invisible person in ASL storytelling...

[Adam Frost]

To be honest, I think writing in the second head is too much for  
everyday writing. I couldn't even begin to read the sign. But when Val  
wrote it without and it was placed in the flow of the reading, it was  
clear to me what was happaning. It reminds me of a point in The Cat in  
the Hat where the cat is balancing items on his paws, head, and tail.  
There were no "item" symbols placed and the story still read fine. I  
feel it is the same here. Like any language, when reading it, a person  
with the language knowledge will fill in the blanks that a person  
without the same knowledge would miss. I have noticed that this use of  
classifiers is one that many non native signers have a hard time  
understanding at first.

Adam

On Sep 18, 2009, at 8:11 AM, "Bill Reese" <wreese01 at tampabay.rr.com>  
wrote:

> That's an interesting idea, Ingvild.  That seems to be a difference,  
> again, between a linguistic study and a written language.  It's a  
> topic that would definitely need to be debated - would it be an  
> additional standard, an option, or would it be too confusing when  
> interpreting a sign?  In the issue at hand, there is no second man  
> in the signing itself but there is one in the story.   So does the  
> story line become what it signed or the movement made by the story  
> teller?  How would we apply the idea to placement markers, which  
> indicate separate people within a story - would we be free to add  
> faces to each location to indicate a person?  Would this lead to  
> adding abstract symbols for other things, animate and inanimate.   
> Would sign writing become more iconic and complex because if it?
>
> Obviously, if the expressive viewpoint can be written without ever  
> being actually expressed - as in a writer directly writing a story  
> without transcription of what someone else is signing - then it  
> opens up the idea of presenting everyone involved in the story - the  
> same as placement markers would do.  So should we use placement  
> markers and indicate the second person, as we know how to do now, as  
> a separate sign, even though a signer may not actually make the  
> placement marker sign?  In hearing languages, when a speaker leaves  
> out a word or concept, it is often put in parenthesis in the  
> transcription.
>
> For example: "My son jumped (over) the hurdle."
>
> It clarifies the meaning of what is said.  Could then we put a  
> second person location marker in parenthesis when a signer does not  
> indicate one but it's essential to the understanding?
>
> Bill
>
>
> Ingvild Roald wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I do not agree with Val that the job is to write what is  
>> seen on the video. That will not get the message of the original  
>> story across. This is maybe one of the reasons we really need to  
>> sign languages: that the video translation is not a full  
>> translation form English (or Greek) to ASL, but a partial one. With  
>> the written form, we are able to bring in the second person, not  
>> visible in the video.
>>
>> Thus, I prefer the first version, with the 'invisible' person present
>>
>> Ingvild
>>
>>
>>
>> > From: sutton at signwriting.org
>> > To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:20:23 -0700
>> > CC: josignj at aol.com
>> > Subject: [sw-l] invisible person in ASL storytelling...
>> >
>> > SignWriting List
>> > September 16, 2009
>> >
>> > On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>> > > I am watching a video (if you can see the video it is the Bible,
>> > > Mark 07_31-37 at .43 on the counter). Jesus is healing a Deaf/ 
>> Mute
>> > > man. -- First Jesus sticks his fingers into the mans ears and  
>> then
>> > > removes them.---- So how do I show to whom Jesus to doing this  
>> to...
>> >
>> > Hello Jonita and everyone -
>> > You are writing from an ASL videotape that Deaf Missions made of  
>> the
>> > Bible. The signer is Patrick Graybill, and he did an excellent
>> > description of Jesus placing his index fingers in a Deaf man's  
>> ears to
>> > heal him...when he signed this story, Patrick did not have a real
>> > person to place his index fingers into...he had to show this  
>> story in
>> > ASL, without anyone else standing in front of him...
>> >
>> > So your job is to try to write what you see Patrick do on the  
>> video...
>> >
>> > Everyone sees things a little differently, but here is my writing  
>> of
>> > this position and movement, plus attached are clips from the  
>> video of
>> > Patrick...
>> >
>> > How did I write this?
>> >
>> > 1. First I place the shoulders and head facing the left front  
>> corner
>> >
>> > 2. Second, I write the hands in the sign over to the left side of  
>> the
>> > head and shoulders, like this:
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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