<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt">i have the first picture done, saved in US literature puddle, "cw frog where 1" and "cw frog where 2" working on picture two now. should be shorter, now that I am done with all the set up of who is where...<br><br>cherie<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <erhoffma@OBERLIN.EDU><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 26, 2013 2:50 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> revisiting the book idea<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7602893290"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all- <br></div><br>As you may remember, a while back we had a conversation about whether listmembers would be interested in creating a short SW document for inclusion in the book I'm working on. What I originally proposed was:<br clear="all">
<div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font><br>"What if we selected some kind of passage that all of you who
were willing could translate into your respective sign language and write up
using SW? I could devote a chapter of the book to these different texts, which
would allow for a comparison across both different sign languages and different
ways of using SW. Each writer could perhaps reflect on the choices they made in creating their document, including perhaps how their
backgrounds/goals affect these choices (since some of you are poets, some linguists, etc). And perhaps participants could also
provide their own thoughts about what we can learn from the comparison of these
texts."<br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font>We discussed at length what would be the best kind of thing to use as the prompt for such a passage. It seemed that the thing most agreeable would be to use a simple image as a prompt, something that would lead to interesting sentence but not take too much of your time to create. I proposed using the two images attached here, writing perhaps one or two sentences about each, for a total of 2-4 sentences. <br>
<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font>Well, I just got a prompt from a potential publisher asking when I can give them a manuscript draft. So I figured I had better re-open the conversation!<br>
<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font>Here's what I think would be ideal: <br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font>If those of you willing to do so would create brief texts based on the images and post them to the list. I am interested not only in the texts, but in the rich conversations about the different languages and writing styles that this will likely generate. As I wrote to the publisher: </font></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;">"I
will invite SignWriters to contribute SignWritten texts to the book and to
participate in the analysis of these texts"<br><br> </span>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font>Note that, as this is a linguistic anthropological project, it isn't necessary to ensure that the texts will be the same - for example, it's fine if different people write sentences describing different elements of the picture. <br>
<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font>So, what do you think? Shall we try it? <br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font> </font></span><br>
-- <br>Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway<br>Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>Oberlin College
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