (eyebrow raising) eyegaze lexemes: classifiers CONNECT-TO demonstrative pronouns (THAT)
- 30. A Little BitAt A Time (00:19, 00:38, 00:47, 00:51, 01:16, etc.)
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- 32. Chunking, pegging, linking,and self- monitoring message in a text.
- 33. Peg idea (What are these ideas?) idea Chunk idea (These ideas message relate.) idea Link (How do these idea ideas relate with others?) Self-monitor (Where am I/is this message or sentence going?)
- 34. How does thishappen?
- 35. The ability to restructureinformation in the mind is largely dependent on language ability.
- 36. The goal, then,is to replicate logical language organization in interpretative work.
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- 38. 1. Watch textfor comprehension.
- 39. 2. Watch textfor specific linguistic features:
- 40. nominal and pronominal information
- 41. verbal and adverbial information
- 42. 3. Watch textto confirm observations in #2, make visual representation, and make notes:
- 43. 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)
- 46. 4. Discuss observations in small groups confirm comprehension (“I saw X..."), discuss specific features, identify questions for the group)
- 47. 4a. Repeat foreach linguistic feature.
- 48. 5. Watch textagain
- 49. 6. Based oncreated visual representations, retell the text in small groups.
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- 51. “A Little BitAt A Time”
- 52. Do try thisat home.
- 53. References Witter-Merrithew, A. (2006).Discourse Mapping for Sign Language Interpreters (workshop notes, n.p.).
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