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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Dec 28, 2001 6:32 am Subject: Re: ZURICH: Facial Expressions | |
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SignWriting List December 27, 2001 ZURICH project wrote: >>>In our Zurich project, we are at this point making SignWriting >>>notations of mouth gestures but not of mouthings. So I guess part >>>of my concern in my previous email was that for non-native >>>signers, it might be difficult to distinguish between what's a >>>mouthing and what's a mouth gesture in a foreign sign language >>>(and hence, what needs to be notated and what not). VAL's ANSWER: Well of course, you are right, if the goal is to do linguistic analysis, that may be true...And I certainly could not make such decisions myself, since I do not know the language... I guess it all depends on the purpose of your document...If Deaf children and adults read the story of Noah in German-Swiss Sign Language, directly, without the translation of another language, as true readers in a language do...then they probably won't stop and say to themselves "Is that a mouth gesture or mouthing?". More likely, a Deaf child will want to know the end of the story about Noah...I bet they will read the signs real fast, to find out the ending! So from my experience anyway, facial expressions give the feeling of the signing, without "getting in the way". They are pleasant and helpful, without being hard to read. Most Deaf people read the facial expressions faster than anything else...If the person mouths, they will read it as it looks. If the person does a mouth gesture, they will read that too...just as they would if they were in a real conversation with someone... -- 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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