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Understanding Descriptors In Auslan

Lee Bilby

This new book uses the topics People and Animals to enhance descriptive communication in Auslan

It covers advanced concepts including:

  • Emphasis, Extent, Exaggeration, Enactment and Enthusiasm to modify a signs meaning
  • The role of facial expressions and the body
  • The return morph
  • Repetition for emphasis
  • Negative signs
  • Finger spelling and naming

It also has an over 400 sign dictionary including descriptor chapters specific to Animals and people.

  • Animals
    • Farm Animals
    • Pets
    • Zoo Animals
  • Describing Animals
    • Skin Type
    • Size
    • About their body
    • Horns & Tusks
    • Food (what do they eat?)
    • Home (Where do they live?)
    • How do they move?
    • About the animal (nature/personality/ability)
  • Colours
  • Describing People
    • Describing hair
    • Describing faces
    • Describing bodies
    • Clothes
    • Occupations
  • Naming People & Places
    • People and Place names (includes finger spelling)
    • Australian cities and places
    • Countries

It is complemented with a number of videos examples and practice videos online

Class set available

Set of 10 for $35 per book
Set of 30 for $30 per book

Publisher
Bilby Publishing
Year
2023
ISBN
978-1-91391-91-0
Pages
78

Index

339 signs in index

abattoir
about
act
Adelaide
adult
Africa
America
animal
antelope
antlers
architect
area
arm
Asia
Australia
Austria
baby
baker
bald
beach
bear
beard
big
bird
bite
black
blind
blonde
blue
body
boy
bricklayer
Brisbane
Britain
brown
budgerigar
builder
Bulgaria
bull
bumpy
burrow
butcher
butterfly
camel
Canada
Canberra
car salesman
Cat
cheeky
cheetah
chef
chicken
child
childcare
Chile
china
city
claws
clean
cleaner
climb
clothes
clown
coach
coat
cochlear
cockatoo
colour
country
cow
crocodile
curly
curly horns
curly tail
curved horns
cute
dancer
danger
dark
deer
Denmark
dentist
dig
dirty
doctor
dog
donkey
draftsman
dress
drive
dry
duck
ear
earring
eat
echidna
Egypt
elephant
emu
England
Europe
eye
eyebrow
face
farmer
fat
feather
firefighter
fish
flesh
flower
fly
foot
forest
fox
France
friend
fright
frog
fruit
funny
fur
gentle
Germany
giraffe
girl
glasses
goat
gold
goose
gorilla
grass
grassland
Greece
green
grey
guinea pig
hair
hair bun
hairy
hand
hat
hearing-aid
heavy
hippopotamus
Hobart
hole
horse
house
how
hungry
ice
India
information
interpreter
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
jacket
Japan
judge
jump
jumper
jungle
kangaroo
kiwi
koala
kookaburra
lady
lazy
leaf
leg
librarian
light
lightweight
lion
little horns
live
lizard
long hair
long horns
lots
magic
man
many
maroon
mauve
meat
Melbourne
monarch
monkey
mountain
mouse
moustache
move
name
nest
New Zealand
noise
Norway
nose
nose ring
nurse
odour
old
orange
overalls
owl
painter
panther
pants
paramedic
parrot
penguin
people
Perth
pet
pharmacist
photographer
pig
pink
pirate
plait
platypus
poison
police
pond
Portugal
pregnant
priest
purple
quick
quiet
rabbit
rainbow
red
rhinoceros
river
sailor
sand
Santa
scarf
science
Scotland
sea
seal
seamstress
seed
shark
sharp
sheep
shell
shirt
shoe
short hair
shorts
shrub
silver
sing
singlet
skirt
sleep
slow
small
snake
snout
snow
soft
spotty
straight hair
stripy
strong
surgeon
swim
Switzerland
Sydney
tail
tall
teacher
teeth
thick
thin
tiger
tiny
tired
tongue
tortoise
town
tractor
trousers
Tshirt
Turkey
tusks
typewriter
uniform
vet
wet
what
where
whiskers
white
wings
wolf
wool
work
world
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