[Sw-l] Six SignWriting Topics, Topic 5, Writing Torso & Body Movement

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List,
November 17, 2022

Thank you Professor Reubens for your interest in the history of the International Movement Writing Alphabet (IMWA) and the International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA). The IMWA was wonderful in many respects because all the symbols were put together for you. But there were a lot of symbols and so in 2008 Steve and Adam and I worked together on preparing an ISWA 2008 and then later improvements were made and we presented the ISWA 2010, which is now the world standard, and there is no going back because software programs around the world are built on the ISWA 2010, including Unicode.

That doesn’t mean that we cannot write with the symbols for mime and gesture which were taken away, it just means that the symbols need to be constructed, either written by hand or pieced together by computer in graphics programs or in other software.

Sometimes I regret that we do not have some of the symbols from Movement Writing in the ISWA for writing gesture and mime and sign language theater, but we can still construct them, and if you know the symbols they are there for you.

I am still working on the headers of the new PDF I will post documenting every symbol in the IMWA, so it is not ready yet, but it will be in a few days. However, here are some links that might be of interest right now:

IMWA 1995-2004-2007 and ISWA 2008 & 2010

Sutton’s SymbolBank
https://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/


IMWA 1995 - 2004 - 2007
https://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/IMWA2004/


Writing Gesture Research
Craftsman Gestures from Norway
https://www.movementwriting.org/science/


Sutton SportsWriting
https://www.movementwriting.org/sports/


Gymnastics
https://www.movementwriting.org/sports/gymnastics/


Ice Skating
https://www.movementwriting.org/sports/iceskating/


SkateBoarding
https://www.movementwriting.org/sports/skateboarding/


Karate
https://www.movementwriting.org/sports/karate/



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Val ;-)

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> On Nov 16, 2022, at 11:38 AM, Profo Rubens Almeida <rubens.escritadesinais at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hello Val!
> Your video demonstrating the construction of the Spine Ripple using SignMaker in SignPuddle was very enlightening.
> Really, I didn't know that IMWA 2004 included symbols for writing dance and body gestures, and that later in 2010, with the new implementation of ISWA, some of these symbols had to be removed, due to Unicode, this information is very valuable for the historical record.
> The PDF with the symbols and the video helped me a lot. Again, thank you very much for the valuable clarifications, Val ;-)
> Hug!
> 
> Em qua., 16 de nov. de 2022 às 14:24, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> escreveu:
> SignWriting List
> November 16, 2022
> 
> Video showing constructing Spinal Undulation
> with SignMaker in SignPuddle, using ISWA 2010…
> 
> https://youtu.be/P-dhyetVxVU
> 
> As you can see in this screen recording, we can construct with small symbols … you can find all kinds of little lines and arrows that you need
> 
> Val ;-)


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