Where’s Waldo?: Spatial Mapping for Educational Interpreters

1. Where’s Waldo?: Spatial Mapping for Educational Interpreters January 22, 2011 Carol Tipton, Ed.D.

2. Workshop Objectives • Define spatial mapping • Describe and demonstrate how spatial mapping is tied to discourse cohesion • List and define the functions of spatial mapping • List and define the forms of spatial mapping • Demonstrate the 7 ways reference is accomplished using spatial mapping • Describe and demonstrate comparative spatial mapping • Describe and demonstrate constructed action/dialogue spatial mapping

3. What is spatial mapping? • The overall use of space. • Using space to hold a message together.

4. Functions of Spatial Mapping Reference Prosody

5. Referential Spatial MappingTechniques • Pointing to a location with index finger, honorific handshape, or thumb • Physically stepping into a specific space • Pointing to the space and articulating a related sign either in unmarked space or within marked space • Rotating torso and/or head toward the space • Directing eyegaze at the space • Switching hands to articulate the sign near the established space • Using indicating, directional, verbs

6. Types of Referential Spatial Maps • Comparative • Performative • Temporal • Perspective

7. Performative Spatial Mapping of Reported Speech • Kevin said his father always wanted to publish a novel. • Pam said that when they first got married her husband would open doors for her and call her every day at work. • I told my husband that it was raining too hard to play golf, that he’d get sick. He said he didn’t care and went anyway.

8. Reported Speech Continued • A woman, sounding desperate, pleaded that she couldn’t wake her husband. • She explained to investigators that she had told her husband just a few days before that she was moving out. She said he had gotten angry, then drunk, and that very day had taken some of her old prescription drugs to help him sleep. • Kim told her brother that the man had come into the bank and taken $12,900 from her cash drawer before fleeing.

9. Reported Speech Final • Erin Miller reported that even though her son was in a safety seat at the time of the crash, he suffered a skull fracture from a loose cell phone in the car. • On May 28, 1973, Jacobson received a telephone call from an old Kennedy friend, Chuck Spalding, saying it was extremely important that he see him. • Jackie asked what I would say if the White House came up during the medical board hearings. I assured her there was no reason for concern.

10. Prosodic Spatial Mapping Techniques • Pointing the body, torso or head (using eyegaze) toward an area • Articulating signs within a certain space and shifting to another area in the next utterance • Within utterances, using a different location for each sign

11. Types of Prosodic Spatial Mapping • Marking the start and end of an utterance • Adding emphasis with utterances • Creating rhyme or rhythm • Separating larger chunks or structures