Zusammenfassung der Ressource
TRANSITION MARKERS
- By: Brittany Kearfott 13 November 2016
- Importance of Transition Markers
- keeps relationship between
the topic and subsequent
comments in mind
- When topic changes, the
comments thereafter are
related to the new topic
- Used to signal change
- Well
- Happen
- Inform You
- Know-That
- Anyway
- Understand
- Fine
- Finish
- Now
- unaware of how
information connects
without markers
- Helps guide
- How sentences relate
and how one comment
is connected to another
- Help know when a
particular topic ends
and a new one begin
- Issues an interpreter
should consider
- How does the
current point or topic
relate to the previous
point or topic?
- Is the information
being presented a
comparison, a
contrast, an example,
a segue, or an aside?
- What transition
word(s) would
clarify the
relationship?
- Expressions on face
and pauses show to
the topic began is
marked
- Transition Markers in ASL
- A problem arises when
a transition marker is
not recognized correctly
- Causing information to remain
connected to the previous topic
- ANYWAY can be
interpreted into english
as either a clear ending
of the previous sentence
or as a pause before "so"
- INFORM-YOU,coupled
with signer leaning to
the side
- signals an aside
in the narrative
- More informal
like BTW
- KNOW-THAT used as an
introduction to new topic
- Topic ended
- ANYWAY, PUSH-ASIDE, NEXT
- pause, slight head nod,
clasp hands, drop head
- In English they pause to
indicate topic change
- Conjunctions
- Words that link words,
phrases, caluses,
sentences, or paragraphs.
- WRONG
- without warning
- suddenly
- HAPPEN
- Relationship between
sentence and clauses
- When
- Just so happened that
- HIT
- turned out that
- Unexpectedly
- By surprise
- unanticipated
- FRUSTRAE
- used after a statement of something
the signer had hoped to be, do, or
get, but later was prevented
- Disappointed
- Annoyed
- Saddened
- English
- Subordinate
- Coordinate
- The Word OK
- English
- To keep the
conversation going
- ASL
- Another sign
- Non-manual Signal
- Concept or function of the word
- Show understanding of
what was said previously
- English
- can't do anything with the
information but understands it
- ASL
- May use fine or just nod head
- Affirmative answer to a question
- English
- means yes
- ASL
- YES, SURE, OK
- Used as a response to what
was said by the other person
before taking own turn
- English
- Allows the listener to jump
in and become the speaker
- ASL
- Would use more
vigorous head nod
- Show confirmation
and agreement
- ASL: GOOD
- Pre-closings and closings
of a conversation
- English
- Increase of word
- closure of topic, end of phone
call, interactive situations
- ASL
- FINSIH
- An attempt to gain the floor,
or to get or keep the floor
- ASL
- Raise a hand, palm out, or begin
nodding more, body moving forward
- Group leader in order to close
proceedings or to finish one topic
before moving on
- ASL
- ANYHOW, NOW, NEXT with slight
head nod, use push away to the side