Role shifting

Valerie Sutton signwriting at MAC.COM
Tue Jul 10 19:02:09 UTC 2007


Adam and Cherie -
I am so sorry I never saw this message from Cherie.....

> I've got some serious doubt popping up about roleshifting, and how  
> I'm showing it... Do I need to show the eye gaze and shoulder shift  
> with each sign? I have been putting more eye gaze in here thean I  
> did before... Also when I am shifted to one sign, and signing right  
> like in this passage for example, I have been writing the signs off  
> to the right... which makes some signs more difficult to write.  
> Should I be keeping them centered on the face, as if my shoulders  
> were square, but putting in the shoulder lines?

I guess it was with the SignText and I didn't see it because I was so  
happily reading the signs!!

Many thanks, Adam, for answering....and for also bringing it to our  
attention...

and the eyegaze and role shifting is a fascinating subject...

Val ;-)



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