Place-name sign in Austrian Sign Language

[Des Power]

Well done Franz!! Everybody should have a similar sign :-)

Des

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:20 PM, <Franz.Dotter at uni-klu.ac.at> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
>
> The Centre for Sign Language and Deaf Communication of Klagenfurt
> University is happy to announce the placement of Austrian Sign Language at
> the place-name sign of our university. Maybe it is the first sign worldwide
> to contain also the sign language variant of the place-name?
>
> Being able to use a place-name out of your own language officially is
> always a symbolic act. Especially for minorities it signalises that also
> their members can claim to be "at home here".
>
> We want to thank our university for giving us the opportunity to state
> that we are included here. We also want to thank all our supporters for
> help at the right time and our colleagues for the scientific communications.
>
> If the attached photos  (the four signs telling "Alps Adria University
> Klagenfurt") are not distributed within this mail, you may look at
> ftp://fzgs.uni-klu.ac.at/placenamesign (accessible without password)
>
> P.S.: SignWriting should be added, we know.
>
> P.S. 2: At the exact time of the application of the sign there was a
> thunderstorm. Everyone may interpret that individually.
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Franz Dotter
>
> University of Klagenfurt
> Center for Sign Language and Deaf Communication
> Funded by: Provincial government of Carinthia, Bundessozialamt Kaernten
> Head: Franz Dotter (hearing)
> Collaborators: Elisabeth Bergmeister (deaf), Silke Bornholdt (deaf),
> Luzia Gansinger (hearing), Simone Greiner-Ogris (hearing) Andrea Grilz
> (hearing, on maternity leave), Christian Hausch (deaf), Marlene Hilzensauer
> (hearing), Klaudia Krammer (hearing), Christine Kulterer (hearing), Anita
> Pirker (deaf), Nathalie Slavicek (hard of hearing), Natalie Unterberger
> (deaf)
> Homepage: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/zgh
> Fax: ++43 (0)463 2700 2899
> Phone: ++43 (0)463 2700 /2821 (Franz Dotter),/2823 (Marlene Hilzensauer),
> /2824 (Klaudia Krammer), /2829 (Christine Kulterer)
> Email addresses: firstname.lastname at uni-klu.ac.at
>
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