Fernando Cesar Capovilla

Psychologist, Master in Developmental Psychology (University of Brasilia, 1984), PhD in Experimental Psychology (Temple University of Philadelphia, 1989), Livre-Docencia in Neuropsychology (University of Sao Paulo, 2000). Full Professor, Institute of Psychology, University of Sao Paulo. Citations=8932. Índex H=43. Index i10=175. Doctor Honoris Causa in Education. Full Member of the National Council of Education (2022-2024). President Literacy Acquisition Committee at the National Council of Education. Jabuti Award (2002) and ABEU Award (2018, 1st prize, best book Psychology Education). Research areas: Assessment of language development and disorders (speech and writing and sign language). Intervention for prevention and treatment of language disorders. Developmental dyslexia, deafness, aphasia, cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, literacy acquisition methods, prevention of dyslexia, reading and spelling standardized neuropsychological assessment, Brazilian Sign Language lexicography, language development in deaf students. Published by the University of Sao Paulo Press (Edusp) the very best sign language dictionary of all times. It is a 3,000-page collection in 3 hardcover volumes. It is titled Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary: Libras at your hands. Please find below the complete references, as well as the link to the publisher's page. It is our fourth dictionary in a series that has begun in 1994. The three volumes are: (1) Capovilla, F, C.; Raphael, W. D.; Temoteo, J. G.; Martins, A. C. (2017). Dicionário da Língua de Sinais do Brasil: A Libras em Suas Mãos. Volume 1: Sinais de A a D. São Paulo, SP: Edusp. ISBN: 978-85-314-1540-1. (ISBN: 9788531415401). (1330 pp.). (2) Capovilla, F, C.; Raphael, W. D.; Temoteo, J. G.; Martins, A. C. (2017). Dicionário da Língua de Sinais do Brasil: A Libras em Suas Mãos. Volume 2: Sinais de E a O. São Paulo, SP: Edusp. ISBN: 978-85-314-1541-8. (ISBN: 9788531415418). (1100 pp.) (3) Capovilla, F, C.; Raphael, W. D.; Temoteo, J. G.; Martins, A. C. (2017). Dicionário da Língua de Sinais do Brasil: A Libras em Suas Mãos. Volume 3: Sinais de P a Z. São Paulo, SP: Edusp. ISBN: 978-85-314-1542-5. (ISBN: 9788531415425). (1140 pp.). The dictionary contains 13,500 Libras signs, each in its corresponding lexical entry. Each entry contains: (1) glosses corresponding to the sign in both Portuguese and English; (2) the definition of the meaning of the sign and glosses; (3) sign meaning illustrations; (4) sign form illustration; (5) sign form description; (6) examples of adequate use of glosses and sign; (7) specification of scope of geographic validity of each sign (Brazilian states where they are in full use); (8) SignWriting rendition of each sign form; (9) analysis of sign morphology (specification of molar and molecular morphemes contained in it) that permits recognizing semantic relationships among different signs and relate to corresponding morphemes in sign structure and gloss structure; (10) sign etymology (e.g., Paradise metro station refers to the act of biting an apple); (11) sign iconicity; (12) gloss fingerspelling in the brand new Capovilla-Raphael handshape font. All sign meaning illustration has also been assessed with respect to their corresponding iconicity and name agreement (univocity) so as to increase links among semantic and pictorial and sematosemic representations. As a dictionary elaborated by cognitive neuroscientists, it paves the way for the clarification of thousands of issued pertaining to sign cognitive processing. https://www.edusp.com.br/detlivro.asp?id=416453 http://www.ip.usp.br/lance/livros.html (Source: Lattes Curriculum)