[Sw-l] Head Positions: Face Direction Lines

Tue Aug 17 16:09:03 UTC 2021

Hi! Valerie and everyone! I'm excited about it. Face directions, it's so
interesting. I would like to know more about it.
Melquiedes.

Em ter, 17 de ago de 2021 10:39, André Thibeault <atg at videotron.ca>
escreveu:

> Hello Val and everyone,
>
> An illustration helps me understand the symbol below.
>
>
>
> Do you have facial directions and head positions with illustrations below?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> André
>
> De : Valerie Sutton <sutton at DANCEWRITING.ORG>
> Répondre à : "SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages" <
> SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU>
> Date : Sun, 15 Aug 2021 11:19:06 -0700
> À : <SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU>
> Objet : Head Positions: Face Direction Lines
>
> SignWriting List
> August 15, 2021
>
> Hello Josenilson, Ae, Suzanne, and everyone -
>
> It is good we are talking about this. Thank you, Ae, for posting
> DanceWriting documents. A new topic of discussion has emerged: Writing Head
> Positions and Head Movements, which are needed when we write mime, dance,
> sign languages, and sports and body language too.
>
> The symbols that are in the attached diagram are Head Positions. They are
> static positions, written with a little line, called the “Face Direction
> Line”, placed on the Shoulder Line, showing the direction of the nose.
>
> Head Movements are written differently, usually with Head Circles. We can
> discuss Head Movements in another thread.
>
> Face Direction Lines (Head Positions) are explained on these links:
>
> 1. Lessons in SignWriting Textbook, page 176.
> https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf
>
> 2. Writing Full Body Movement: Face Direction Line
> https://www.movementwriting.org/lessons/fullbody/fullbody07.html
>
> 3. Learn To Transcribe Sign Language in SignWriting
> https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/scribe003.html
> https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/scribe004.html
> https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/scribe005.html
> https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/scribe006.html (Face
> Direction Lines)
> https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/scribe007.html (Face
> Direction Lines)
> https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/scribe008.html (Face
> Direction Lines)
>
> …and then I never finished the lessons… but more can always be added…
>
>
> 4. ISWA 2010 Reference Manual
> Category 4: Head and Face
> https://www.signbank.org/iswa/2ff_sg.html
> Scroll down to see BaseSymbols 520, 521 and 522. So many symbols!
>
> Keep asking questions!
>
> Val ;-)
>
> ---------------
>
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2021, at 5:46 PM, Josenilson da Silva Mendes <jsm88b at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Valerie and everyone on SignWriting List!
>
> This is very good!
>
>
>
> Where can I find out more about facial directions and head position
> with illustrations?
>
> Josenilson Mendes
>
>
> Em sáb., 14 de ago. de 2021 às 14:25, Suzanne Pach <suzannepach at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> Thanks Val and Ae for the explanation. Very interesting :)
>>
>> Suzanne
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 11:06 PM Valerie Sutton <
>> 0000001342802f5f-dmarc-request at listserv.valenciacollege.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> August 9, 2021
>>>
>>> Thank you, Suzanne and Ae, for this discussion. It is fun to think about
>>> why this happened. To explain:
>>>
>>> Ae is correct. DanceWriting started first, and at that time, in the
>>> early 1970s, ballet was and is still very stylized. Facial expressions and
>>> even head movements were not as important as the rest of the body, and so,
>>> by placing the Head Circle to the left or right of the rest of the body on
>>> the 5-lined staff, we could write classical ballet on a 5-lined staff,
>>> under the music notes or counts, without our Head Circle in the way of the
>>> rhythm.
>>>
>>> I realize this is surprising to those who write sign languages, like we
>>> do today, but here are some examples of the writing at that time, in
>>> Denmark in the 1970s. There were no personal computers yet, no cell phones,
>>> no digitizing fast, and so by hand it was easier to write this way: See
>>> diagrams attached. We used wax transfer sheets. The Facial Direction Line
>>> was easy to write by hand like a little line crossing the shoulders showing
>>> the direction of the nose:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ______________
>>
>>
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