Writing Dialogues in Signed Languages

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 7, 2005

Outstanding suggestions, Ingvild...I like this!! This is very close  
to the way I envisioned it too...plus there are some experiences we  
have had years ago, when writing large group dances, where the  
dancers all related to one prop on stage, that might be useful too,  
but applied to SignWriting of course...

Val ;-)

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On Sep 7, 2005, at 3:53 AM, Ingvild Roald wrote:


> If we write down in coloums, and increase width of the coloumn / the
> number of lines, the common area should be in the middle, and the
> participants on the side. Slanted shoulder lines would also  
> indicate the
> speaker, as in normal role-shifting signed rendering of a dialogue.  
> Eye
> gaze would help too.
>
> In normal signed rendering of a dialogue, names are not used all  
> the time,
> just for introduction.
>
> Of course, if the problem is how to transcribe a dialogue between two
> physical persons, not to transcribe the signed rendereing of this
> dialogue, the problem may be a bit larger, and the use of names and  
> colon
> might help. But still I think a more full useof the coloumn feature  
> would
> be good.
>
> Ingvild