<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I have no problem reading your writing.<div><br></div><div>Charles Butler</div><div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 10/22/09, 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] Nepali Sign Language article using SignWriting/SSW visit<br>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 3:18 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hello again - sorry for the brief silence. I'm at a new job so I have<br>a new email and needed to update my membership in the list.<br><br>In reply to my last message Val asked: And what about your actual<br>Nepali Sign Language writing? Do you have any samples? I notice we do<br>not have a Nepali SignPuddle and I am really surprised...how did
you<br>write your documents?"<br><br>I'm not sure if my project works well with Puddles because I'm not<br>trying to document NSL per se, or create dictionary listings. Rather,<br>I've been using SSW to create transcripts of conversational<br>interactions - so in order to reflect the formal properties of what's<br>going on I can't use citation forms. I used the signwriting tool on<br>the website to create my transcripts.<br><br>At Stefan's suggestion I'm passing along some material I sent him last<br>week. I've attached a pdf of an article I've written for the Journal<br>of Linguistic Anthropology. I'm also sending a link to the journal's<br>web page, where I've also got video (re-enacted for the privacy of my<br>participants) and SSW transcripts to supplement the English glosses in<br>the print journal.<br>I'm sure you will find many errors in my Signwriting, but I had to<br>work quickly with the editor to arrange for this special
supplement.<br>Also, you'll note that I am writing from the receptive rather than<br>productive viewpoint. I agree that writing from the productive<br>viewpoint is preferable, but the receptive viewpoint is more in<br>keeping with the way that data would be presented in this journal. It<br>has been quite difficult to work with traditional journal formats to<br>get the SSW transcripts included, but I think it's extremely<br>important. One thing I was quite pleased about is that, in the actual<br>journal text, the SSW for the lexical items appears on the same line<br>as the English glosses, rather than on the same plane as the<br>illustrations from the NSL dictionary, which helps with readers'<br>ability to see that the SSW is writing and not an illustration.<br><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/web-enhanced-articles/web-enhanced-article-metasemiotic-regimentation-in-the-standardization-of-nepali-sign-language/"
target="_blank">http://linguisticanthropology.org/web-enhanced-articles/web-enhanced-article-metasemiotic-regimentation-in-the-standardization-of-nepali-sign-language/</a><br><br>As you will see from the errors I have surely made in my transcripts,<br>I would benefit from visiting some more experienced SignWriters, not<br>only in order to bolster my ability to write about SSW but also to use<br>it well. I received a very short training from James Shepard in 2003,<br>but since then I have been working with it on my own (with occasional<br>questions for the list). Therefore the seminar Val mentioned before is<br>something I would be very interested in attending!<br>And thank you Val for the suggestions about places and people I might visit.<br><br>Best,<br>Erika<br></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a
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