SignWriting article posted on Brazilian LIBRAS web site ...

Wed Apr 4 16:40:04 UTC 2012

SignWriting List
April 4, 2012

Yuri Barreto told me about this article posted on March 25, 2012, on a Brazilian web site for LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language), www.libras.com.br . Thank you, Yuri, for informing us…and many thanks to the libras.com.br web site:

Go to:
http://www.libras.com.br/web/signwriting/signwriting-dp1

Here is thePortuguese, and the English translation which I placed in Google… see below

-------------

Portuguese

SignWriting

Publicado em Domingo, 25 Março 2012 17:21 | Acessos: 133
4 Comments

SignWriting (escrita gestual, ou escrita de sinais) é um sistema de escrita das línguas gestuais (no Brasil, línguas de sinais). SignWriting expressa os movimentos as forma das mãos, as marcas não-manuais e os pontos de articulação. Foi desenvolvida em 1974 por Valerie Sutton, uma dançarina, que havia, dois anos antes, desenvolvido a DanceWriting. Foi, então, na Dinamarca registada a primeira página de uma longa história: a criação de um sistema de escrita de línguas gestuais. Conforme os registos feitos pela Valerie Sutton na homepage do SignWriting, em 1974, a Universidade de Copenhaga solicitou a Sutton que registasse os gestos gravados em vídeo. As primeiras formas foram inspiradas no sistema escrito de danças.

Embora não tenha sido o primeiro sistema de escrita para línguas gestuais, a SignWriting foi a primeira que conseguiu representar adequadamente as expressões faciais e as nuances de postura do gestuante, ou a incluir informações como, por exemplo, se a frase é longa ou curta. É o único sistema que é usado em base regular, por exemplo, para publicar informações universitárias em ASL (American Sign Language).

Em 1977, o Dr. Judy Shepard-Kegl organizou o primeiro workshop sobre SignWriting para a Sociedade de Lingüística de New England, nos Estados Unidos. Nesse ano, o primeiro grupo de surdos adultos a aprender o sistema foi um grupo do Teatro Nacional de Surdos, em Connecticut. A primeira história escrita em SignWriting publicada foi: "Goldilocks and the three bears". Em 1978, as primeiras aulas em vídeo foram editadas. Em 1979, Valerie Sutton trabalhou com uma equipa do Instituto Técnico Nacional para Surdos, em Rochester, prestando assistência na elaboração de uma série de panfletos, chamados The Techinical Signs Manual, que usaram ilustrações em SignWriting.

Na década de 1980, Sutton apresentou um trabalho, no Simpósio Nacional em Pesquisa e Ensino da Língua de Sinais, intitulado Uma "Forma de analisar a ASL e qualquer outra língua gestual sem passar pela tradução da língua alada". Depois disso, SignWriting começou desenvolver-se cada vez mais. De um sistema escrito à mão,passou a um sistema possível de ser escrito no computador.

Através do computador, a SignWriting começou a tornar-se muito mais popular nos Estados Unidos. O sistema evoluiu ao longo dos anos, não mais tendo a forma como foi criado, em 1974. 

Antigamente, usuários da língua gestual não tinham como escrever na sua própria língua. Isto quer dizer que para escrever usam o português escrito, a sua segunda língua. Nesta língua encontram muitas dificuldades de expressão. A produção escrita dos surdos é quase inexistente, limita-se a comunicações básicas efetuadas com dificuldade. Na leitura, por norma, mesmo depois de muitos anos de escolaridade, a compreensão é limitada. Com a SignWriting, existe a possibilidade de os Surdos escreverem no seu próprio idioma, sem terem de usar uma língua oral. Abaixo um mapa que mostra o uso do SignWriting por diversos países, inclusive no Brasil. O Dicionário Enciclopédico Ilustrado Trilíngue - Deit-Libras, dos autores Fernando César Capovilla, Walkiria Duarte Raphael e Aline Cristina L. Maurício é uma importante publicação sobre o assunto no Brasil.

FONTE: Wikipedia, SignWriting.org

English
------------

English Translation in Google Translate

SignWriting
Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2012 17:21 | Hits: 133
4 Comments

SignWriting (written sign, signed or written) is a writing system of sign languages (in Brazil, sign languages). SignWriting expressed as the movements of the hands, the marks non-manual and points of articulation. Was developed in 1974 by Valerie Sutton, a dancer, who had two years earlier, developed DanceWriting. She was then in Denmark registered the first page of a long history: the creation of a writing system for sign languages. As the entries made by Valerie Sutton SignWriting on the homepage, in 1974, the University of Copenhagen asked Sutton to record an gestures were videotaped. The first forms were inspired by the writing system dances.

