Recounts a series of events ordered more or less chronologically
The texts on this page are recountings of personal experiences of canoe trips in the Boundary Waters. To see the English transcript and ASL outline, use the menu at left.
English Narrative
Eric’s story is of trying to avoid a long portage by taking a canoe upstream on the Basswood river. This ordeal is undertaken with his wife, Amy, on her birthday.
This length of this text is 7:23.
ASL Narrative
Jenny’s story is of the first time she brought her two children on an extended trip into the Boundary Waters where they moved camp each day, instead of just staying in the same place the entire time.
This length of this text is 6:27.
Starter question: Using the transcript and outlines as guides, go through the texts and notice where digressions and asides occur, that is, where background information is given that breaks away from the actual flow of events. What features of lan- guage mark when the speakers go off and return to the point?
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