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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Quadros, Ronice Müller de (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston Lancaster, UK De Gruyter Mouton Ishara Press [2020]
Series:Sign languages and deaf communities ; 11.
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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