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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Mar 9, 2001 4:22 pm Subject: Re: SignNet's Question: Which Viewpoint To Choose? | |
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On 3/8/01, Cristina Pereira wrote: >>> But what I mean is that 'how can we, for example, begin writing >>>in a determinate point of view and then change it, is there any >>>clue to the reader ?' As I've said, our deaf students (adult ones) >>>discuss it many times, strange, that here, hearing people accept >>>it easier. And it's for our deaf students that we're trying to >>>have a better answer. Sometimes it gets hard to do not worry. SignWriting List March 9, 2001 Yes....Cristina...I do understand your concern. And I have heard your question...and I plan to answer it too! I am juggling several jobs here simultaneously, so I answer email inbetween writing grants, fulfilling orders and designing web pages...complicated life...but wonderful too! First, let me summarize...I believe you have two questions...is this correct? QUESTION 1: If a sign is written from the FRONT VIEW, and then in the middle of the sign, the viewpoint changes to the TOP VIEW, how will the reader know that the viewpoint has changed? QUESTION 2: How does the writer know which viewpoint to choose? Assuming those are your two questions, here are some of my thoughts: 1. Only in the EXPRESSIVE view do we switch back and forth, from the TOP to the FRONT views. 2. Since most Deaf people prefer EXPRESSIVE, and since it is the world standard for publishing SignWriting, it is important to understand the reason for the switching. 3. EXPRESSIVE means that you are writing you own hands while you are signing yourself....It is hard to see yourself. 4. When you look down on hands that are close to your body, you are using the TOP VIEW to see your own hands. But when the hands move away...far away...from your body...you could choose to see the hands parallel with the wall from the Front View. 5. All Hand Symbols and Movement Symbols have clues built into the symbols, marking "parallel with the floor", or "parallel with the wall". The Hands have a space representing the horizon, when they are parallel with the floor. The Movement Symbols use a single stem-line to mark "parallel with the floor". 6. The clue is learning "planes". The concept of "planes" is very hard for a native signer, because seeing your own language "relating to space" is an abstract concept....Once it is learned it becomes quite easy...the question is how to get students to that level of fluency in reading the switching of planes.... So either plane is correct...and feel free to switch them at will. Obviously, if you can write each sign keeping to one plane, and not switching them within one sign, that might be better for the reader...but you can switch too...it does depend on the situation..sometimes one viewpoint is easier to read than the other. The subject of teaching planes better, and the switching of them...is one of the topics I am hoping to expand upon in new lessons in the future... More soon - -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l To post a message to the SW List: |
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