idea for SW book

[Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway]

Hi Stefan - Great!
Hope you and your boys are well! Take any especially nice pictures this
winter?

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann <
stefanwoehrmann at gebaerdenschrift.de> wrote:

>  Hi Erika, ****
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> ... would be fun! ****
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> Stefan****
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> *Von:* SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:
> SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] *Im Auftrag **von *Erika
> Hoffmann-Dilloway
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 14. Januar 2013 22:51
> *An:* SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> *Betreff:* Re: idea for SW book****
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> By the way, I'm interested in as many texts as people are willing to make
> - so if there are multiple ASL or BSL or LIBRAS (or any other language)
> versions that's just fine! It would just add more interesting data for
> comparison and discussion! ****
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <
> erhoffma at oberlin.edu> wrote:****
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> Thanks Charles, I was hoping you'd be interested! :)****
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com>
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> l'd love to do something for this. Working back and forth with both ASL
> and LIBRAS would be fun. I'm going to learn a great deal in Brazil, and I
> have transcribed articles for Valerie and for Wikipedia.
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> Charles Butler
> chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
> 240-764-5748
> Clear writing moves business forward.
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> --- On *Mon, 1/14/13, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <erhoffma at OBERLIN.EDU>*wrote:
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> From: Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <erhoffma at OBERLIN.EDU>
> Subject: Re: idea for SW book
> To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> Date: Monday, January 14, 2013, 2:46 PM****
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> Thanks Chris! That's great! I'd love for you to participate and I'll make
> sure to keep you in the loop as a plan solidifies.
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:43 PM, chris farman <chrissignstar at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=chrissignstar@gmail.com>>
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> Hey, ****
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> That sounds like a fantastic chapter and I would love to help take part in
> that. I use BSL in SW and do not have much exposuer to this kind of
> observation as here in the UK SW is not very well known. However i am
> currently writing a learning manual for SW it would be very interesting to
> see the same pharagraph translated. ****
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> Feel free to email/update me as you wish. ****
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> Chris ****
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <
> erhoffma at oberlin.edu <http://mc/compose?to=erhoffma@oberlin.edu>> wrote:**
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> Hi all! As some of you know, I am (slowly) working on a book about SW –
> its development and use across different international sites (including the
> transnational listserv). As part of this research I’ve traveled to visit
> Valerie and some other list members, such as Stefan and Maria. I’d love to
> visit everyone on the list (at least, every one who was willing!) but
> unfortunately my limited funding won’t allow that. Still, I really want as
> many interested SignWriters as possible to participate in the book. To that
> end, I have an idea and I’m curious what you all think about it.****
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> What if we selected some kind of passage that all of you who were willing
> could translate into your respective sign language and write up using SW? I
> could devote a chapter of the book to these different texts, which would
> allow for a comparison across both different sign languages and different
> ways of using SW. Each writer could perhaps reflect on the choices they
> made in translating and writing their document, including perhaps how their
> backgrounds/goals affect these choices. And perhaps participants could also
> provide their own thoughts about what we can learn from the comparison of
> these texts. ****
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> This is just my initial idea – if you have other ideas please let me know!
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> Thanks!
> Erika
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> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Oberlin College ****
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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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