Identifying discourse markers and examples of spatial structuring in Creative Advocacy Through Visual Narrative by Melissa Malzkuhn

Example from 2:46-2:54: Melissa uses her non-dominant hand to mark herself as a child on her left side and then talks about herself as a PhD student and contrasts her experiences with protest… marking those two different spaces with both her body shifting and use of dominant & non-dominant hands.

Example from 3:34-3:37: Melissa sets up the space with her index fingers. Her non-dominant hand uses its index finger by the front of chest while her other hand is using index finger to indicate ASL concept of FAR AWAY re: ITALY.

Example from 3:48-3:55: Melissa uses two examples of spatial structuring in this 7 second excerpt to indicate two concepts of RIOT (03:50-:03-52) and ALL OVER (03:55).

Example from 4:29-4:32: Melissa sets up the windows for the embassy and then shows people moving about in the space beyond the windows to establish distance between embassy employees and the protestors.

Example from 7:57-8:05: Melissa sets up the space to illustrate an overarching idea of advocacy as confrontation and agitation to other kinds of advocacy — by setting up the space by her side first to explain the agitation then from that side she rotates her body while shifting her hands to sign WIDE-RANGE simultaneously to her another side to express the concept of creative ways to dissent.

Example from 8:40-8:45: Melissa uses her body to rotate sightly to mark the clause in ASL sentences – English equivalent of comma “,” when she is expressing the relationship between knowledge and science in her experience.