Banca de DEFESA: DANIELE AMANDA COSTA DE LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DANIELE AMANDA COSTA DE LIMA
DATE: 21/06/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

THE CONCEPT OF Portuguese language AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING IN BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE (LIBRAS): CONCEPTUALIZATION IN REPORTS BY DEAF PEOPLE BASED ON AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO COGNITION AND LANGUAGE

KEY WORDS:

Ecological approach to cognition and language. Conceptualization. Deaf people. Brazilian sign language. Portuguese language.

PAGES: 60
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

During an interaction, it is necessary to resort to the network of knowledge that one has about language, concepts evoked by linguistic elements and the experienced situation. This process involves cognitive-ecological mechanisms associated with the construction of concepts’ meaning, that is, conceptualization. For the purpose of understanding how Deaf people conceptualize Portuguese language in reports available in videos from YouTube, this Master’s thesis seeks to answer the following questions: (1) how can the language-game (WITTGENSTEIN, 2012) that structures the studied interaction be characterized?; (2) what are the verbal and non-verbal clues involved in the process of conceptualization of Portuguese language by Deaf people?; (3) what are the cognitive-ecological mechanisms engaged in the said conceptualization?; (4) how Deaf people build their worldview of Portuguese language? Through a technique to establish saturation of data (STRAUSS; CORBIN, 2008), three videos produced in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) by Deaf youtubers were selected, in which they share their experiences with Portuguese. Based on the theoretical framework of the ecological approach to cognition and language (DUQUE, 2017), the reports were analyzed aiming the identification of concepts evoked by signers. The analysis performed suggests that, for the construction of meaning of Portuguese language, it is necessary to evoke a network of frames (DUQUE, 2015; 2017) that supports the conceptualization that associates the learning process of Portuguese with assiduous study of writing and grammatical categories, speech training, the use of devices created to increase auditory perception and the appreciation of Libras. Moreover, the research shows that, by learning Portuguese, Deaf people and hearing people resort to distinct events and, within the Deaf community, deafness is perspectivated as an identity trait.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1675404 - PAULO HENRIQUE DUQUE
Externa à Instituição - FLÁVIA MEDEIROS ÁLVARO MACHADO - UFES
Externa à Instituição - VERIDIANE RIBEIRO PINTO - IFSC