Location
Nasuua Community College
CCB Building, Room 252
One Education Drive
Garden City, NY
Description
One of the most common discourse features in ASL is constructed dialogue. Often referred to as Character Role Shifting, this form of discourse can be challenging for interpreters to recognize and render accurately in spoken English due to its complex use of space and subtle movements of the eyes and body.
This workshop is a shorter, conference-length version of Shift Happens: Recognizing ASL Performatives, and will focus specifically on principles of constructed dialogues, steps to recognize and produce constructed dialogues in ASL texts, video examples of ASL constructed dialogues in context for analysis and interpreting practice.
While not a quick-fix workshop, this session will enable interpreters at all levels to look at their work in a new, more effective way. Always know who’s saying what to whom!
Topics we will cover
- Recognize differing constructed dialogue strategies in English and ASL
- Identify key principles behind constructed dialogues
- Recognize and produce constructed dialogues in ASL texts
- Analyze dialogues in ASL to determine equivalency in spoken English
- Increase competence & confidence interpreting constructed dialogues into spoken English
3½-hour workshop:
9:00-12:30 PM
0.35 CEUs in the Professional Studies category requiring some content pre-knowledge.
Registration
For more information and registration, please visit the Long Island RID website