[Sw-l] QUESTION: Detailed Location Symbols

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 20, 2022

Hello Rubens and everyone on the SignWriting List,

I love this video, Rubens! Thank you for making it - I am still studying it and enjoying it. I will write again later with comments, but I am grateful for your documentation of these rare symbols on video:

https://youtu.be/Y5wRMSNZgYs



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> On May 19, 2022, at 5:53 PM, Profo Rubens Almeida <rubens.escritadesinais at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hi Valerie and everyone from the SignWriting List,
> 
> This is a subject that is rarely discussed in our groups here in Brazil, due to its use in more specific areas and because it is not part of our daily lives, but recently, a fellow user of the SignWriting system asked me this question. I already knew about this category, but I wanted to delve deeper, thanks to the guidelines and forwarding of Valerie's book, I resolved some doubts.
> 
> I managed to record a video to briefly explain the detailed location category, and I would like to share it with you❗😊
> 
> The video lasts for almost 18 minutes, because I tried to explain it with examples through the "SignSpelling" sequence, in order to help in the understanding of its use in practice. Although the video was recorded in Libras with translation into Portuguese, you can activate YouTube's automatic subtitles.
> 
> Here's the video link:
> 
> https://youtu.be/Y5wRMSNZgYs
> 
>  
> I am open to corrections and further guidance on this category. 😉
> 
> Hugs!
> 
> Rubens Almeida.
> 
> 
> Em qua., 18 de mai. de 2022 às 21:25, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> escreveu:
> SignWriting List
> May 18, 2022
> 
> I received this question on Messenger:
> 
> Hello Valerie!
> 
> QUESTION:
> Where can I find more information about:
> 
> Category 6: Detailed Location?
> https://www.signbank.org/iswa/37f/37f_bs.html
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> … in ISWA I have some information, but I would like to understand better with examples.
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> ANSWER:
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> The symbols you are referring to, are not used to write signs for everyday use.
> 
> Detailed Location Symbols are used by researchers who need a way to document detailed location information.
> 
> Dictionary writers sometimes need to use Detailed Location Symbols for the SignSpelling Sequences needed to sort signs in long lists by computer. Some signs may use the same hand and movement symbols, but only differ in their location, close or far, depth, maybe the sign is located behind your back, and other details that might differentiate the signs by their location but are otherwise written the same as other signs.
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> So when sorting signs by computer the Detailed Location Symbols are needed to show where the sign is located in relation to the center of the body.
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> Here is a document:
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> SignWriting Location Symbols
> https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0146-Location-Symbols.pdf
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