Para uma terminologia em saúde em língua gestual portuguesa

Abstract

This research is the first terminology list in the area of health in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) as a first step towards the construction of a lexicographic resource, which we believe will contribute to more effective communication for and with deaf people, in an area that is a pillar of unquestionable relevance, with communication barriers and difficulties that need to be improved and for which some proposals are presented. This work was carried out in three phases. In the first phase, signs were collected from the Health Subcorpus in LGP of the Portuguese Catholic University (Ref. PTDC/LLT-LIN/29887/2017). In the second phase, signs were observed and elicited by deaf specialists in the field of health. In the last phase, a survey was carried out of the existing health lexicon in the existing linguistic resources of the common lexicon in LGP. The signs were selected and phonologically analyzed in terms of parameters: Configuration of the Hand (CH), Location (L), and Movement (M), the 167 different forms of production of the 70% of signs that showed alterations, and which correspond to 65 common signs of the different signs. The results of this analysis show that the signs produced between the two groups studied (specialists and non-specialists) present articulatory differences in their majority (98%, 57 out of 58 signs). Within the group of non-specialist signers, it was observed that 75% of the signs (33 out of 44 signs) varied, and within the group of specialists, the variation of signs was 74% (17 out of 23 signs). In a variation of phonological analysis, the specialist signers present the lowest percentage of alterations in 4% of the terms produced. The group of non-specialists revealed a variation in 16% of the terms produced. In the comparison between the specialist and non-specialist groups, a total variation of signs (total change in parameters) was observed in 33% of the terms produced. It was also observed that the phonological parameter that presents the greatest variation is the CH, followed by L and M. A second analysis reveals a conceptual phenomenon in the production of terms that were observed throughout the phonological analysis, registering different signs/concepts for the same term/word, suggesting some polysemy in terminology that is intended to be unambiguous. Other phenomena were also observed in the creation of signs, such as the identification of the principle of transparency of the denomination and the transliteration of the initial letter, which are important processes in the creation of neologisms.

Date of Award	9 Dec 2024
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Mara Moita (Supervisor) & Paulo Vaz de Carvalho (Supervisor)