Number of publications with SignWriting?

[Ingvild Roald]

For me alone, you can count at least 10 books/ booklets, and two reseach 
articles in major international journals, containing SignWriting, at the 
moment. The number will grow shortly

Ingvild




>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
>CC: dwanders at berkeley.edu, "Deborah Anderson" <dwanders at sonic.net>
>Subject: [sw-l] Re: Number of publications with SignWriting?
>Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:24:20 -0700
>
>SignWriting List
>May 19, 2006
>
>SW List Members -
>Deborah Anderson asked me to post this message to the SignWriting  List 
>(see below). This question is in relation to placing SignWriting  in 
>Unicode. Deborah is attending a meeting of the Unicode Technical  Committee 
>all this week, and they need to know how many publications,  (or how many 
>pages in documents), have been written in  SignWriting?...I told Deborah 
>well over 1000 documents at least, if  not more, plus the number of pages 
>will be in the multiple thousands...
>
>For example, just the Parkhurst Mystery Novel alone, written in  Spanish 
>Sign Language from Madrid, is 140 pages of pure  SignWriting...in a perfect 
>bound book..that is only one of many...
>
>Deborah - You can read about that Novel written in SignWriting on  this web 
>page:
>
>SignWriting in Spain
>http://www.SignWriting.org/spain
>
>Val ;-)
>
>
>
>On May 18, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Deborah Anderson wrote:
>
>>Dear Madam (or Sir),
>>I am working on a project and need to estimate the number of  publications 
>>in the world today in SignWriting (books, magazines,  articles), as well 
>>as those that contain SignWriting (i.e.,  introductory books in English or 
>>German that teach SignWriting). In  doing a search on "WorldCat" via the 
>>UC Berkeley library, I only  come up with 25 books, which I am sure is 
>>probably too low. I see  there are two serial publications, The Sign 
>>Writer (1989-) and Sign  Writer updates (begun?), which ought also to be 
>>included in a  count.  Do you think the number of books today (as produced 
>>in all  countries) in SignWriting and with SignWriting might total 400 or  
>>so, with magazines perhaps 10?
>>
>>I've looked through your website and thought it best to write to  you for 
>>any assistance you could provide. I'd be very grateful for  any assistance 
>>you can provide.
>>
>>With many thanks,
>>Deborah Anderson
>>
>>Deborah Anderson
>>Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
>>Proj. Leader, Script Encoding Initiative
>>http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei
>>NOTE NEW Email: dwanders at sonic.net
>>(or dwanders at berkeley.edu)
>
>