Writing Dialogues in Signed Languages

[Barbara Pennacchi]

On 08.09.05 16:51, Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa wrote:

> I felt that the issue of writing dialogues is the crucial one for them.

I'd like to add here my .02 eurocents:

I've been working side by side with Sign Language researchers, here in  
Italy for too many years (in spite of my looks). And what I feel here is  
that there's going to be a shift of focus in SL research. About time, huh?

When SL research was focused on "single signs" or one-people simple signed  
sentences, glossing didn't show all its inadequacies. But now the  
playground in SL research allowed by the use of glossing is starting to  
feel a bit too small for some researchers.

I dunno about American SL researchers, mind you. :)

So this is one of the explanations for the insistence of french SL  
researchers. They're growing bored of researching the same topics and want  
to move on different topics, related to studying SL as an "oral language",  
a language used in real-time between more than one person.

And (i hope so) they're not alone here in Europe.

What the heck, it was REALLY about time!!!! They (SL researchers) can be  
so dense, sometimes.... ;)

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