O ritmo na poesia em língua de sinais

Abstract

Abstract : This dissertation sought to identify elements in sign language poetry that would answer the question whether or not it possessed rhythm, and in which way this rhythm would be constituted, based primarily on the research of Valli (1993), Blondel and Miller (2001), Sutton-Spence (2005), and Machado (2013). With the aspects found in these authors, I created ten groups on Elan linguistic analysis software for the analysis of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) poems. These were: glosses, sign repetition, rhyme, morphism, pauses and holds, movement size, movement emphasis, movement duration, visual sonority, and symmetry. The corpus of this dissertation is composed of two Libras poems, Nelson Pimenta's "Bandeira Brasileira", and Fernanda Machado's "Voo sobre Rio". With the analyses of the poems I found a strong rhythm in these productions and that their compositions point to an attempt of constructing rhythmic patterns, exploring the visual properties of these languages.