<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">April 5, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ANNOUNCING AN IMPORTANT JOURNAL and an invitation to submit articles...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are deadlines. Write to Jorge Bidarra ( <a href="mailto:Jorge.Bidarra@unioeste.br" class="">Jorge.Bidarra@unioeste.br</a> ). Contact information is below. (I will write more about this next message...)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">JOURNAL:</div><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><strong class=""><br class=""></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><strong class="">Focus: LANGUAGES OF SIGNS - CONQUESTS AND CHALLENGES</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><strong class=""></strong></div>The study of sign languages definitely came to establish in the second half of the twentieth century. The efforts of the linguists who worked in the 60s, 70s and 80s demonstrated the need to know the grammar of these languages and gave relevance to the problems that users have to develop with them a full life in communicative experiences. They have also made the scientific community realize that for the global and comprehensive understanding of human language it is imperative to pay attention to the linguistics field. Now, in the 21st century, this is not questioned. The current understanding of the structure and functioning of sign languages at both the discursive and grammatical levels is vast and profound. The same can be said about other issues requiring linguistic knowledge (bilingualism, language policy, first language acquisition or language deficit, for example). Nonetheless, Researchers dealing with these problems, already with high levels of expertise, continue to identify needs that require an approach to further ensure research success. This volume aims to identify some of these needs and problems faced by the scientific community involved in the study of sign languages.We intend with this thematic volume to open a discussion space, in such a way that through a retrospective look allows us to evaluate some of the achieved achievements. With this special edition we seek to gather articles whose contributions to the area are relevant, pointing out ways to future development of the topic addressed.<br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Some possible topics:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Present and future of corpus linguistics applied to sign languages</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Ethics and social responsibility (include the challenge of how to tackle data protection)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Challenges in bilingual education of deaf people</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Problems in defining grammatical units</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Description of sign language grammars</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- New challenges in language policy (beyond recognition of status, what to do for deaf people to see their recognized linguistic rights?)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Bilingual and monolingual dictionaries in the field of sign languages</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Studies of linguistic phenomena in the context of sign languages</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Historical trajectory and evolution of sign languages in the world and / or countries of use, over time.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" class="">Journal´s link</span>:<a href="http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/linguaseletras" class="">http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/linguaseletras</a></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class=""><a href="http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/linguaseletras/issue/archive" class="">http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/linguaseletras/issue/archive</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="LPBorder_GT_15436098184990.7987921581512529" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; width: 1006px;" class=""><table id="LPContainer_15436098184970.2462613768082117" role="presentation" cellspacing="0" style="width: 905.390625px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><td id="TextCell_15436098184970.5890298473045498" colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; position: relative;" class=""><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_15436098184970.9985716179974402" class=""></div><div id="LPTitle_15436098184970.9303995224177574" style="top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 120, 215); line-height: 21px;" class=""><a id="LPUrlAnchor_15436098184980.040125983552757316" href="http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/linguaseletras" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Línguas & Letras - e-revista.unioeste.br</font></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_15436098184980.9841977291800081" style="margin: 10px 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://e-revista.unioeste.br" class=""><font size="4" class="">e-revista.unioeste.br</font></a></div><div id="LPDescription_15436098184990.8367172599967211" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Publicação quadrimestral do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Unioeste — Campus de Cascavel. O projeto propõe-se a atender as especificidades da área de Letras e Linguística, tendo em vista as questões de ensino/aprendizagem de línguas, aquisição de 1ª e 2ª línguas, bilinguismo/línguas em contato, letramentos, questões de leitura e escrita, escolarização nos vários ...</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Please, let us know your response. Feel free to contact us!</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""> Best Regards, <br class=""></div><div class="">Professor Jorge Bidarra</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="mailto:Jorge.Bidarra@unioeste.br" class="">Jorge.Bidarra@unioeste.br</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Research Group on Brazilian Sign Language (PORLIBRAS))</div><div class="">State University of Western Paraná (UNIOESTE)</div><div class="">R. Universitária, 2069 - Jardim Universitário, Cascavel</div><div class="">Paraná, 85819-110, Brazil</div></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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