Targeted Construction Storyboard: Junior Needs A Bath

“Junior Needs a Bath” is a storyboard to be used in targeted production tasks in linguistic fieldwork, see Burton & Mathewson (2015) for details concerning the methodology. The dataset consists of a pdf with the image panels as well as a plain-text file with the script.

[Strang Burton & Lisa Matthewson (2015), "Targeted Construction Storyboards in Semantic Fieldwork," in M. Ryan Bochnak & Lisa Matthewson (eds.), Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 135-156.]

"Junior Needs a Bath"

DESCRIPTION: Junior's mother wants to give him a bath. But where is he hiding? TAGS: modality, epistemic possibility, epistemic necessity

CREATED BY: Thera Marie Crane

ILLUSTRATED BY: Matilda Carbo

ADAPTED FROM: Mathew Rolka & Seth Cable (2014), "Tom and Mittens" 
[Matthew Rolka & Seth Cable (2014). Tom and Mittens. Totem Field Storyboards . Retrieved from totemfieldstoryboards.org on Feb 14, 2024.]

The format of this introduction is copied directly from zenodo.org (by Vera Hohaus)

The pdf can be modified and (for example) names can be adapted for use in different cultural contexts. Please cite the original version when using or adapting.

The creation of this storyboard was financed by the Finnish Research Council grant "Accommodating Linguistic Diversity in Conversation: Modal Expressions and Multilingualism in South Africa“.