Writing Dialogues in Signed Languages

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 8, 2005

>> Barbara Pennachi from Italy wrote:
>> 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.


Hello Barbara and Everyone!
Of course glossing is inadequate...and you are not alone on that...

The truth is that glossing simply cannot describe the nuances of  
signed languages...Take a look at this written video clip in  
ASL...There not really a true word-gloss that an describe exactly  
what Kevin did...seeing the gloss-word would not tell the reader  
about his eyegaze, for example!!

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/poetry/oneharbor/ 
oneharbor05.html



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