Faculty and Staff Sign Language Program - Course Details

ASL Role Shifting#840

Description

    Role shifting is how ASL narratives show who is saying what to whom. Strategies taught will include indexing, eye gaze, body shifts, character affect, and using the narrator’s visual imaging to keep track of characters. This course will provide an overview of role shifting and will provide instruction, demonstration and practice in its use. Participants will progress from briefer and more prescribed exchanges to lengthier and self-generated exchanges, and from large body shifts and movements to more subtle and flexible indications of character/character and narrator/character shifts. Class meets for two hours a week for nine weeks.

Prerequisites

    None

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