Interview with Valerie Sutton

[Susanne Trumpold]

hey erika!! :-)
oh yes, i am totally interested in your article!! thank you, yes, germany is pretty nice! unfortunately i have never been in the united states. would love to see for example all these national parks, i know from tv :-D
good luck for your article!
don't know if it is the same in engkish, but i squeeze my thumbs, means the same: good luck! ;-)

 Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <erhoffma at OBERLIN.EDU> schrieb:

>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 ;-)
>>
>> ---------
>>
>>
>> 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 ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Valerie Sutton
>> SignWriting List moderator
>> sutton at signwriting.org
>>
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>
>
>-- 
>Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
>Assistant Professor of Anthropology
>Oberlin College
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