New Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary based on new Cognitive Neurosciences Paradigm now available

[Valerie Sutton]

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 ;-)



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On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Fernando Capovilla wrote:

> 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).
> 
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> 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,
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> 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,
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> 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.
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> http://www.edusp.com.br/detlivro.asp?id=31411786
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> 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
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