As articulações nominais na Língua Brasileira de Sinais: uma abordagem enunciativa

Abstract

Based on the Semantic Theory of Enunciation (Guimarães, 2018; Dias, 2018), this paper seeks to understand how the Deaf Community appropriates social media, thus meaning how the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is employed in social contexts and how it transcends the internet and materializes"corporeally" in the real world, as its main objective. Starting with the concept of the Nominal Formation (NF) and its dimensions - subnominal, intranominal and internominal articulations - as presented by Dias (2018), nominality in Libras is analyzed based on the enunciative reasons anchored in a visual-space architecture, establishing a name or nominal group as a measure of meaning in the language. Starting with the observation of nominal unities making the rounds on social media and in other channels known to the deaf - and using as basis the concept of enunciation as the utterance as predictive of the enunciation, the NFs collected were analyzed with the support of the ELAN software, used for capturing signalling and applying the Methodology of Enunciative Networks (Dias, 2018), a technique that allows the visualization of the process of the creating of meaning, which stabilizes and condenses itself in names in the language. The theoretical framework on which the research is based is composed of concepts such as mobilization domain (Dias, 2013, 2018), enunciative relevance (Dias, 2018), enunciative event (Guimarães, 2018), historical reference (Dias, 2018), nominal formation and collaboration (Dias, 2018). The qualitative results involve the understanding that nominal units are conceived from condensations of social perceptions in different enunciation scenarios, based on another linguistic materiality. This analysis allowed us to conclude that the visualization of the deaf person is a component of the NF because the visual dimension is intertwined with the relations of meaning in Libras. In addition, the links between linguistic materiality and the networks of meaning circulating socially in the world of the Deaf do not happen at random, in the same way, it doesn't in other languages. The research allowed us to understand how the Deaf (and its community) co-opt and mobilize networks of meaning, imbuing, through their bodies, their experiences of meaning.