LINGUIST List 17.2482
Tue Sep 05 2006
Confs: Sign Lang, Writing Systems/Czech Republic
Editor for this issue: Jeremy Taylor
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1. Valerie
Sutton,
SignWriting Workshop for Writing Any Sign Language
Message 1: SignWriting Workshop for Writing Any Sign Language
Date: 03-Sep-2006
From: Valerie Sutton <suttonsignwriting.org>
Subject: SignWriting Workshop for Writing Any Sign Language
SignWriting Workshop for Writing Any Sign Language
Date: 17-Sep-2006 - 18-Sep-2006
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Contact: Valerie Sutton
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.signwriting.org/czech/czech01.html
Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems
Language Family(ies): Sign Language
Meeting Description:
SignWriting Workshop in the Czech Republicwill take place in Prague on the 17th and 18th of September, 2006,at the Czech Union of the Deaf, Dlouha street no 37, Prague.
SignWriting Workshop in the Czech Republic will take place in Prague on the 17th and 18th of September, 2006, at the Czech Union of the Deaf, Dlouha street no 37, Prague.
Workshop Registration To register for the workshop, go to this web page: http://sw.ruce.cz/workshop/
Workshop Programme 1. History of SignWriting 2. Introduction to Symbols 3. Writing Rules 4. Reading SignWriting Literature
Workshop Presenters The workshop will be lead by two Deaf presenters: Lucyna Dlugolecka from Poland and Thierry Haesenne from French-Belgium.
Lucyna Dlugolecka works as a multi-lingual translator, writing several articles in Polish about SignWriting, while working as an editor for the Swiat Ciszy Deaf Magazine in Warsaw (http://signwriting.org/poland/). At the University of Warsaw, Lucyna's dissertation is on linguistics, using SignWriting. Lucyna teaches hearing students Polish Sign Language and SignWriting at the University of Warsaw as well.
Thierry Haesenne works with linguistics, Sign Language interpreting, Sign Language curriculum in Deaf schools, and in the past year has worked together with a team to establish SignWriting in schools for Deaf children throughout French-Belgium, as well as posting a new web site that records signs from several dialects of French-Belgian Sign Language in SignWriting (http://www.lsfb.be/signaire/ztous/).
Workshop Organizers The workshop is being presented in partnership with the ESWO (European SignWriting Organisation, http://eswo.eu/) and CUN Praha (Czech Union of the Deaf - Prague, http://www.cun.cz/), where it is taking place. (Dlouha street no 37, Prague).
Workshop information:
Email: sw-workshopruce.cz
SignWriting CZ http://sw.ruce.cz/
Workshop Web Page http://sw.ruce.cz/workshop/
Registration Form http://sw.ruce.cz/workshop/regform.php
Other related information:
SignWriting in the Czech Republic http://www.SignWriting.org/czech
SignWriting in Poland http://www.SignWriting.org/poland
SignWriting in Belgium http://www.SignWriting.org/belgium
SignWriting in Europe http://www.SignWriting.org/europe
European SignWriting Organisation http://eswo.eu
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