Signing with multiple speakers

[Charles Butler]

Hi valerie and all,
 
The discussion on signing multiple speakers will enable Valerie to fold in, for all of us, the thing that started the whole Sign Writing movement, Dance Writing.
 
Writing a ballet is writing a conversation in movement, sometimes with 50 dancers on stage.  Ballet is a language in itself, a movement language, or a mime, but still a language, and all of the beauty of the dance enables us to take all of the beauty of a signed language in a multiple party context and write it.
 
"He said angrily" does not become a distraction any more than .  The facial expression carries all the meaning of "angry" which would be lost with just "he said".  
 
Multiple angry people holding a conversation may get a bit confusing with sorting out simultaneous movements, but one can certainly write it down.   I envisioned this in my work in Brazil when I started trying to experiment with lanes myself.  Didn't get very far and I ran out of time, but it would be a challenge.
 
Carmen Miranda (from Libras) here shows some possibilities.  The body shifts for a single person signing can be expanded upon for multiple persons in conversation.
 
 
 


Honza <honza at ruce.cz> wrote:
Hi Tomas and everyone,

yes, you are right.... there is a mistake. My fault. Second handshape 
should be black...

Honza

Tomá¹ Klapka wrote:

> Hi Honza, I am not sure, but isn't there a mistake in your sign?
> I think the second shape should be black. ;)
> Tomas
>
> Honza wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> could you help me how to write this sign (attached) as one picture?
>> I can't find movement fits to this sign.
>>
>> thanks.
>> it means last year
>> Honza
>>
>>
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