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From:
Stefan Woehrmann Date: Wed Apr 26, 2000 9:35 am Subject: Re: Reading Manuals | |
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Hi Bonnie, good to know you on the SW - list. I love to hear from your problems because that is the way almost everybody starts with it. Iīm not well informed - excuse me_ Do jou have the manuals - which of them? I am working through all of the materials and manuals several times - and according to my level of competence I can get more and more out of them. Valerie - you did an excellent job to describe every little step - from the viewpoint of a person who starts with working with computers. >From: Bonnie Collins >Reply-To: SignWriting List >To: SignWriting List >Subject: Reading Manuals >Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:57:29 -0400 > >Val, > >Thanks for the reminder (and very kindly delivered) that you wrote the >manuals for a purpose. You are right there is a wealth of information >contained within the manual. Alas, I will have to put all this aside >including trying to spell "hammock- attached-to-trees" until I get these >papers written. > >I have moved onto paper number two which covers ASL discourse analysis. I >am in the midst of transcribing Jack and the Beanstalk as signed by a child >(transcribing a child's ASL discourse is so much different than an adult's >- I am trying my best to capture her depiction of the giant walking). Iīm surprised that you are already able to transcribe videos!!! What do you think - "is so much different ? Both are moving - but regarding the adult - we asume that he signs correctly - just the movements we expect. In contrary the child moves in a way we have to look very close ... But thatīs no difference with other SL - Iīm afraid so. Looing at a Japanese signer I canīt "understand" anything. I have to learn to understand movement -watching. > >After I finish with my paper I was hoping that I could post a few excerpts >of my Jack and the Beanstalk transcription attempts for review. How can we get the video - in order to communicate about your transcription? It would not be for a while because I have to work through the manual first and gain some competence with the software (in the meantime I have reverted back to pencil and paper). > Yesssss, good idea! ;-) From my point of view - itīs not a question of how to type and work with SW. No way- Itīs a question of what do I see and how can I write this particular movement and ... all the other important aspects that makes this movement a SignLanguage ;-) I learned a lot from the excellent paper of Joe Martin _ comparing Stokoe and Sutton SW . Congratulation !!! By the way - when I focused on writing by paper and pencil I learned a lot from just copying signs from printed papers (Goldilocks etc..) Iīm happy to know about you . Keep on asking spelling questions. This way we all can check our own abilities. And as I experienced so often in the past - asking a little (??) questions opens a whole lot of problems. Have a great day! And keep on ... ;_) I`m not informed. When did you start SW? Stefan ;-) >Please let me know if this would not be an appropriate approach >to learning Sign Writing through this list. > Just follow the "how to spell "questions and have a look at the emails -teaching - list on the homepage!! |
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