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Thanks Chris! That's great! I'd love for you to participate and I'll make sure to keep you in the loop as a plan solidifies. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:43 PM, chris farman <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hey, > > That sounds like a fantastic chapter and I would love to help take part in > that. I use BSL in SW and do not have much exposuer to this kind of > observation as here in the UK SW is not very well known. However i am > currently writing a learning manual for SW it would be very interesting to > see the same pharagraph translated. > > Feel free to email/update me as you wish. > > Chris > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi all! As some of you know, I am (slowly) working on a book about SW – >> its development and use across different international sites (including the >> transnational listserv). As part of this research I’ve traveled to visit >> Valerie and some other list members, such as Stefan and Maria. I’d love to >> visit everyone on the list (at least, every one who was willing!) but >> unfortunately my limited funding won’t allow that. Still, I really want as >> many interested SignWriters as possible to participate in the book. To that >> end, I have an idea and I’m curious what you all think about it. >> >> >> >> What if we selected some kind of passage that all of you who were willing >> could translate into your respective sign language and write up using SW? I >> could devote a chapter of the book to these different texts, which would >> allow for a comparison across both different sign languages and different >> ways of using SW. Each writer could perhaps reflect on the choices they >> made in translating and writing their document, including perhaps how their >> backgrounds/goals affect these choices. And perhaps participants could also >> provide their own thoughts about what we can learn from the comparison of >> these texts. >> >> >> >> This is just my initial idea – if you have other ideas please let me know! >> >> Thanks! >> Erika >> >> -- >> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway >> Assistant Professor of Anthropology >> Oberlin College > > > -- Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Assistant Professor of Anthropology Oberlin College