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Thank you! Very interesting! On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:51 PM, André L <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to add complexity relative to left handed people... > > In Tae kwon do and Aikido (martial arts), a long time ago, I was taught to > not have a preferred side, both should be equals. > > I am right handed. I work a lot with computer and have pain to my right > hand. > I studied Québec sign language 3 years ago. I chose my left hand has my > dominant hand for signing. (I can easily swap hands for signing.) > > When I studied signwritting in March 2013, I copied my right handed > teacher signs from a receptive perspective, I had no time to process the > sign. Signwritting is not easy for a beginner and my teacher do not let > time for taking notes. > > After, at home, I wrote as a left handed person from the expressive > perspective for my personal notes. Then I shared copies of my personal > notes with right handed friends. I swaped to writing as a right handed > person. > > Since 1 month, I add signs to sign puddle. > I write the signs from a right handed person from the expressive > perspective. > > Before writting a sign, I watch a video from the receptive perspective. > Then, I do the sign with the right hand. I watch it from the expressive > perspective. After, I write it as a right handed would do. I project the > image of my right hand on the screen. > > Sometimes, I write very naturally a sign that I see . I was under the > impression that I may write from a left handed receptive perspective... > by-passing all the swapping I mentionned above. > > > Good success with your semester. > > André Lemyre > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:39:14 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: productive/receptive writing question > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Hi everyone! I'm going to be giving a paper at our annual anthropology > meetings this fall on a panel about how to best represent visual aspects of > linguistic phenomena. > I want to talk about the shift from receptive to productive writing in SW. > I'm going to suggest that there are interesting theoretical and > methodological lessons in this shift for scholars who want to transcribe > visual aspects of communication, even if they aren't using SW per se > (though I also want to make more scholars in my field aware of how useful > SW can be for this purpose). > To that end, I was wondering if list members might be willing to talk with > me about their feelings about productive writing with SW. Did you initially > write receptively? If so, how did you shift? (or do you still write > receptively sometimes?). How do you feel that writing productively affects > the way you choose to write (or how you read other people's writing)? > I'd love to hear answers to these questions and anything else you think is > relevant about this aspect of SW, particularly as it relates to your own > ways of using the writing system (for teaching, for research, for > translation, for poetry, etc). > The conference isn't until November, but I wanted to get started on it > now, before the semester kicks in! > Best, > Erika > > -- > Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway > Assistant Professor of Anthropology > Oberlin College > -- Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Assistant Professor of Anthropology Oberlin College