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[Rodrigo Bagni]

Thank you Cristina, it will help a lot.  :-)

Rodrigo

On Feb 19, 2008 7:56 AM, Mª Cristina P. Pereira <macripiper at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> To improve SW texts on the web: there is a paper about SW (Brazilian Portuguese
> only)that I wrote 2 years ago entitled "Signwriting system as a possibility in
> Deaf People literacy". I discuss why writing is an important empowerment tool
> to the deaf community and how prejudices (against a writing form) are a common
> false idea among groups who have not
> a writing system of their own (some indians groups, deaf,...). I compare some
> sign writing systems (thanks to Joe Martin's texts on the SW web) and suggest
> that SW is the writing code more adequate to register a
> signed language in an everyday bases.
>
> Available:
> http://br.geocities.com/macripiper/linguisticils.htm (at the bottom of the
> page) or directly
> http://br.geocities.com/macripiper/2006Celsul.pdf
>
> Hope it helps Portuguese and, maybe, Spanish readers.
>
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> Mª Cristina P. Pereira (Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil), http://br.geocities.com/macripiper
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