[Sw-l] Dynamics and their meaning

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
January 27, 2022

Hi Uta and Steve, and everyone on the SignWriting List:

Thank you for bringing Dynamic Symbols into discussion. They are very important symbols. And Steve has described them so well that you probably don't even need more input but I could tell you a little bit about why the symbols were developed the way they are.

Plus there are many documents on the web created by writers discussing Dynamic Symbols. For example if you go to signwriting.org, on the front page, you will notice a search field. Put in the word “dynamics" and search signwriting.org and you will find a long listing of documents discussing the use of Dynamic Symbols.

For example here is a document by Natasha Escalada Westland. Thank you, Natasha!

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/symposium/sws0009_Lesson_11_SignWriting_in_Classrooms_2003-2014_Escalada_Westland.pdf

I will create a lesson on the Tension Symbol and post it soon. You may feel you already know it well, but actually the Tension Symbol is one of the most dynamc and versatile symols in SignWriting. And its versatility is what makes it so useful, for all movement writing...

Val ;-)

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> On Jan 27, 2022, at 6:00 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi Uta,
> 
> I'm making a new thread for this discussion and opening it up to the group.
> 
> Category 3 of the ISWA 2010 is the dynamics.
> Here is the text used to describe this category.
> 
> 'Dynamics Symbols are used to give the "feeling" or "tempo" to movement. They provide emphasis on a movement or expression, and combined with Punctuation Symbols become the equivalent to Exclamation Points. The Tension Symbol, combined with Contact Symbols, provides the feeling of "pressure", and combined with facial expressions can place emphasis or added feeling to an expression. Timing symbols are used to show alternating or simultaneous movement.'
> 
> 
> 
> The "Tense" symbol adds a feeling to the sign.
> 
> The whole sign would need to be considered to understand if the hand stops after movement, or if the hand is moved under tension, or if the hand doesn't move.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> On 1/26/22 11:51 PM, Uta Meißner wrote:
>> To the sign ~
>> 
>> I know that ~ has several meanings:
>> 
>> - Hand stops after movement
>> - Hand is moved under tension
>> - Hand doesn't move
>> 
>> And I don't like 
>> 
>> I don't like this fact because it's important because of the sign search that each symbol has only one meaning. Therefore we decided to choose the 3rd meaning because that seems to us to be the most important. For 2-hand. There are 5 properties. One of them is a resting hand. Since the information is unimportant for own but right hand, we have agreed that symbol ~  property "resting recessive hand" to order. 
>> 
>> So, now you know my motivation for why we solved it this way. 
>> My feeling tells me it's not a good way to make our own rules. 
>> 
>> 
>> Therefore, take a step back:
>> Why does a symbol have multiple meanings? What are the advantages? 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Uta
>> 
> 
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