Announcing NOVO DEIT-LIBRAS, First Edition

[Valerie Sutton]

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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