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Classifiers

Classifiers. Basic Description / Beginning Storytelling. Telling Simple Stories Using Classifiers. (SW Group 1 Handshapes). Handshape or Classifier? Classifier – a sign that represents classes of objects.

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Classifiers

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  1. Classifiers Basic Description / Beginning Storytelling

  2. Telling Simple Stories Using Classifiers (SW Group 1 Handshapes)

  3. Handshape or Classifier?Classifier – a sign that represents classes of objects Handshapes are one of the five fundamental building blocks of a sign: Handshape, movement, location, orientation, and nonmanual markers. Non-manual markers include those aspects of body language that do not involve the hands such as shoulder movements, head tilts, and facial expressions.  The handshape is literally the shape in which we form our hand during the production of a sign. (Remember the acronym HOLME?) The movement or shape of certain signs can be modified in such a way as to include information about a referent's type, size, shape, movement, or extent.  Those signs which have this ability are "classifiers."It might be more accurate to call them "potential classifiers" since whether or not these "potential classifiers" become actual classifiers depends on how they are used in context. Think of classifiers as a type of pronoun. You have to identify your pronoun before you can use it. Also you have to use it in context. I cant just start a conversation with you by signing, "HE WALK." I have to set up some sort of situation or context, then I spell F-R-E-D, and then point to the right then form the INDEX-finger-classifier (or "Classifier 1" also shown as CL:1)  and move it to the left. Unit 5 Eyes on ASL #11 from Bill Vicar’s site: http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/classifiers.htm

  4. Show how a person moves, stick or pencil (position), legs, path of flight CL:1

  5. Pencil or Stick (position) CL:1-4

  6. Describe Using Classifiers, Facial Expression and Signs

  7. Little Classifier stories Handshapes:

  8. Classifiers – Cartoons Draw what you think the instructor signed. Use stick figures. Show how the people are positioned. • Cliffhanger • Bobbing • Catty 4. Popeye 5. Old Ninja 6. Double Dutch 7. Spidey

  9. Cliffhanger

  10. Bobbing

  11. Catty

  12. Popeye

  13. Double Dutch

  14. Old Ninja

  15. Spidey

  16. SignWrite It! Now use SignWriting to write one of the classifiers that the instructor used in each story to describe the cartoon. When you are done, practice signing each story yourself

  17. Classifiers and Handshape Groups Using Basic Handshapes to Tell Stories

  18. Gender-Related Signs Man Woman Boy Girl

  19. To go, to meet, stick or pencil (position), path of flight CL:1

  20. To dance, to look at, to ride a horse • CL: ^, A person’s legs or eyes

  21. Bus, Car, Motorcycle, Boat; Accident Vehicle movement CL: 3

  22. To line up, picket fence, zebra stripes, rainbow • CL: 4

  23. Pencil or Stick (position) CL:1-4

  24. Walk (feet), Room, Door, Boat, Wall CL:B (group 4 & 5)

  25. SignWrite It, Then Tell It! Make up 2 very brief classifier stories using CL from groups 1 – 5. Draw little cartoons of your stories. Use SignWriting to identify the handshapes of the classifiers next to your stories. Tell one of your stories to a group.

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