SIGN LANGUAGE DOUBLE ARTICULATION

STRUCTURALIST LINGUISTICS AND SIGN WRITING IN THE ELUCIDATION OF THIS PRINCIPLE

Authors

  • Claudio Alves Benassi professormscaobenassi@gmail.com
    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso http://falangemiuda.com.br
  • Simone de Jesus Padilha simonejp1@gmail.com
    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Abstract

This study aims at presenting the implementation of the human language double articulation principle, through the French linguist André Martinet’s proposition, applying his assumptions in sign language, which up to now, as analyzed, was not thoroughly carried out. From Libras writing through the SignWriting system VisoGraphy, which is considered preponderant for the deepening of the detailed application of double articulation in Libras, the two sides of the sign language are analyzed. The first is linked to the smallest significant parts of the language, domain of the first articulation of the human language, in the study area of morphology. The second concerns the smallest parts of the sign language which are meaningless, that is, related to the smallest visual parts (paremic) which constitute the sinalemas (signs) of the sign language, whose study area is paremology, an area analogous to phonology in oral languages. The main theoretical basis is related to Martinet’s thought and presuppositions, in addition to Benassi’s studies related to linguistics and sign language.  

Author Biographies

  • Claudio Alves Benassi, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
    Doutor em Estudos de Linguagens pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Formado em Música pela UFMT, especialista em Libras pelo Centro Universitário Leonardo da Vinci, Mestre em Cultura Contemporânea. Professor Assistente A do Departamento de Letras da UFMT. Doutorando em Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea.
  • Simone de Jesus Padilha, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

    Professora orientadora. Doutora em Linguística aplicada. Coordenadora do Grupo de Pesquisa Relendo Bakhtin (REBAK)

Published

2020-11-13

How to Cite

SIGN LANGUAGE DOUBLE ARTICULATION: STRUCTURALIST LINGUISTICS AND SIGN WRITING IN THE ELUCIDATION OF THIS PRINCIPLE . (2020). Revista Diálogos, 8(3), 190-206. https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/revdia/article/view/11285