1st
L (F–10) 7-8
Understanding
Systems of language
- Elaboration 2
- noticing that meaning is created in Auslan from fully-lexical signs,
partly-lexical signs and non-lexical CA and gesture
- recognising that signers can set up referents in the signing space as if they
are part of that space (character space, for example, using a bC handshape (use
of non-dominant hand) to indicate putting a glass on a table) or as if they are
outside it (observer, for example, using 5claw in two locations to represent two
houses)
- recognising that in character space, signers can use locations for present
referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in
space
- recognising that signers can give information about how a verb happens over
time by changing the movement, for example, signing WATCH versus WATCH
-for-a-long-time, or with lexical signs such as WATCH AGAIN++
- recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly
regardless of their original location
- categorising the type of depicting sign being used by a signer
- distinguishing between directional and locational indicating verbs
- observing examples of CA in an Auslan text and discussing how it was marked