Fast and Slow Movement

[eghoffma at UMICH.EDU]

Thanks! I don't know how I missed those!
Erika

Quoting Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM>:

> SignWriting List
> August 9, 2006
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> On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:50 AM, eghoffma at UMICH.EDU wrote:
>> Hi - I was looking through the dynamics and I'm wondering if there  
>> are any symbols to represent whether a sign is being performed more  
>> slowly than usual? Or more quickly? I see that tension can be  
>> represented, but that doesn't quite seem to suit my need here. For  
>> example, I'm doing a transcript in which a fluent signer is  
>> conversing with a homesigner from a rural area. At the beginning of  
>> the conversation he performs a lot of signs more slowly and much  
>> bigger than would normally done. Is there a way to convey this?  
>> Other than arrows for large straight movements (it is tricky with  
>> curved or circular movement, I agree)?
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> Slow and Fast movement is written quite a lot...in both the signs  
> themselves and in the Punctuation Symbols that influence entire  
> phrases and entire sentences...so read the chapters in the Lessons in 
>  SignWriting textbook on both Dynamics and Punctuation
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> http://signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less007.html
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> and read this chapter on Dynamics starting here:
> http://signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/168%20Dynamics.html
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