Announcing NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS, First Edition

Wed Oct 7 21:16:15 UTC 2009

SignWriting List
October 7, 2009

Hello Tim!
Yes, you are right, it is the same director of the first dictionary  
project, Dr. Fernando Capovilla, who is also spearheading this new  
version, which is similar but with additional changes and  
improvements. If you go to:

SignWriting in Brazil
http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/

the old and wonderful project, which was and is an amazing  
publication...it includes two large Encyclopedia Dictionary volumes  
that are absolutely huge...To read about those volumes, go to the  
above web page, under numbers 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 (scroll  
down)...

One of the best web pages to go to is:
http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/brazil21.html

I will ask Fernando about the CD version for you or you can write  
directly to him...his email is below...Meanwhile, my announcement  
today is about a totally new set of volumes that will be published  
this November 2009...

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On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Timothy W. Grove wrote:

> Thanks for announcing this, Valerie. Exciting!!! Is this related to  
> the "Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary project" which I've seen  
> described at  http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/brazil06.html ? That  
> article mentioned a CDROM version, which I was trying to locate, if  
> available?
>
> Best regards,
> Tim

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> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> October 7, 2009
>>
>> ANNOUNCING!
>>
>> NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS, First Edition
>> A brand new Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary, which includes  
>> SignWriting. It will be published and available for purchase in one  
>> month, November 2009. To order in advance, or for more information,  
>> contact:
>>
>> Fernando Capovilla, PhD, Livre Docente
>> Professor, Instituto de Psicologia, USP
>> Av. Prof. Melo de Morais 1721
>> São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, BRAZIL
>> fcapovilla at gmail.com
>>
>> The new NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS Dictionary contains 2,500 pages  
>> distributed in two beautiful large hardcover volumes. It contains  
>> an expanded lexicon of 10,000 signs from all Brazilian geographic  
>> regions, all of them signwritten.
>>
>> I understand from Dr. Capovilla, that the dictionary explains  
>> research on a brand new and revolutionary paradigm on sign language  
>> lexicography based on cognitive neurosciences and neurolinguitics  
>> (instead of on mere linguistics) which includes a thorough analysis  
>> of morphological structure of Brazilian Sign Language and sign  
>> iconicity. In the paradigm, Dr. Capovilla explains why the new  
>> discoveries on prevalence of neurons in the cerebellum is so  
>> important to sign language lexicography and processing, which fits  
>> beautifully with right cerebral hemispheric processing when it  
>> comes to sign metaphors. The paradigm restitutes the broken line of  
>> sound sign language lexicography which was inaugurated by the very  
>> first sign language dictionaries of the world. The dictionary  
>> contains over 50,000 illustrations (most of them delightfully  
>> humorous in order to engage right cerebral hemisphere processing).
>>
>> Work on a 2nd edition of NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS has already begun. It  
>> will include 1,600 brand new signs and will add 7,000 new entries.  
>> The second edition is projected to be published 2011-2012.
>>
>> More examples from the First Edition of NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS will  
>> follow shortly. I am working on a new posting about the NOVO DEIT- 
>> LIBRAS publication. I really look forward to seeing these beautiful  
>> published volumes in November!
>>
>> Thank you, Fernando, for the amazing work you do in Brazil!
>>
>> Please see Artcover attached. This is the front cover, spine and  
>> back cover all in one piece... Val ;-)
>>
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