SW-L Digest, Vol 32, Issue 13

Fri Mar 5 21:20:31 UTC 2010

Dear Valerie and colleagues,
Thank you very much for helping us let people know about it.
We now have a corpus of 16,000 Brazilian Sign Language Signs written
in SignWriting.
We are preparing the 2nd edition with additional 6,000 signs (all medical
specialties, all illnesses, all major concepts of Physics, Biology, Math,
Language, Education, History, Geography,Environment, Ecology, Economy,
 etc.). At the same time we are preparing the final volumes of the
Encyclopedia which shall contain results of the language assessment of 8,000
deaf students from kindergarten to college in several language measures
(from sign comprehension to alphabetical reading and spelling to orofacial
reading). Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
Fernando

---------- Mensagem encaminhada ----------
From: "Fernando Capovilla" <fcapovilla at gmail.com>
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:14:10 -0300
Subject: [sw-l] New Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary based on new
Cognitive Neurosciences Paradigm now available

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am writing to communicate that the monumental NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS:
> ENCYCLOPEDIC ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE BASED ON
> COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES (2.460 pages, 2 volumes,
> hardcover, paper chamois fine dunas, font bookman old style 7-8) has been
> finally released by The University of Sao Paulo Press. It brings 9,828
> independent sign entries, 14,000 Portuguese glosses, 60,000 English glosses.
>
> Each sign entry provides a sign form illustration, a sign form description
> (on both cheremic and morphemic levels), a SignWriting rendition, a sign
> meaning illustration, a sign meaning description, the Portuguese gloss
> written both in alphabet and digital spelling, the English gloss, grammar
> classification, an example of usage in a phrase, description of sign
> morphological structure, description of sign iconicity (how meaning inspires
> form), sign geographical validity (the Brazilian states in which each sign
> is valid and currently used - there is a total of 23,850 geographical
> references for all Brazilian regions).
>
>
> In addition to that NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS: ENCYCLOPEDIC ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY
> OF BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE BASED ON COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE
> NEUROSCIENCES brings several special chapters:
> 1) a chapter that teaches how to read and write Brazilian Sign Language
> signs using SignWriting,
>
> 2) a chapter on Brazilian Sign Morphology that fully explains and
> illustrates 34 molecular metaphorical morphemes that combinate to generate
> 982 signs, and 595 molar metaphorical morphemes,
>
> 3) a chapter on the neuropsycholinguistics processes involved in the
> scientific behavior of analyzing sign morphological structure
> 4) a chapter explaining the theoretical bases of the new paradigm of sign
> lexicography based on Cognitive Neurosciences that has been used to generate
> our NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS: ENCYCLOPEDIC ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF BRAZILIAN SIGN
> LANGUAGE BASED ON COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES
> The NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS: ENCYCLOPEDIC ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF BRAZILIAN SIGN
> LANGUAGE BASED ON COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES can be
> ordered via the site below.
>
> http://www.edusp.com.br/detlivro.asp?id=31411786
>
> Because production has been subsidized by government, we managed to make
> this ground-breaking dictionary incredibly affordable. The regular cover
> price would be about R$ 800,00. However, it is being offered for only R$
> 220,00. In addition, Brazilian teachers are entitled to purchase it for just
> R$ 110,00.
> Our old ENCYCLOPEDIC ILLUSTRATED BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARY
> (Capovilla & Raphael, 2001) has been distributed to 70,000 Brazilian deaf
> children. Now our purpose is to distribute our brand new NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS:
> ENCYCLOPEDIC ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE BASED ON
> COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES (Capovilla, Raphael,
> Mauricio, 2009) to each and every Brazilian deaf child. There are 6 million
> deaf and hard of hearing people in this country, and we would love reaching
> each and everyone of them, giving them a hand as a sign of love for what
> they are and hope for a better future. I am counting on you, friends and
> colleagues, to spread the good word and the good sign about this good news.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fernando Capovilla
>
> http://www.edusp.com.br/detlivro.asp?id=31411786
>
>
>
> ---------- Mensagem encaminhada ----------
> From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
> To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:41:24 -0800
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] New Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary based on new
> Cognitive Neurosciences Paradigm now available
> SignWriting List
> March 5, 2010
>
> Hello Fernando!
>
> Many CONGRATULATIONS!   This is really an accomplishment...The books look
> beautiful!
>
> The new Brazilian publication NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS, in a set of two volumes,
> contains 9,828 sign entries, including SignWriting for each sign, as well as
> illustrations, spoken language glosses and linguistic information....I hope
> everyone reads the detailed description below...I will be happy to create a
> web page on the SignWriting Site about this new publication...THANK YOU for
> informing us...and congratulations once again - Val ;-)
>
>
>  http://www.edusp.com.br/detlivro.asp?id=31411786
>
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