2nd 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 use locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space

- recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly regardless of their original location

- distinguishing between directional and locational indicating verbs

- recognising that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of DS, for example:

entity DSs: the handshape is an object or person, and the movement is the movement or location of that object or person
handling DSs: the handshape represents a person’s hands touching or moving another object, and the movement shows how the hands move
SASS DSs: the handshape and movement outline the shape or size of something

- observing instances of CA in a text and discussing how it was marked