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Susanne Bentele Date: Tue Mar 14, 2000 6:59 am Subject: Re: (just a brief progress report, and a "PS-question-idea") | ||||||||
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Fernando Capovilla wrote: >This brief message is just to let you know that we have decided to include >a new >item in our BrSL dictionary (in addition to the already finished >glosses-definitions-morphology descriptions in Portuguese, BrSL SW, real-life >illustrations of both BrSL sign meaning and BrSL sign morphology): English >glosses. > >The purpose is twofold: > >1) helping Brazilian deaf kids to use BrSL not only as a bridge for expanding >their Portuguese vocabulary, but also as a bridge for creating their own >English >vocabulary as well; > >2) helping English-reading scholars and researchers who may be interested >in BrSL >learn something of it, and start doing comparative research on it (thus >helping us >Brazilian scholars and researchers with their knowledge and expertise). Hello Fernando, I can see the point why you want to include English glosses into your BrSLDict, especially the second one (we added an English foreword and English explanations of our research in the technical dictionary of joinery here in Hamburg for the same reason). But do you really think mere glosses can help Brazilian kids to expand their knowledge of English? Maybe it depends on the definition of a gloss... but I'd imagine this rather improbable. I do not know how your dictionary is built, I imagine there are also explanations of what the Portugese words mean (like in the BSL-English Dictionary for example). Then it is a great help for learning Portugese - but just an English gloss? For me a gloss is just a label for a sign, not necessarily a proper translation. More like a mnemonic aid... I feel this just wouldn't be enough. Maybe the SW-List is not the right place for this kind of discussion, but as there are a lot of teachers for the deaf on the list I'd like to ask wheather other teachers (I myself are not a teacher!) think this feasible. Thanx much, Susanne Susanne Bentele Institut fuer Deutsche Gebaerdensprache und Kommunikation Gehoerloser Universitaet Hamburg Binderstr. 34 20146 Hamburg Tel: ++49 40 428 38 6734 Fax: ++49 40 428 38 6109 https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/tlex | ||||||||
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