Targeted Construction Storyboard: Junior's Walk

“Junior's Walk” 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's Walk"

DESCRIPTION: Junior and his mother go to visit his grandmother. But Junior has a lot of needs on the way.

TAGS: modality, negation, circumstantial possibility, participant-internal necessity

CREATED BY: Thera Marie Crane

ILLUSTRATED BY: Matilda Carbo

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“.

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

 

::Junior’s Walk::
1.    Junior and his mother Rejoice are walking to visit Junior’s grandmother.
2.    Junior says: I have to pee! 
3.    Rejoice says: You can’t pee here. 
4.    Rejoice says: You’re not allowed to pee on the street. 
5.    Rejoice says: You can pee at grandma’s house. 
6.    Junior says: I’m hungry. 
7.    Junior says: I need to eat! 
8.    Rejoice says: You can’t eat
9.    Rejoice says: We didn’t bring any food with us. 
10.    Rejoice says: You can eat at grandma’s house. 
11.    Junior says: I’m tired. 
12.    Junior says: I need to rest! 
13.    Rejoice says: You can’t rest.
14.    Rejoice says:  We’ll be late. 
15.    Rejoice says: You can rest at grandma’s house. 
16.    Rejoice and Junior get to grandma’s house.
17.    They knock on the door.
18.    There’s no answer. 
19.    A neighbour looks over the fence.
20.    Rejoice and Junior ask: Where’s grandma?
21.    The neighbor says: She’s not here. She went to visit you!
22.    Rejoice says: Oh no! Now we have to walk back home! 
23.    Junior says: I’m thirsty. 
24.    Junior says: I need to drink! 
25.    Rejoice says: You need to be quiet and walk!