multiple faces, changing eye gaze

[Bill Reese]

Oh I wasn't saying to do away with the facial expressions, I was 
thinking of a way of presenting one of them differently - sort of like a 
prepositional phrase - but within the content of the sign itself.

Bill


Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> Hi, Bill!
>
> The facial expressions themselves communicate grammatical information 
> like Cherie commented. So we just need to have rules that describe how 
> SignWriting handles simultaneous and sequential facial movements that 
> occupy the same space so that the ASL grammar comes through in the 
> correct sequence.
>
> Valerie, I have privately emailed some ideas to you. Let me know what 
> you think.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On 12 Jul 2007, at 13:05, Bill Reese wrote:
>
>> In English, we might say "As she was opening the box she turned to 
>> the audience with an expression that said, "Look!"."   Are we into 
>> grammar here?  Could a sign conceivably have "grammatical space" 
>> where things like this could be put?  For instance, could the face be 
>> smaller to give it a certain meaning?  Also, in English we use words 
>> like "as", "while", "after", etc. to give a meaning of time.  These 
>> words have no meaning apart from the rest of the sentence.  Could 
>> signwriting do the same?  Do we have a sign for "as" that could be 
>> used with the face to indicate that one look, not associated with the 
>> sign itself is being given during the sign?  Could we even give 
>> meaning to the expression so that we could put the face apart from 
>> the rest of the sign, perhaps a bit smaller with the sign for "look!" 
>> in parenthesis next to the face?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>> I believe I found the sign on the video that coordinates with this 
>>> writing...It is attached.
>>>
>>> I believe you are trying to show, with the double eye-gaze, that you 
>>> first look down at your hands down-diagonal, and then turn to look 
>>> at the audience and that is the eyegaze forward? And the question 
>>> is...what about the timing of those head movements and eyegaze, 
>>> since one happens after the other? I need time to think about this 
>>> one ;-))
>>>
>>> Any ideas anyone? Val ;-)
>>>
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>>> <mime-attachment.jpeg>
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