SignPuddle Brackets

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 23, 2009

On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Stephen Jones wrote:
> I am currently doing phrases that require facial expression to be  
> attributed to a whole phrase. As I was looking through SignPuddle I  
> could not find the brackets I used to use for that. Are they there  
> and I just missed them or where they removed? Thanks, Stephen Jones

Hi Stephen!
Thanks for this question. The brackets can definitely be written in  
the ISWA 2008 symbolset, which is what we are using in SignPuddle  
Online, but there are no specific symbols for those brackets any  
longer. I did that very much on purpose, since they are rarely used  
for everyday writing of SignWriting Literature now...and I know they  
can be constructed when needed...for linguistic research, and so  
forth...

The brackets were symbols we used in the 1970's in Sutton  
DanceWriting, and they became an active part of the International  
Movement Writing Alphabet, for writing sports, dance and all body  
movement. And they certainly are used for Sign Language Research, to  
show the fact that one symbol, such as a facial expression, can  
influence a whole bunch of signs to follow...and I know that some  
continue to use them to this day...

We use them rarely to write ASL Literature and video transcription and  
storytelling, because we write the same thing in a different way...so  
there are several ways to write that issue...

But...that is neither here nor there...let me show you how I would  
construct the brackets in the next message...a diagram is coming -

Val ;-)



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