Thursday, 17 July 2014
Enactment
Enactment entails becoming the entity which the signing person is describing. For example, this may be through facial expressions, mimicking behaviours or demonstrating actions.
Pointing Signs
Pointing signs are made with an extended index finger, whist the other fingers and thumb are tucked into a fist. This can be used to refer to self, another person, an object, entity or location.
Johnston, T. (2014) Auslan Corpus Annotation Guidelines. Retrieved
from http://media.auslan.org.au/attachments/Johnston_AuslanCorpusAnnotationGuidelines_14June2014.pdf
Expression or Non-Manual Features
Non-manual features (NMF) groups together a wide range of possible expressive mechanisms.These may include movements of the eyes,head and body,facial expression,mouthing and mouth gestures. These are used to help contextualise lexical signs and the other aspects of visual communication.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Movement
Movement refers to the way the hand(s) move through space. For example, this may be in a tapping, circular or swift motion.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Changing the movement of a handshape can change the meaning of the sign.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Changing the movement of a handshape can change the meaning of the sign.
Location
Location refers to the position of the hand in the signing space. For example, this may be near the face, upper body or in a neutral space in front of the body.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Changing the location of the handshape can change the meaning of the sign.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Changing the location of the handshape can change the meaning of the sign.
Orientation
Orientation refers to the direction of the palm and fingers. For example, these may be facing upwards, downwards, towards or away from the body.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Changing the orientation can change the meaning of the sign.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Changing the orientation can change the meaning of the sign.
Handshape
At present, there are sixty-two handshapes listed in the Auslan dictionary, however only thirty-seven are the core handshapes used, with the remaining twenty-seven seen as non-significant variations of these.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Changes to handshape can alter the meaning of a sign.
Changes to handshape can alter the meaning of a sign.
Depicting Signs
As a general rule, depicting signs do not have a sensible meaning which can be listed in a dictionary because their meaning is either too general or too narrow and context specific.
Depicting signs may be used to refer to the location, movement, displacement, size, shape or handling of an entity (Johnston, 2014).
Johnston, T. (2014) Auslan Corpus Annotation Guidelines. Retrieved from http://media.auslan.org.au/attachments/Johnston_AuslanCorpusAnnotationGuidelines_14June2014.pdf
SASS - Size and Shape Specifier
Outline an object’s shape and size. There are three types:
Entity
Entity represents the location and movement of people, animals or objects. A vertical pointed index finger represents humans, a horizontal pointed index finger for animals and a flat hand shape for transport. Additional fingers may be extended to specify the number of entities. These hand shapes my show the path or manner of movement of the entity. Entity hand shapes can be used simultaneously to describe the relative locations and movements of two (or more) separate things.
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Depicting signs may be used to refer to the location, movement, displacement, size, shape or handling of an entity (Johnston, 2014).
Johnston, T. (2014) Auslan Corpus Annotation Guidelines. Retrieved from http://media.auslan.org.au/attachments/Johnston_AuslanCorpusAnnotationGuidelines_14June2014.pdf
SASS - Size and Shape Specifier
Outline an object’s shape and size. There are three types:
- Surface (eg: a flat hand describing a winding road)
- Depth and width (eg: two cupped hands showing the size of a tree-trunk)
- Perimeter-shape(eg: pointing fingers tracing an outline of an object's external shape)
Entity
Entity represents the location and movement of people, animals or objects. A vertical pointed index finger represents humans, a horizontal pointed index finger for animals and a flat hand shape for transport. Additional fingers may be extended to specify the number of entities. These hand shapes my show the path or manner of movement of the entity. Entity hand shapes can be used simultaneously to describe the relative locations and movements of two (or more) separate things.
Handling
Imitate the hands interacting with an object. There are three types:
- Holding (eg: holding a cup)
- Touch (eg: wiggling fingers typing)
- Instrumental (eg: fingers representing cutting with scissors)
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Numbers 1-20
To signify age, numbers originate from the nose, like the number 20 in this video, as opposed to a more neutral space for ordinary numbers.
The Alphabet
Signs for each letter of the alphabet allow for words to be finger spelled, which is particularly valuable for names or words without an equivalent sign in Auslan ("Insights into Auslan", 2010)
Insights into Auslan. (2010). Retrieved from http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf.
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