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Systèmes graphématiques et écritures des langues signées.

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Signata, Signatures: (essais en) sémiotique de l’écriture (9): 391-426 (2018)
DOI: 10.4000/signata.1684

Abstract

Graphemic systems and writing of Sign languages In the last years, many ways have been explored to write Sign Languages (LS) through the invention of notation systems. The presentation of three of them allows explaining certain choices, which may open the question of their taxonomic hybridization. The LS and their writings recall in their production the same articulators (upper body) and in their reception the same visual mode: these circumstances of unprecedented sharing put writing and orality co-existence, where scripturality may arise from formal and gestural intrinsic dimensions of orality and expression of LS. This potential is variously implemented by these writing systems, which raises questions about the implications of updating the writing systems to each other. Some systems, like SignWriting, try a pictorial analogy between the glyph and what it represents; others, like Typannot, tend to exploit the sign weaving as dynamic. The multilinearity of LS remains a challenge, due to the complexity of the registers to be represented. From these constraints, an overview of the writings of LS is presented, with an interdisciplinary approach that combines linguistics, typography and calligraphy.

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