<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div>One I've seen pretty often, although I don't know if its the kind you want, is that "You can't write my language." I think its a point of pride that ASL is so different that there is no way you could possibly reduce it to symbols on paper... Of course that is easily proven wrong.<br><br>cherie<br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Erika Hoffmann <erhoffma@oberlin.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, November 5, 2009 3:40:22 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [sw-l] common criticisms of signwriting?<br></font><br>
Hi! I mentioned the last time I posted that I'm working on a paper<br>about SignWriting for presentation at the American Anthropological<br>Association meeting in December.<br>One of the things I'm thinking about is the ways in which Signwriting<br>and Signwriten documents can be used to critique dominant ideologies<br>about language and writing that are common in Linguistics and related<br>disciplines. At the same time, I want to note that the radical nature<br>of the script can sometimes be a social barrier to its adoption by<br>signers (particularly because of the historical relationship between<br>the Linguistic validation of sign languages with the social validation<br>of Deaf signers).<br>I'm wondering if any of you would be willing to share some of the ways<br>you've heard people criticize or dismiss SSW (or point me to places<br>where these opinions are aired). I'm looking for people's concerns<br>about the script itself (i.e., "it looks like
hieroglyphics") rather<br>than the other common arguments about the need for a script at all<br>(i.e., "Deaf people can just write in English").<br>Thanks!<br>Best,<br>Erika<br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a ymailto="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu" href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a></span><br><br>Change Email Settings<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a></span><br><br></div></div>
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