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From:
Carlos Thompson Date: Tue Jan 5, 1999 3:47 pm Subject: Re: Bilingualism & SignWriting | ||||||||
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Valerie Sutton wrote: > "Is SignWriting this Bilingualism thing that we hear so much about...?" > > I have not answered the person yet. > > How would some of you suggest I answer that question? :-) I think the answer is NO. SignWirting is not the same thing than Bilingualism, even if most of us are hearings who have learn or are learning a Sign Language or Deaf who can write in English, SignWriting isn't itself Bilingual. SignWriting is a mean to write sign languages, as Roman Alphabet is a way of writing many spoken languages. If you have born in an English speaking contry and you talk and listen in Spoken English and write and read in Written English you are not bilingual, if you learn another language... even if Spoken and Written English are different languages as they are. So SignWriting is not the same than Bilingualism. SW is just a medium for writing signs, than can be used as primary written system for Deaf (either Bilingual or not) or as tool for research (even if the research knows nothing about the Sign Language s/he is documenting). -- Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzon ITEC-Telecom, Colombia https://alpha.telecom-co.net/~cthompso/ | ||||||||
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