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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Apr 27, 2001 7:07 pm Subject: Re: dialogue - roleplay | |
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Stefan Woehrmann wrote: >Problem #1: Person A touches the shoulder - but in our document the contact >star is located at "no - body " he - nevertheless you could understand our >intention.... SignWriting List April 27, 2001 Yes...tapping the person on the shoulder (or a pretend one) is quite common in roleplaying. Even the "Advanced Goldilocks in ASL" story we published has the tapping of the shoulder in several places, when Mama Bear asks Baby Bear and Papa Bear to come to eat their dinner, she taps them on the shoulder...you do not need a touching contact star to make that clear, since the very small tense movements towards the diagonal is pretty obvious...you could add tension to it...but it is not mandatory. The most important thing is eyegaze in this case. SignWriting uses eyegaze to establish location of the signers. So the moment you change eyegaze, you know someone has moved. So I am waiting for you to respond to my second diagram in which I discussed Line 2...Once we establish eyegaze and location of the two signers, then we can establish the directionality of the arrow. Once that is solved, then I will move on to Person B. I believe you already figured out, Stefan, that Receptive is best for Person B....but it is handled in a special way, when writing roleplaying in SignWriting....or Expressive can be chosen too, but it has to be clear how each person is relating to each other. I love writing two or more signers conversing...one of my favorites! (along with writing Group Dances in DanceWriting ;-) -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/sw-l/ To post a message to the SW List: |
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