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Cecelia Smith Date: Thu Aug 20, 1998 5:32 pm Subject: hello world | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hi there; I am Cecelia Smith, and have been away from the list most of the summer. I am a graduate student in Linguistics at Gallaudet University. Some of you may remember that I was attempting to use Sign Writing as a semester project last year... however once I asked for information from the list, I fell silent. That was due primarily to the fact that I was unable to gather an adequate amount of data to convince my instructor that SignWriting was an appropriate topic for a Masters degree student...at this point in time. She did acknowledge that the current project will undoubtedly produce enough research level data for a "future" study at my level, but I definately got squashed on my project. So... I have to admit I've been a bit embarassed and haven't written to the list... however, I refuse to knuckle under completely. I have been practicing SW during the summer and I have every intention of using it in papers in the next two years as the documentation portion of any sign analysis that I do. My support for this is the fact that SW has been used at international conventions on sign language research, and is currently in use at the Salk Institute... I have already been told that I will need to use the university accepted system as well, but I am stubborn. I plan to use both. That's me. I hope this list continues to be as helpful and supportive as it has up through this point. See you all on line. Cecelia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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