Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study proposes a concept model for an electronic bilingual dictionary of sign language and Afrikaans (or English, or any other spoken language) that can be applied in practice by the De la Bat School for the Deaf in Worcester – or any school of similar organisation – to compile a bilingual dictionary in which it is not only possible to look up a sign via a written word but also to look up a sign even if the user does not necessarily know the written equivalent. This is important as it will mean that, for the first time in South Africa, a Deaf user would not have to be literate in any written language to use a dictionary in his or her own language. At the same time a hearing user would be able to look up a sign of which the meaning is unknown, for example when a sign is noticed in a conversation or an unknown context. The sign language dictionaries currently available in South Africa are little more than alphabetically arranged (or sometimes thematically arranged) lists in which the written language offers the only access to the content. As per introduction the first four chapters provide general discussions of sign language, the Deaf in South Africa, lexicography and sign language dictionaries. The discussions which follow in the remaining chapters focus on the decisions which have to be made in terms of the proposed dictionary’s content and design. These chapters contain recommendations regarding equivalent relations between sign language and Afrikaans, several outer texts which could be included in the frame structure, the characteristics of the electronic database from which the dictionary will be generated, as well as decisions that have to be made about the microstructure. In the last chapter the lexicographic model for an electronic bilingual Foundation Phase dictionary of South African Sign Language and Afrikaans is provided with complete examples. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie stel 'n konsepmodel voor vir 'n elektroniese tweetalige woordeboek van gebaretaal en Afrikaans (of Engels, of enige ander gesproke taal) wat deur die De la Bat Skool vir Dowes in Worcester – of enige ander skool of soortgelyke instansie – in die praktyk aangewend sou kon word om 'n tweetalige woordeboek saam te stel waarin dit nie slegs moontlik is om 'n gebaar via 'n geskrewe woord op te soek nie, maar ook om 'n gebaar op te soek sonder dat die gebruiker noodwendig die geskrewe ekwivalent ken. Dit is belangrik aangesien dit die eerste keer in Suid- Afrika sal beteken dat 'n Dowe gebruiker nie in enige geskrewe taal geletterd hoef te wees om 'n woordeboek in sy of haar eie taal te gebruik nie. Terselfdertyd sal 'n horende gebruiker wat gebaretaal leer in staat wees om 'n gebaar op te soek waarvan die betekenis onbekend is, soos wanneer 'n gebaar in 'n gesprek of onbekende konteks opgemerk word. Die gebaretaalwoordeboeke wat op die oomblik in Suid-Afrika bestaan, is weinig meer as alfabetiese (of soms tematiese) lyste waarin die geskrewe taal die enigste toegang tot die inhoud bied. Ter inleiding word algemene besprekings van gebaretaal, Dowes in Suid-Afrika, leksikografie en gebaretaalwoordeboeke in die eerste vier hoofstukke verskaf. Die besprekings wat in die hoofstukke daarop volg, fokus in meer besonderhede op die besluite wat t.o.v. die voorgestelde woordeboek se inhoud en ontwerp gemaak moet word. Dié hoofstukke bevat aanbevelings rakende ekwivalentverhoudings tussen gebaretaal en Afrikaans, verskeie buitetekste wat in die raamstruktuur gebruik sou kon word, die eienskappe van die elektroniese databasis waaruit die woordeboek gegenereer word asook besluite wat oor die mikrostruktuur geneem moet word. In die laaste hoofstuk word die leksikografiese model vir 'n elektroniese tweetalige grondslagfasewoordeboek van Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal en Afrikaans met volledige voorbeelde uiteengesit. / Nasionale Navorsingstigting / Harry Crosleystigting

Orientador: Carolina Maria Rodríguez Zuccolillo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T11:40:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_NilceMaria_D.pdf: 12107284 bytes, checksum: b74b2b49886f86bfc3be158d16147c91 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta tese tem como objetivo compreender a história da produção de conhecimento sobre a Língua Brasileira de Sinais - LIBRAS, na relação com os sujeitos e com o Estado. Busca, principalmente, compreender o modo de funcionamento do dicionário, enquanto instrumento linguístico, sua constituição e formulação, a partir do olhar da História das Ideias Linguísticas em articulação com a Análise de Discurso. Distinguimos três períodos principais na produção desses intrumentos. O primeiro diz respeito à publicação da Iconografia dos Signaes dos Surdos- Mudos, de Flausino José da Gama, em 1875, obra fundadora do saber lexicográfico sobre a língua de sinais do Brasil, conforme lemos