O uso do olhar na língua de sinais brasileira: marcações pronominais

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Valdemar Barbosa Lima Júnior
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; FALE - FACULDADE DE LETRAS; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Olhar; Língua de sinais brasileira; Pronomes; Língua brasileira de sinais – Pronomes; Língua brasileira de sinais – Gramática
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/70395; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5934-8656

The sign languages studies are expanding further nowadays. While the non-manual markers are analyzed and described, there has been a better understanding of the language. With that, this research analyzes how the eye gaze is involved in the production of Brazilian Sign Language studies, with a focus on pronouns. The specific objectives are: (a) to identify linguistic phenomena of eye gaze in Brazilian Sign Language; (b) to analyze eye gaze in relation to directions; and (c) to describe how eye gaze is involved in pronoun markings. This is a descriptive work. It was based on Prillwitz (1985), Brito (1995), Wilbur (2003), Silva (2014), as well as Liddell (2003), Quadros and Karnopp (2004), Perniss (2007), Kaneko and Mesch (2013), Mohr (2014), Saito (2016), Lourenço (2018), and others. We used the UFSC Brazilian Sign Language corpus, which is free and available to sign languages researchers. The data concentrated on interviews with prominent deaf individuals in Brazil. Through the Brazilian Sign Language description, illustrations and videos were displayed to depict and explain the linguistic phenomena related to the eye gaze and pronominalization. We used personal figures; Brazilian and foreign authors were also used to validate points and to draw connections to other sign languages. We believe that this research is relevant, considering that the role of eye gaze in Brazilian Sign Language requires further explanation, as well as a new perspective on pronominal marking. Hence, it is demonstrated that eye gaze has directions upward, downward, sideways, and forward during Brazilian sign language production. Also, gaze patterns toward hands, space, the receiver, and internal gaze in constructed action were observed. Based on the mentioned examples, eye gaze is consistently followed by another element, such as pointing, a verb, a noun, or a classifier and its movement.