Brazilian Sign Language studies
This book brings together a collection of studies on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Research on Libras began in earnest 20 years ago, around the time that Libras was recognised as a national language of Brazil in 2002. Over the years, more and more deaf researchers have become sign language lingu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston Lancaster, UK
De Gruyter Mouton Ishara Press
[2020]
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| Series: | Sign languages and deaf communities ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abstracts
- Introduction to the volume
- Brazilian Sign Language documentation
- Aspects of the historical development of Brazilian Sign Language: from the 18th to the 21st century
- Tense and aspect system description for Brazilian Sign Language
- A study of morpholexical features of mouth morphemes: outlining the linguistic status of non-manual markers in Libras
- The variation in the number of hands of Libras signs as a result of coarticulation
- The syntactic structure of the clause in Brazilian Sign Language
- Evidence for determiners (articles) in Brazilian Sign Language: an analysis of the syntactic-semantic evidence found in nominals
- Bimodal bilingualism: analysis of the narratives of children of deaf parents
- The history of sign language: diachronic Libras variation in Santa Catarina
- Brazilian Sign Language acquisition as a first language
- Phonological awareness studies in Brazilian Sign Language
- Oral, written and signed modalities: linguistic uses and cultural constructions in Brazilian Sign Language classes for hearing people
- Reading strategies in Portuguese teaching as a second language for deaf students
- Libras Poetry
- The Letras Libras Glossary as a tool for the study of terminological units in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language)
- Index