Interview with Valerie Sutton

[Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway]

Hi Susi! Nice to "meet" you. I had the chance to visit Germany and observe
Stefan's classroom on two occasions. I wrote an article based on that
research which will be published in November. I will post it when it's
available, in case you are interested.
I enjoyed Germany so much, can't wait for a chance to visit again. :)


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com>wrote:

> SignWriting List
> September 19, 2013
>
> Hello Susi from Berlin!
>
> Welcome to the SignWriting List.
>
> Thank you for the Skype interview for your BA-Thesis, and for your
> transcript of that interview attached. It is a lot of work to transcribe a
> two-hour Skype conversation!
>
> Susi interviewed Stefan Wöhrmann in Germany, and me in the United States,
> on Skype. Her thesis shows a great deal of interest in SignWriting. Susi
> asked me why SignWriting has not spread faster? Why it isn't it better
> known? I feel very honored by the question, because it means that some
> would like it to spread faster…and that is a good thing!
>
> So I tried to present another perspective on the same question…which
> is…this is the first time in history, because of the internet, that we have
> a chance to establish the written form for sign languages..but that in
> previous centuries, because of the lack of the internet, other attempts
> could not take hold …that is takes centuries for writing systems to usually
> get used and that the spreading of SignWriting has happened faster than
> most writing systems, if one compares it to other scripts, such as the
> Roman Alphabet …which took centuries…
>
> I am sure this topic could be discussed forever…but what really is
> important is to just use SignWriting in your work - and the more we all use
> it, for a variety of reasons, the more it will spread naturally -
>
> Thank you, again Susi, for posting your transcript -
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Sep 19, 2013, at 12:49 AM, Susanne Trumpold <su-ski at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hey SignWriting List - members, Hey Valerie!
>
> For my BA-Thesis I had an interview with Valerie Sutton about the
> dissemniation of SignWriting by Valerie and the Centre for Sutton Movement
> Writing with focus on developments within the United States!
>
> We want to share the transcript with you now ... it is attached!
>
> Have a nice day!
>
> Susi from next to Berlin! :)
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> Val ;-)
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> Valerie Sutton
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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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