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A word in capitals standing as a label for a sign, not a translation of it.
Also known as: Glossing, Sign gloss notation, Capitalised sign notation
A gloss writes a sign as a word in capital letters. The capitals are the convention: they mark the word as a *label* for a sign rather than a translation of it, so a glossed line is not a sentence in English and cannot be read as one. Additional marks carry grammar the capitals cannot — a line above for a facial expression that grammatically marks a question, hyphens where one sign needs several English words, and subscripts for the space a sign is directed towards.
Labels a sign with an English word in capitals rather than translating it, so a glossed line is not an English sentence and reading it as one misrepresents both languages.
Contexts: History, Public information
Carries grammar in marks around the capitals: a line drawn above a stretch of glosses shows a facial expression that grammatically marks a question or a topic, hyphens join the several English words one sign needs, and subscripts record the space a sign is directed towards.
Contexts: History, Public information
Is a research and teaching convention rather than a writing system. It exists to discuss signs in a text, and no signing community writes its language this way in ordinary life.
Contexts: History, Public information
A line of words set entirely in capitals, some joined by short horizontal strokes, with a continuous line drawn above part of the row and small letters set below it.
One labels signs in English text; the other is a script for the signed language itself.
Both are ways of representing signing in another medium.