This study investigates the interactional skills of fluent sign language users, with special attention to contexts of overlapping talk. Data from semi-spontaneous conversations were analyzed from the video record, transcribed in ELAN, with tiers for non-manual signals and with a ‘gesture phase’ analysis of manual signs. Results show that signers closely coordinate their contributions in accordance with the sequential implicativeness of gesture phases. They deploy conventional resources similar to those described for spoken languages to resolve overlap quickly and efficiently. We show that signers, like speakers of oral languages, orient to ‘one party talks at a time’, and that the management of talk-in-interaction is achieved within a tightly organized system which includes resources traditionally associated with the ‘linguistic’, ‘paralinguistic/prosodic’, and ‘kinetic/gestural’ domains, thus possibly contributing to investigations of explicitly ad hoc and multimodal forms of communication and eventually to a reevaluation of what might legitimately be termed ‘talk’.
Neste artigo, estudamos a semântica lexical da libras nos distanciando daquilo que Slobin (2015 [2008]) denominou como a tirania das glosas na linguística das línguas de sinais. Nosso objetivo é duplo: argumentar sobre os equívocos e prejuízos de continuarmos associando sinais com palavras em nossas pesquisas sobre a libras; e demonstrar o refinamento de análise possibilitado pela reflexão sobre a semântica lexical da libras em seus próprios termos. Partindo de um item lexical de estimulo, eliciamos frases em libras de surdos proficientes e pedimos que listassem possíveis sinônimos do sinal nesses contextos. O contraste semântico entre os sinais nos permitiu identificar diferentes redes paradigmáticas associadas ao item lexical estudado, demonstrando que a utilização da libras como metalinguagem possibilita compreender a semântica dos sinais para além do simplismo e dos vieses semânticos de glosas do português.
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