Língua Brasileira de Sinais: escolhas lexicais e desenvolvimento do tópico discursivo

Abstract

This research analyzes the lexical choices used by the deaf to create and develop an appropriate level of interaction and identify strategies for integration, reformulation and resumed the topic of discourse that occur during the communicative act performed in sign language. To achieve these goals we hold you in the theory of conversational analysis, based on studies Marcuschi (1986) and Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006). The concepts explored mediating the basic elements of conversation: the exchange of shifts, the topic of discourse markers and conversational. We also make an explanation of the Brazilian sign language based on the work of Quadros (1994) and Coutinho (2000). Our methodological approach has the type of interview, the subjects, materials used and procedures, or recordings of conversations, the manipulation of video, data transcription and selection of the corpus for analysis. Following the presentation of results begins with a quantitative survey that shows the number of signals obtained at each level of education study and analysis of lexical choices by showing how these choices can interfere with or contribute to the progression topical. From this, we can conclude that the lexical choices explain the vast repertoire of sign languages and show that they are not mere reproductions of the iconic oral languages. Moreover, we observed the difficulty of keeping to the topic that there are no significant breaks, but it is evident that this development topic may or may not occur and that this depends on the relevance established by the theme of interaction.