[sw-l] SignWriting Symposium ...question for organizing committee...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 19, 2005

Dear Organizing Committee for the SignWriting Symposium...
Please answer the question below, from the reporter Cathy Hefferman...

> What does the European Symposium set out to achieve?

There is a deadline for the magazine article, so please post the answer
to this List...Many thanks!

Val ;-)

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On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Cathy H wrote:

> Hello
>
> My name is Cathy Heffernan and I am the editor of SIGNMatters, the
> British Deaf Association's monthly magazine. We are doing a feature on
> SignWriting in the June edition and I'd really appreciate it if some
> of you could take the time to answer some of the below questions. Any
> other comments would be very welcome and if anyone is interested in
> writing something for the feature themselves, just get in touch.
>
> SignWriting - questions
> what it is for
> why it was developed
> how it was developed
> who uses it and why
> is SignWriting linked to a particular sign language (like BSL, ASL) or
> is it  the same world-over?
> Does SignWriting follow the same grammatical word order and phoenetic
> sequence as whatever sign language it represents?
> Is SignWriting only suitable in certain situations or can it be used
> to, say, write an email?
> What does the European Symposium set out to achieve?
>
> As I am working to deadline I would really appreciate it if you can
> email back by the end of this week or mid-next week.
>
> Hope to hear from you soon!
> Best regards
> Cathy Heffernan
> Editor
> SIGNMatters
> British Deaf Association
>