CHAPTER 9:The Challenge Of Mediating ASL & English Flashcards
prosody
rhythm of speech with pauses and phraseology, as well as certain auditory intonation patterns - to help listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will say next
expansions
1) contrasting
2) faceting
3) reiterating
4) role-shifting/incorporation of 3D information
5) noun-listing/examples
6) couching/ nesting
7) describe then do
faceting
refers to any one of the several parts or possible aspects of something
couching/nesting
provide information in an introductory expansion or “set up” to ensure the listener has the schema or frame required to understand the upcoming discourse
ASL modality
visual/spatial modality fosters use of spatial referencing and restricts use of functional elements - utterances made up primarily of content elements
functional elements
serve as a type of “auditory lubrication” fostering comprehension by means of cohesion and transition; include such things as articles (a, the, an) prepositions (on, for, with, to), and conjunctions (and, but, however)
visual lubrication
utterances composed primarily of content elements which supply substance and meaning; restricted use of most functional elements, including articles, interjections, expletives and conjunctions; visual incorporation of the auxiliary verb (to be); spatial referencing - using the space around a signer to metaphorically establish a person or place as a referent
indirect/implicit conveyance
frequent combinations of verbs and prepositions producing new lexical items with meanings different than that of the individual words; use of generic terms to represent a wide range of semantic meanings; use of pronouns that lack a specific referent; use of compact lexical items in which one term carries descriptive semantic meaning
time/tense markers
techniques to communicate the concept of past, present, and future
SASSes
size and shape specifiers
