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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed May 19, 1999 6:27 pm Subject: Re: Researching... | |
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Leslie Wallace wrote: >2. Will sign writing effect/change hand signing in any way? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don't think so, and I hope not. SignWriting is a way to write any body movement. Whatever people sign, we can write. Our purpose is not to change how people sign. Instead we want to preserve the language "as it is signed". I suppose you can argue that as a writing system becomes established, there is some influence from the writing of the language, onto the speaking of that language. But that is pretty minimal, I would suspect. For example, there may be some new terminology incorporated into the vocabulary of signing - for example - in Spain, recently, a new "name sign" developed in Madrid for the term "SignWriting". So there are some new terms "associated with writing signed languages". Other than that, I cannot think of ways that SignWriting could change signing itself. Can anyone? Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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