Not about The Amsterdam Manifest

[Carol Padden]

Hello Irene, and hello everyone. I've just joined the SLLing list,
and I may have something to say about the Amsterdam Manifesto
at some point, but I need to read the archives first.

Irene -- have you seen a new volume edited by Betsy Winston on
sign language discourse? A student of mine, Jennifer Rayman has
a piece appearing in the volume, comparing how signers and speakers
"perform" in the two modalities to build a compelling story.


Reference:

Storytelling and conversation : discourse in deaf
communities /, Elizabeth Winston, editor. Washington,
D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, c1999. x, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Carol Padden


At 9:52 PM +0200 8/24/00, Greftegreff, Irene wrote:
>For some reason it took two days for my post about the Amsterdam Manifesto
>to reach the list. It's very redundant now, I'm afraid. I'm not going to
>bore you with what I would have said if I had taken the time to say it
>better, because someone else already did.
>
>Something else:
>
>It seems there's suddenly an abundancy of literature about narrative, but it
>mostly concerns reference, and not the issue of what makes a story a good
>story, which is what interests me more.
>
>I'm analyzing some texts by gifted storytellers, particularly how they use
>repetition and mirroring of elements on several levels. Surely they can't be
>the only ones who use these literary devices. Is anyone else out there
>working on something similar, I wonder?
>
>I think I've read most or all of what there is in print, so I'm more
>interested in work that is on the verge of being published. Or just on the
>planning stage, whatever.  :)
>
>Irene
>(trying to get her Dr. Art. degree over and done with)