Brazilian Sign Language Encyclopedic Dictionary

[Valerie Sutton]

June 28, 2001

Dear SLLING List Members:

I am writing to announce a brand new publication....

The Brazilian Sign Language Encyclopedic Dictionary
http://www.SignWriting.org/brazil/brazil21.html

This historic, two-volume dictionary includes 9,500 Brazilian signs,
published at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, written by teams of
Deaf and hearing people.

It includes English, as well as Portuguese glosses, so the Dictionary
can be used outside of Brazil.

Below is a personal message from the editor, Dr. Fernando Capovilla,
who can answer questions through private email.

I hope you enjoy our new Special Feature about the dictionary!

SignWritingSite
http://www.SignWriting.org

Valerie Sutton
Webmaster


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FROM
UNIVERSITY of SAO PAULO, BRAZIL:

Dear Friends,
This first Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary is the testimony of a
groundbreaking cooperation between Deaf informants and hearing
researchers aiming at a better future for the Brazilian Deaf child.
It shall allow the much needed quality bilingual education and the
effective respect for the constitutional rights of Brazilian Deaf
people. However, being a trilingual dictionary written in
SignWriting, Portuguese and English, its scope goes beyond the
Brazilian Deaf Nation (1 million) and Nation (170 million), to
encompass all nations capable of reading Portuguese and English.

The Dictionary aims at serving as an effective tool in the hands of
deaf and hearing users, students and teachers, patients and doctors,
customers and companies, citizens and governments, people and
research scientists such as neuropsychologists, anthropologists,
educators and linguists devoted to them. In short, the Dictionary is
a celebration of the human encounter in the context of good will,
peace and understanding. It was made with great love and I hope you
may enjoy it and make it part of your life.

For more information, please visit our new web posting:

Brazilian Sign Language Encyclopedic Dictionary
http://www.SignWriting.org/brazil/brazil21.html

Or write to me privately, as I am not a member of this list:

I look forward to hearing from you!

Dr. Fernando Capovilla
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
capovilla at usp.br