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Don & Theresa G Date: Fri Feb 11, 2000 8:47 pm Subject: Re: Writing Hearing Person's Gestures | ||||||||
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----- Original Message ----- From: Valerie Sutton > So in other words, yes...SignWriting could be applied to writing the > body language that accompanies spoken languages, but the question > is...who would want it? smile... Funny you should ask. :-) During my doctoral study, I took a class in the Anthropology department, and one project the students had was to transcribe a segment of a Jenny Jones episode (maybe it was the whole show?) Anyway, being Deaf, I couldn't transcribe the speech. So what I decided to do, after getting some transcriptions from other people, was to correlate the gestures the panelists used with what they said (I was looking at the indexicality and iconicity of their gestures). For example, I remember one woman talking about looking in her rear view mirror, and as she was thinking or speaking of the mirror, she pointed to the space where a mirror would be if she were sitting in the car. I believe I used Stokoe Notation for my transcription, but Sign Writing probably would have worked just as well (maybe better) for it. --Don Grushkin | ||||||||
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