Língua brasileira de sinais: fala-em-interação entre surdos

Abstract

This research, which continues the research started in the Masters course, aims to observe interactions with deaf people users of sign language with the aim of analyzing how occurs the discursive topic development in natural environments using this language. The study is centred on the interaction between deaf and the instrument is the Brazilian Sign Language. For achievement of these objectives we sought the support of the theory of Conversational Analysis, based on Marcuschi (1986, 2007), Sacks (1992), Jubran (1992, 1996), Fávero (1995, 2005), Goffman (2002), Dionísio (2006), Kerbrat - Orecchioni (2006), Schegloff (2007), Liddicoat (2011), Santos and Galvão (2012) studies among others, electing one of the analytical categories of conversation / interaction to guide the results of this study: the discursive topic. We conducted a brief survey about sign languages, but precisely the Libras, based on the works of Stokoe (1960, 1965, 1972), Ferreira-Brito (1995); Quadros (1997, 2004; 2011); Coutinho (2000); Chaveiro and Barbosa (2004); Santana (2007); Kojima and Segala (2008); Serra (2009), among others. Ethnomethodology was used in this research, since we do not seek pre-prepared or well structured speeches, but, everyday spontaneous conversations, respecting our epistemological and methodological choice. The model collection was filming, since we did not have audio; informants were four professors, to ensure the fluency of generating themes, and transcription was performed in two stages: one with and one interpreter as a translation into Portuguese and analysis procedures followed the theoretical perspectives of speech in interaction. The exhibition of the results was divided in several steps, because the analysis was made video by video. We started with a generator topic of conversation among the informants, the presence of the theoretical properties already established about the discourse topic, possible disruptions topical, the transcript of excerpts of the interaction and the proposition of a new category that includes studies of visuospatial language conversations: the spatialization. Thanks to the analysis of the results, we determined the legitimacy of spatialization as guarantor of the continuity and development of the topic in the interaction between deafs.