AW: Mundbilder in der GebaerdenSchrift

[Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway]

Just to chime in, as Stefan said, Mundbilder isn't meant to represent the
whole articulation of the word. It just represents what mouth movements are
visible on the face when signers using DGS perform signs. And, as he
mentioned, we found that these mouth movements were performed even by
signers who did not know the German word that might be assumed to be
associated with the movement - the movements were simply acquired as part of
the sign. One need not associate them with speech. As Ingvild and Stefan
have also noted, sometimes the part of the sign that appears on the face is
the element of that creates a minimal pair with another sign. So even in a
very pared down way of writing DGS, these mouth movements would be useful.
Yes, it would be very cumbersome to write all the heads for the whole
articulated German words using Mundbildschrift. But, as Charles notes, most
of those movements aren't visible and don't need to be written in Mundbilder,
which usually only needs to show a few heads.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> What it comes down to is "you would not demand a Spanish speaker to learn
> German to communicate in his or her own home but here you are demanding a
> DSL primary user of DSL as his or her own Native Language to learn German in
> order to communicate to the wider culture.
>
> Where is DSL as DSL, not as essentially a coding system for a signed
> language to interpret German.
>
>
> Charles Butler
> chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
> 240-764-5748
> Clear writing moves business forward.
>
> --- On *Mon, 10/17/11, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Re: AW: Mundbilder in der GebaerdenSchrift
> To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> Date: Monday, October 17, 2011, 9:52 AM
>
>
> From this message, I see we are understanding each other, your system is
> used for Deaf chlidren to learn to read and interpret and write spoken
> German and translate from German sign language into proper spoken or written
> German.
>
> As a bridge system, it is doing its job.
>
> I am now looking at ASL written in SW without and independent of an English
> translation, written to be ASL as ASL not as a pidgin English on the hands
> to be translated into English for the hearing and speaking English
> population. The purposes are different.
>
> However, most educators in the US are looking at teaching English to the
> Deaf and though communicating with the Deaf in ASL they are looking at
> getting the Deaf to understand and read and write spoken English. The
> purpose of the classroom is to teach English, not to examine and honor ASL
> in its own right as its own language.
>
> So, ASL is still not an independent language, but a colonized language, one
> which is not a language "of the marketplace" with its own history, but one
> essentially secondary. We once had a newspaper in that language, assuming
> ASL as the first and only language of a Deaf population.
>
> I tried to teach SW to a class of Deaf educators in Ohio. Their ONLY
> argument was "why should I teach SW to ANY Deaf children when what I want to
> do is teach them ENGLISH", not some other writing system. "They", the Deaf
> children", don't have time to learn another writing system on top of
> English.
>
> They'd undersstand your GebaerdenSchrift because its only purpose is to
> teach German to Deaf kids, not be used as an everyday common writing system
> for Deaf Germans whose only language is German Sign Language.
>
> Charles Butler
> chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
> 240-764-5748
> Clear writing moves business forward.
>
> --- On *Mon, 10/17/11, Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann at GOOGLEMAIL.COM>*wrote:
>
>
> From: Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann at GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
> Subject: AW: Mundbilder in der GebaerdenSchrift
> To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> Date: Monday, October 17, 2011, 9:35 AM
>
> ...
>
> [Message clipped]




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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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