SWML site

[Cherie Wren]

On another list I am on, there has been a discussion of colleges accepting ASL as a foreign/world language credit.  Someone just posted a liink to a document from the University of California Berkley Language Committee about why ASL should be accepted.  Near the end, this paragraph caught my eye:

"It should be noted that although the Deaf community has generally rejected the idea of writing ASL, and preferred to remain a face-to-face community for daily interaction (using English for written communication, therefore), there is a growing tradition of SignWriting which allows nonlinguists to readily transcribe ASL into written form. This may turn out to be another medium for the dissemination of ASL literature, but the Committee bases its judgment on the current videotaped ASL literary corpus."

The growing tradition of Signwriting...  It feels good to see that.

full document:  http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/fl/berkeley.pdf

cherie





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February 24, 2010

I love Steve's HTML Reference Guide to all of the symbols in the ISWA...

If you click on the links he provides below, for example:

SymbolGroup 28: Dynamics:
http://signbank.org/swis/iswa/59584_sg.html

All the symbols are listed for you, with the names of the symbols, and all the sources needed...a great resource!

As you can see, Steve has given each symbol a "BaseSymbol Number"...so this will make it easy to talk about...for example, the Fast Symbol, is also Number 619, so we can refer to it easier now...







On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> 
> Just to clarify.
> 
> The ISWA has 7 categories.  Your example of fast uses category 5 (SymbolGroup 28 : dynamics). http://signbank.org/swis/iswa/59584_sg.html
> 
> Category 7 (SymbolGroup 30: Advanced Sorting) is different and the topic of discussion.
> http://signbank.org/swis/iswa/60832_sg.html
> 
> Categories 1 thru 5 (SymbolGroups 1 thru 28) are the writing symbols.  Only writing symbols are allowed in the spelling of a sign.
> 
> Category 6 (SymbolGroup 29: punctuation) is not allowed in the spelling or sequence of a sign.  It is always used by itself in the middle lane.
> 
> Category 7 (SymbolGroup 30: advanced sorting) is not allowed in the spelling of a sign but is allowed in the SignSpelling Sequence of a sign.
> The Sign Symbol Sequence is the order of the symbols in the  ISWA.  The term was used by Valerie to replace the term alphabetical order.  Alphabetical order, while technically correct for SignWriting, caused confusion because of the association between finger spelling and the Roman alphabet.  We sort by Sign Symbol Sequence order, but this is the order of the symbols for the entire ISWA.
> 
> The SignSpelling Sequence is a list of writing and sorting symbols for an individual sign.  This sequence of symbols is used for sorting.
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
> 
> 
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