Proposal for development of an illustrated bilingual children’s dictionary in Portuguese and Libras/ELiS: the design of nomenclature

Abstract

This research aims to disseminate theoretical and methodological bases related to selection and treatment of nomenclature in a bilingual children’s dictionary in Libras and Portuguese. The research is bibliographic in nature, since we used previously published lexicographic works, both in Libras and Portuguese, for consultation, analysis and selection of lemmas candidates for entries and their equivalents. For this purpose, some strategies were developed, such as: i) comparison of the selected works; ii) selection of lexical units present in the three reference works in Portuguese and Libras; and iii) creation of criteria to elect a lexical unit over the other variants in Libras. Our proposal has some differences in relation to other existing works with a similar scope, such as the presence of Libras in its written form and the organization of the nomenclature in both directions, respecting two languages ​​involved. We also highlight the concern in constructing a nomenclature in accordance with the prerogatives of the PNLD 2012 – Dicionários , for works of type 1. As a result, we developed a specific nomenclature in Libras related to the children’s universe, composed of 570 entries, which will be organized in both directions, setting Libras and Portuguese on the same level of equality, a feat not yet achieved in the available works.