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Stefan Woehrmann2 Date: Fri Nov 9, 2001 8:08 pm Subject: Re: Spain and Germany | |
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Steve Parkhurst wrote : ... .... Stefan is using SW > with children who do not necessarily know the SL. For us it is important to > be able to read fluently with speed. The fewer symbols you have, the faster > you can read. Of course there has to be a balance; if you leave out too > much, it's hard to understand the text; if you put in too many details, it > slows you down and you lose the flow and the context. We do put in any > facial expressions that are grammatical: biting the lip ("F") or teeth bared > as an intensifier; or eyebrows as intensifier or topic, etc. > Hm - I would like to add my idea . My style of writing changed over the last two years. In the beginning I concentrated on other symbols and neglected the mouthsymbols. I transcribed in the meantime lots of videos showing competent deaf signers and had to learn that in most of these DGS- presentations the signer use a lot of mouth movements while they pronounce without voice the German words or at least parts of the words that go along with their signing. So German words that have to been read from the lips seem to be an important part of some DGS signs and should be written therefor. Steve and me discussed this difference between writing for practical purpose versus exact transcription . Since I produced most of my documents from video-transcriptions I got used to the idea that it takes some time to write a individual style of a specific signer. As a movement writer I am not the one to decide that this facial expression or that movement or holding of the passive left hand is important or necessary. I just try to document as exact as possible the whole situation. And Steve is right - without knowing about the circumstances or even the video - the reader has sometimes a hard time to understand these super exact written signs - ;-( Anyway it seems to be a good exercise to get practice and to learn to see. ) On the other hand - well - for Signed German documents I add a lot of mouth symbols in order to give the reader not such a hard time to identify the exact grammar or word of the German expression for the presented sign. These documents are written in order to allow hearing SL - learners to improve their SL skills and on the other hand to allow deaf students to improve their skills in Spoken German ( - and that works fine !! ) Stefan ;-) |
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