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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Mar 8, 2000 3:07 pm Subject: Order of Reading Movement | |||||
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QUESTION: Is there a special arrow that doesn´t mean moving from here to there but just helping to read the order of movements? ----------------------------- SignWriting List March 8, 2000 Hello everyone - And thanks Stefan for the above question, that was hidden inside one of your adorable "spider gymnastics" messages.... Here are the rules on reading the movement in signs: 1. If there are Movement Arrows in the sign, then you read the sign starting at the stem of the arrow and the sign then moves in the direction of the arrow. This means that if a Movement Arrow is pointing up, then the sign starts low, and ends high. But if the Movement Arrow were pointing down, then the movement starts high and finishes low. 2. If the Movement Arrows are in clusters or groups, or if they are "combined arrows", where many arrows are blended to become one symbol, then the rule is: Read the cluster of Movment Symbols from: 1. Center to Out or 2. Top to Bottom. 3. If there are no Movement Arrows in the sign, but smaller symbols are used to show small movement, such as Finger Movement, or Push-Tension, then again the rule is: Read the small movements from: 1. Center to Out or 2. Top to Bottom. So in the example of the miming of a spider reflected in a mirror, which Charles Butler wrote (which was not necessarily a sign, but was a part of a "mime-like" storytelling sequence)....you read the sign or gesture from Top to Bottom: | |||||
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