Metáfora Conceptual e Libras: uma abordagem cognitiva da surdez

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Paula Helouise
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6411
• topic: Cognitive Linguistics; Conceptual Metaphor; Deafness; Libras; Linguística Cognitiva; Metáfora Conceptual; Surdez; Libras; Língua de sinais; Psicolinguística; Metáfora; Língua brasileira de sinais; Surdos; CNPQ::

The historical course of deafness representations, deaf education and the status of sign language shows require of relationship reflection between language, cognition and culture. A study directed on conceptual structures underlying the language spoken by deafs Libras- can cooperate with some relevant considerations in question deafness / culture, and contribute for demystifying possible prejudices about sign language. The cognitive linguistics (CL), science that encompasses the cognitive aspects involving significance, context influence for language understanding/production and the way like world is experienced individually and culturally, revealed like theoretical basis for more functional development of such reflection, once it s include interest areas the study about mechanisms cognitive conceptualization expression of reality, which fall within cognitive and cultural models, conceptual metaphor and metonymy. Taking into account that the design of the LC metaphor established by the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor (TMC) postulated by Lakoff and Johnson (2002 [1980]) and extended by Kövecses (2002, 2003, 2005) considers metaphor as a conceptual mechanism in which humans employ a more concrete experiential field, linked to experiment with their bodies and the world they live, to understand / conceptualize a more abstract domain. In this study we try to verify the applicability of this theory in the Brazilian sign language (Libras) hypothesizing that the conceptual metaphors can be identified in any language, even a sign language, and the metaphorical expressions founded in Libras may reflect the specificities of the deaf culture and aspects of listener culture, cultural influence generated by their inclusion in this culture. The research developed a qualitative /descriptive, approach, with analysis of heterogeneous corpus, composed of isolated signs, videos and transcripts of therapeutic interactions. The results show the manifestation of conceptual metaphor in Libras,and expression of semantic and phonology aspects underlying iconicity of Brazilian sign language. This is an initial survey, but which provides guidance for some questions about the conceptual and cognitive aspect of iconicity, and the scope of the CMT and its relation to language and culture