Descrição paremológica da Libras : uma análise comparativa de sinalemas em dicionários

Abstract

The linguistic system of Libras - Brazilian Language of Signals, is gestural-visual. It has its own grammatical structure. This research proposes a comparative linguistic analysis based on the VisoGrafia for recording linguistic data. The general objective is to analyze, document, and register the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). This is a descriptive analysis of signs in the selected dictionaries to constitute a Paremo-morphological record of that language. In addition, it has the following specific objectives: 1) select lexical items in the chosen dictionaries for their comparative analysis and subsequent description and registration; 2) register the possible alterations in the sinalemas analyzed, describing the linguistic elements that compose them; and 3) constitute a documentary graphic record of linguistic changes and phenomena of linguistic states. Therefore, two dictionaries are chosen that present records of these states of language; on the one hand, the "Iconographia dos Signaes dos Surdo-Mudos" (Gama, 1875), which records the sign language used by the deaf in the second half of the 19th century, located in the Imperial Instituto de Surdos-Mudos, Rio de Janeiro - currently, Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos – INES; on the other hand, the “Dicionário da Língua de Sinais do Brasil” (Cappovilla et. al., 2019). Both dictionaries are significant for the deaf community. Likewise, the function of the dictionary is to document and disseminate the lexicon of a language, allowing the query of its lexical items in a certain period, and knowing the origins of the items. The research is based on Saussurian thought (2004; 2012), about the concept of language. Martinet (1997), French linguist, develops the theory of the double human articulation, and Benassi (2019) exposes the system of the writing of signs - VisoGrafia, analyzed as graphical support for the description and for the Paremo-morphological register of the sinalemas. The methodology is a descriptive analysis of sinalemas in the dictionaries mentioned here. Therefore, the chosen sinalemas were articulated to each of the linguistic elements, exposing as a comparison the states of language. In addition, the analysis, description and Paremo morphological register of the chosen sinalemas, it verifies some phenomena in the linguistic system that determine unaltered sinalemas and the phenomena that acted on them, modifying partially or totally. Finally, linguistic research is encouraged by writing signs as a graphic resource and disseminating the linguistic data obtained.