<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I think that you should strongly consider a presentation at TISLR 10 in Indiana in September of 2009. They need a strong anthropologic challenge to their assumptions in a way that is unmistakable. Their deadline for a special presentation is tomorrow, but they only asking a precis to consider. Yours would be a first for your sign language. <div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>Rachel Channon of the University of Connecticut and I are working on a database in multiple signed languages for comparison between Sign Type and SW over a large longitudinal study and would love to have Nepali sign language represented, particularly since you have been videotaping all of your findings.</div><div><br></div><div>I am located in Hyattsville, MD, close to Washington, DC.
</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Charles R. Butler, III, Center for Sutton Movement Writing<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 10/14/09, Erika Hoffmann <i><erhoffma@oberlin.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Erika Hoffmann <erhoffma@oberlin.edu><br>Subject: [sw-l] ling anth research about SSW<br>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 12:40 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Val and everyone else. I've been on these boards for a while, but<br>have only piped up on occasion. I'm a linguistic anthropologist who<br>works on Nepali Sign Language and I've used SSW to create transcripts<br>for the analysis of the video data I've collected. It has been a<br>wonderful tool and, as I've used it more and followed your discussions<br>on this board I have decided to not only use SSW for my research,
but<br>also to write about it more directly.<br>I'll be giving a paper at the American Anthropological Association<br>this December about SSW. I've pasted the abstract for that paper<br>(which I am still writing) below. I'd like to continue to develop this<br>line of inquiry in the future. If I can get funding (and I think I<br>can) I would love to visit some centers for sign writing to extend the<br>ethnographic aspect of this project beyond the discussion boards. Val,<br>would it be possible to talk about my visiting you sometime in the<br>next year or so? I'm in Ohio, so I will also hope to visit the Church<br>in Michigan that uses SSW. Would anyone else be willing to possibly<br>allow me to visit them and participate in and observe your use of SSW<br>in your particular social context? I just want to see how receptive<br>list members might be to such a project.<br>Thanks!<br>AAA paper:<br>This paper explores the relationship between language ideology
and<br>script by detailing emerging practices for writing sign languages.<br>Sign languages have traditionally been considered un-writable, a state<br>of affairs not due to the formal properties of sign languages but to<br>the ideologies about the nature of both language and writing that have<br>informed the development of most sign languages scripts. However,<br>signers worldwide are increasingly producing written sign language<br>texts using Sutton SignWriting (SSW), a script originally developed<br>for dance notation. Because this script emerged outside the rubric of<br>formal linguistics, its development circumvented disciplinary<br>ideologies in productive ways. Drawing on examples of texts produced<br>by SSW users, and the metalinguistic discussion of these texts on<br>online discussion boards, I detail the ways in which use of this<br>script makes visible properties of both spoken and signed language<br>that had been ideologically erased from
linguistic analysis by the use<br>of scripts developed according to a spoken rather than visual language<br>model. This allows SSW users to explicitly articulate and challenge<br>dominant, and often backgrounded, ideologies about the nature of<br>language and writing in ways that are fruitful for public and<br>scholarly understandings of spoken, as well as signed, languages.<br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a ymailto="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu" href="/mc/compose?to=SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br><br>Change Email Settings<br><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l"
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