1st
L (Yr 7 Entry) 9-10
Understanding
Systems of language
- Elaboration 3
- noticing that sometimes Auslan signers have information about how a verb
happens through NMFs not separate signs (for example WRITE-carelessly)
- distinguishing between the citation form of a sign and the adverbial NMF
overlaid and what meaning each part carries, for example: MAN-SPRINT (base
form), MAN SPRINT-fast (manner added)
- understanding that, in terms of meaning, a basic clause represents: a
happening or a state (verb), who or what is involved (noun or nouns) and the
surrounding circumstances (adverb or adverbs)
- noticing that clauses can be made more vivid by integrating CA or DSs to show
with body or hands or by showing adverbial or adjectival meanings
- recognising how conjunctions such as PLUS, IF or BUT are used to join clauses
and create cohesion
- recognising that the element of a clause that a signer wants to focus on most
in Auslan is sometimes moved to be signed first and that this process of
topicalisation involves particular NMFs
- recognising that signers may include both linguistic and gestural elements in
a clause, that is, signers can tell, show or do both in a composite utterance
- realising that in many clauses signers ‘tell’ with lexical signs at the same
time as ‘show’ with DS, CA and other gestural elements