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Content description VCASFU084

Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Understand the perceptual and articulatory reasons for the structure of signs, and analyse how iconicity can be used to create metaphors in Auslan and critically evaluate video annotation software as a means of transcribing and analysing Auslan
Elaborations
  1. understanding that the elements of a sign can be arbitrary (for example, the handshape or movement of the sign WHY), or meaningful, such as the movement and the handshape in the sign GIVE
  2. exploring perceptual and articulatory reasons why some handshapes are more common than others
  3. beginning to identify and describe metaphorical iconicity, for example, LOVE, AVOID/RESIST, and discussing how it relates to metaphors in English, for example the ‘time as space’ metaphor in both languages
  4. applying knowledge of iconicity in signed languages, for example how the path movement of a verb can be a metaphor for the timing of an action, for example, PRO1 WAIT-for-a-long-time PRO2, observing that English can do the same with changes to the length of phonemes, for example, I screeeeeeaaaaaamed!
  5. using annotation software such as ELAN as a tool to transcribe and analyse signed languages
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VCASFU084
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