Number of publications with SignWriting?

[Kimberley A. Shaw]

Hello all:
my soon-to-be-published ASL anthology has 36 pages, some of them more
text-dense than others! The only things in English are the preface,
credits, and colophone. Even the verso and table of contents are
SignWritten!
Best,
Kim from Boston


sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 11:24 AM -0500
wrote:
>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)
>
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