Workshop on phonetic notation of SLs

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 21, 2008

Hello Ingvild!
Thanks for this message....This event mentioned below is related to  
the Scott Liddell and Robert Johnson system from the 1980's...it is a  
linguistically-based notation system that is for linguists...nothing  
like SignWriting and could not be used for writing Sign Language  
Literature..it is not a true writing system for daily use at all...I  
met the inventors years ago....when I taught a workshop on SignWriting  
at Gallaudet University in 1984, I had lunch with Scott Lilddell and  
Bob Johnson...they teach linguistics at the Linguistics dept at  
Gallaudet ...at least they did at the time...and it is not like the  
Stokoe system either...a different system...It does not have the same  
purpose as SignWriting, but it would be fun to have some SignWriting  
participants at their meeting -

For those new on our List, SignWriting is used as a linguistic  
notation system too, but it was developed for everyday use as a real  
writing system for signers...so we can write stories and books in  
written signed languages, written by the users of the languages, and  
not just for research or specific linguistic projects...SignWriting  
incorporates writing facial expressions and mime and gesture and so  
many more important features that make it possible to write  
storytelling...

Here is a description from their web page mentioned below:

  Description of the workshop:
  This workshop will present the details of a phonetic notation system  
for signed languages developed by Robert Johnson and Scott Liddell.  
This approach to phonetics has evolved substantially since it  
publication in the 1980s in its earlier form which was sometimes known  
as movement-hold notation.

Thanks for the posting, Ingvild!

Val ;-)

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On May 21, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Ingvild Roald wrote:

>  If anyone in Europe, or elsewhere, who knows SignWriting and are  
> into sign lingustics would attend, I think that would be useful. The  
> topics are certainly of interest, the notation system used I don't  
> know about ... Seems as if Someone at Gallaudet are reinventing the  
> weel.
>
> Ingvild, Norway (not myself well enough to attend, otherwise I would)
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> We are pleased to inform you that Johnson's seminar in Paris-11 from
> June 9 to 12 will be entirely accessible in British Sign Language.
>
> For more information go to:
>    http://perso.limsi.fr/filhol/bob-seminar
>
> See you there maybe.
> Best regards,
> Michael Filhol.
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