REGISTER OF THE BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE LEXICON: ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PATRIMONY OF SALVADOR, BAHIA

Abstract

The present work has as general objective to analyze the signs of the historical-cultural patrimony of Salvador, in order to register the motivations of the signs, as well as to understand how their lexicon is constituted and as specific objectives to know the structure and motivation of the sign of patrimony from the perspective of deaf subjects, to describe the lexicon of the existing signs of patrimony and to record the history of the emergence of the signs of patrimony in Salvador. In order to achieve the objectives, a qualitative approach was chosen methodologically, and regarding its objectives, it is presented as an exploratory and descriptive research. Based on a sample of six heritage signs, structured interviews were carried out with ten deaf informants. The theoretical framework used includes considerations about (i) linguistic studies (Martelotta, 2008); (ii) linguistic studies of sign language with an emphasis on the phonology and morphology of BSL (Quadros; Karnopp, 2004; Cordeiro, 2019; Battison, 1978); (iii) in relation to the linguistic borrowing of BSL (Faria-Nascimento, 2009; Cordeiro, 2019) and (iv) about iconicity and arbitrariness (Strobel; Fernandes, 1998; Saussure, 2006). Through the research carried out, the proposed objective of registering the lexicon and history of patrimonies was accomplished through the perspective of deaf subjects, however, it was noted that the research corpus did not reach greater amplitude due to the inexistence of signs of many historical-cultural patrimonies, with the hypothesis that they are places still little accessed by the deaf due to the lack of linguistic accessibility.