<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">January 24, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I received this question...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">QUESTION:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7" class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><font id="role_document" face="Arial" class=""><div class="">I was researching more on the dual coding theory of learning and there are articles about the deaf and dual coding or imagery. I started wondering if SignWriting is a type of dual coding.</div><div class=""> </div></font></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7" class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><font face="Arial" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ANSWER:</div></font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for this question.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">I am hoping that on the SignWriting List someone can explain to us what "dual coding" means. I am sorry that I do not know what it is.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting is not a coding system. It is a writing system. It is a way to write body movement. We can write sign languages with the SignWriting Script.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So SignWriting is a writing system for a series of languages - sign languages - just like A, B, C and the letters of the Roman alphabet write a series of spoken languages - the spoken languages of Europe, such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and English - all use the Roman alphabet symbols to write their unique languages...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the SignWriting symbols are used to write any sign language in the world. The person writing has to know their own sign language, and then they write what they feel and see...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, no, I would not call it a coding system, but then again, I do not know what a dual coding system is ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Val ;-)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img apple-inline="yes" id="DE1340AF-1EC8-473A-A511-A69B8A224705" src="cid:FCC351A4-174E-452C-8BD0-DEAA2335E5EA" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Valerie Sutton</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Read & Write Sign Languages</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org" class="">http://www.SignWriting.org</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting List</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Technical Support: Ask questions...</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist" class="">http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting Symposium Online</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Live Streaming Presentations on YouTube</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org/symposium" class="">http://www.SignWriting.org/symposium</a></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting Software</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Use SignPuddle, SignWriter, Delegs</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Write Sign Documents & Dictionaries</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#1266bc" face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><u class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/downloads" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/downloads</a></u></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#1266bc" face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><u class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/</a></u></font></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Writing Encyclopedias in Sign Languages</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org/encyclopedia" class="">http://www.SignWriting.org/encyclopedia</a></span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">American Sign Language Wikipedia</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#1266bc" face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><u class=""><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase" class="">https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase</a></u></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#1266bc" face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><u class=""><br class=""></u></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Tunisian Sign Language Wikipedia</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#1266bc" face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><u class=""><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tse" class="">https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tse</a></u></font></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting Shop</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Books, DVDs, Lessons, Services</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org/shop" class="">http://www.SignWriting.org/shop</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting on Twitter</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://twitter.com/signwriting" class="">http://twitter.com/signwriting</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/ASLWikipedia" class="">https://twitter.com/ASLWikipedia</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting on YouTube</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://youtube.com/signwriting" class="">http://youtube.com/signwriting</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">SignWriting on Facebook</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://facebook.com/SignWriting" class="">http://facebook.com/SignWriting</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 102, 188);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Center For Sutton Movement Writing</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">a US educational nonprofit organization</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">PO Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 160, 99);" class="">Tel: 858-456-0098 Skype: valeriesutton</div></div>
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