Depiction, What is It?

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Includes a Live Web Event on 05/29/2024 at 6:00 PM (EDT)

RID HQ is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 0.3 PS CEUs at the little/none Content Knowledge Level. The target audience: sign language learners and interpreters, novice and seasoned professionals

Have you ever been told to show more and tell less? Or that your use of space is amazing? Or has anyone asked you what “discourse mapping” is? Are there differences between a classifier and an depicting verb? All these questions are related to depiction. Depiction in linguistics is a cognitive phenomena that has observable manifestations that surround the body. However, the term depiction has an unspecialized colloquial definition in the field of interpreting that can lead to an oversimplified thinking about it and its cognitive underpinnings.

In this workshop, I will distinguish what depiction is for sign languages and spoken languages and provide a cursory introduction to the features that are considered depictive. We will also explore the notion of what depiction actually “shows” and some of the cognitive operations that underpin it.

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Define and provide one example of a "plain sign",

2. Define and provide one example of a "depictive sign",

3. Define the cognitive linguistic term "Schematic Imagery",

4. Demonstrate at least 3 different depictive features,

5. Explain how Iconic signs can have their depictive component foregrounded or backgrounded, leaving the latter an iconic item that does not depict, and

6. Explain and provide one example of why the term "showing" obscures the cognitive operations that depiction uses.

Nondiscrimination Policy: RID promotes a learning environment of mutual respect and free from bias and discrimination.

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Language of Presentation: ASL with no English interpretation

*To submit a reasonable accommodation request, please email webinars@rid.org no later than Friday, May 17th, 2024.*

RID HQ is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 0.3 PS CEUs at the little/none Content Knowledge Level.

Target Audience: sign language learners and interpreters, novice and seasoned professionals

Wink

Wink, MA, MBA, NIC Master

Wink, MA, MBA, NIC Master, enjoys researching and creating various workshops that focus on skill building through deliberate practice, which he wrote about in the RID Views, Winter 2012 issue. Presenting workshops the last fifteen years at national conferences (NAD, RID, Silent Weekend) regional conferences (RID I, II, III, IV, V), state conferences, and local workshops across the nation has given Wink experiences to enhance applications for interpreters of all levels. Wink is widely noted for the comfortable atmosphere he creates and the passion he exudes. Currently Wink travels full time performing, presenting workshops, and managing Winkshop, Inc, through which he has developed a dozen training materials. Wink currently is working on his PhD in linguistics from Gallaudet University where he investigates the embodied motivations of imagery in depiction.