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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Mar 24, 2000 2:55 am Subject: Re: How to Transcribe Videos in SW, Part 1 | ||||||||||||
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On 3/22/00, Mark Penner wrote: >Yes. It will be interesting to see what expressions are percieved as >important by signers from various countries. When we do the editing for our >videos, we find that eyeblinks are major cues in telling us where to fade >in and fade out naturally. But perhaps only a linguist would be interested >in recording all that detail. A Japanese signer would do the eyeblinks >automatically when they came to the end of the sentence or started a >paragraph, without being told to do it by facial expressions. SignWriting List March 23, 2000 The eyeblinks sound fascinating, Mark, and I too think that is most likely quite important from a linguistic perspective. And it may be that Japanese Sign Language grammar is unique in that sense... But I will not be teaching the linguistic analysis of anything. Instead I am going to teach basic movement analysis and how to write anything you see. If it is an eyeblink, we will discuss how to write that...but not from a linguistic perspective, but instead from a movement perspective. That is why it is too bad, in a way, that you know Japanese Sign Language yourself, because it will be harder for you to divorce yourself from the meaning...but you can "pretend" you don't know the signs - ha! ;-) PS. Maybe I should teach you all DanceWriting instead...hmmm.... PPS. The next stage will be to write ASL poetry, and the piece I have is close to being gesture or "mime-like", so that will give people an excellent exercise in writing movement for "movement's sake"...since they are not all "recognizable ASL signs" but instead almost like acting out a scene, portraying a gripping, spiritual poem... Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l SignWriting List Help web page address coming soon ;-) | ||||||||||||
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