Mouth Patterns

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 21, 2008

On Sep 21, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> Hi Val,
>  your description is perfect –
>  the third group -
> 3. Sign Language mouth movements based on grammar....what is that in  
> German?
>  the third group is called Mundgestik


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Hello Stefan and Maria!

OK. So here is the terminology so we can understand each other:

German.................................English

Mundbildschrift......................Woehrmann's SpeechWriting

Mundbilder............................Mouthing

Mundgestik...........................Sign Language Grammatical Mouth  
Movements


In English, we cannot call the third group "mime" or "mimic"....that  
would only confuse English speakers. Mime or mimic, for me anyway,  
means the classic pantomime performed on stage by mime artists, such  
as the late great Marcel Marceau...And the term mime or mimic is not  
just mouth movements...it means mime and gesture of the whole body in  
English, in my understanding of English, anyway...

I do not know any other English term other than Sign Language  
Grammatical Mouth Movements....

Does anyone else know an English term that means the same? It would be  
great to know a shorter description like they have in German!

Val ;-)


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