Although not the first writing system for sign languages, the SignWriting was the first that could adequately represent the facial expressions and nuances of posture gesturing, or include information such as, for example, if the sentence is long or short. It is the only system that is used on a regular basis, for example, to publish information university in ASL (American Sign Language). 

 In 1977, Dr. Judy Shepard-Kegl organized the first workshop on SignWriting Society of Linguistics New England in the United States. That same year, the first group of deaf adults to learn the system was a group of the National Theatre of the Deaf in Connecticut. The first story was published written in SignWriting: "Goldilocks and the three bears." In 1978, the first video lectures have been edited. In 1979, Valerie Sutton worked with a team from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, assisting in the preparation of a series of pamphlets called The Techinical Signs Manual, which used illustrations in SignWriting. 

 In the 1980s, Sutton presented a paper at the National Symposium on Research and Teaching Sign Language, entitled A "Form of analyzing the ASL and other sign language without going through spokene language translation." Thereafter, SignWriting began to develop more and more. As a handwritten system, the system can now be written in the computer. 

 Through the computer, SignWriting began to become much more popular in the United States. The system has evolved over the years, no longer with the way it was created in 1974. 
Previously, users of sign language were not writing in their own language. This means you use to write the written Portuguese, their second language. Encounter many difficulties in this language of expression. The written production of deaf people is almost nonexistent, limited to basic communications made with difficulty. In reading, as a rule, even after many years of education, understanding is limited. With SignWriting, the possibility exists for the Deaf write in your own language, without having to use an oral language. Below is a map that shows the use of SignWriting by several countries, including Brazil. The Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary Trilingual - deit, Pounds, author Cesar Fernando Capovilla, Raphael Duarte Walkiria and Aline Cristina L. Mauritius is an important publication on the subject in Brazil. 
 Source: Wikipedia, SignWriting.org 

--------------------

On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Yuri Barreto wrote:

> 
> Yuri Barreto posted in Signwriting - Brasil
> 	
> Yuri Barreto	6:12pm Apr 3
> Hi, Valerie Sutton! What you think about this (A brazilian site posted this in a March, 25!):
> 
> http://www.libras.com.br/web/signwriting/signwriting-dp1
> 	SignWriting
> www.libras.com.br
> SignWriting (escrita gestual, ou escrita de sinais) é um sistema de escrita das línguas gestuais (no...
> 
> View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.
> 

----------

Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
SignWriting List moderator
sutton at signwriting.org

Post Messages to the SignWriting List:
sw-l at listserv.valenciacollege.edu

SignWriting List Archives & Home Page
http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist

Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages
http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1

SignWriting
Read & Write Sign Languages
http://www.SignWriting.org

SignPuddle Online
Write SignWriting in the Clouds!
Documents, Dictionaries, SignMail
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle

SignWriting Wiki
Wiki-style Articles in Sign Languages
http://www.signbank.org/wiki

SignWriting List
Technical Support: Ask questions...
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist

SignWriting Literature Project
Writing Literature in Sign Languages
http://www.SignWriting.org/literature

SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects
Writing Encyclopedias in Sign Languages
http://www.SignWriting.org/encyclopedia

SignWriting Sponsors Forum
Help Educational Non-Profit Organization
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/sponsors

SignWriting Shop
Books, DVDs, Lessons, Services
http://www.SignWriting.org/shop

Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting
Center For Sutton Movement Writing
a US educational nonprofit organization
PO Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA
Tel: 858-456-0098  Skype: valeriesutton

SignWriting on Twitter
http://twitter.com/signwriting

SignWriting on YouTube
http://youtube.com/signwriting

SignWriting on Facebook
http://facebook.com/SignWriting

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20120404/80eaaa88/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 161775_609277901_971620406_q.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 2631 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20120404/80eaaa88/attachment.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: safe_image.php
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 2705 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20120404/80eaaa88/attachment.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: email_open_log_pic.php
Type: image/gif
Size: 43 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20120404/80eaaa88/attachment.gif>