nas análises e nos discursos sobre ela. A produção de instrumentos lexicográficos foi, entretanto, interrompida por quase um século, até sua retomada na década de 1960, devido a fatores relacionados à proibição da língua de sinais instituída a partir do Congresso de Milão, em 1880. O segundo período que identificamos, portanto, está constituído por um conjunto de obras publicadas desde os anos 1960 até a década de 1990: Linguagem das Mãos (1969), do Pe. Eugênio Oates; Linguagem de Sinais do Brasil (1983), de Harry Hoemann, Eugênio Oates & Shirley Hoemann; Comunicando com as Mãos (1987), de Judy Ensminger, e Linguagem de Sinais (1992), editados pela Sociedade Torre de Vigia de Bíblias e Tratados. Esse conjunto de dicionários, produzidos e publicados por instituições religiosas, alia uma ampliação do léxico da língua de sinais à uma discursividade religiosa. Tais dicionários apresentam uma série de características que serão aqui analisadas: os sinais/verbetes são distribuídos por temas, seguem a alfabetação das palavras da língua portuguesa e seu modo de realização é ilustrado com foto ou desenho; o enunciado lexicográfico é observado a partir da descrição do modo como o sinal é realizado. O terceiro período na história da produção de obras dicionarísticas da língua de sinais começa com a oficialização da LIBRAS como língua da comunidade surda do Brasil, em 2002. São três os dicionários estudados: o Dicionário Enciclopédico Ilustrado Trilíngue da Língua de Sinais Brasileira (2001), de Fernando César Capovilla e Walkíria Duarte Raphael; o Dicionário da Língua Brasileira de Sinais (2006), de Tanya Amara Felipe de Souza e Guilherme de Azambuja Lira e o Novo Deit-Libras: Dicionário Enciclopédico Ilustrado Trilíngue da Língua de Sinais Brasileira (2009), de Fernando César Capovilla, Walkíria Duarte Raphael e Aline Cristina L. Maurício. Essas obras se caracterizam, de modo geral, pela apresentação que os autores propõem dos sinais a partir de elementos oriundos da lexicologia e da lexicografia da língua oral, aliado ao conhecimento da língua de sinais referente à descrição da forma dos sinais; notamos nessas obras uma tentativa caracterizada pela ilusão de oferecer maior "transparência" e "completude" à língua e ao dicionário. Os estudos desenvolvidos permitem concluir que há um percurso de produção científica sobre a LIBRAS, que possibilita, aos autores, elaborar dicionários e gramáticas que sustentam a gramatização da LIBRAS. Ao mesmo tempo em que se legitima a LIBRAS, por meio dos estudos científicos sobre a língua, institucionalizam-se os saberes produzidos, por meio de instrumentos linguisticos como os dicionários e gramáticas / Abstract: This thesis aims to understand the history of the production of knowledge about the Brazilian Sign Language - LIBRAS in relation to the subjects and the state. It searches principally to understand the mode of operation of these instruments, their formation and formulation, from the look of the History of linguistics Ideas in conjunction with the Discourse Analysis. We distinguish three main periods in the production of these instruments. The first concerns the publication of the Iconography of signs of Deaf-Mutes, by Flausino José da Gama in 1875, the founding work of lexicographical knowledge about sign language of Brazil as we read in the analysis and in the discourses about it. The production of lexicographical tools was, however, halted for almost a century until its revival in the 1960s, due to factors related to the prohibition imposed from the Congress of Milan in 1880. Therefore, the second period we identified is constituted by a set of published works since the 1960s until the 1990s: Language of Hands (1969), the Rev. Eugene Oates; Sign Language of Brazil (1983), Harry Hoemann, Eugene Oates & Shirley Hoemann; Communicating with the Hands (1987), Judy Ensminger, and Sign Language (1992) published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. This set of dictionaries produced and published by religious institution, combines an extension of the lexicon of sign language to a religious discourse. Such dictionaries have a number of features that will be discussed: the signs/entries are divided by subject, following the alphabetical words of portuguese language and its mode of realization is illustrated by photo or drawing, the lexicographical utterance is observed from the description the way the signal is performed. The third period in the history of the production of dicionaristics books of sign language begins with the official of Libras as the language of the deaf community in Brazil in 2002.There are three dictionaries studied: Brazilian Sign Language Trilingual Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary (2001) Fernando César Duarte Walkíria Capovilla and Raphael; Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary (2006), Tanya Amara Felipe and Guilherme de Souza de Azambuja Lira and New deit- Libras: Trilingual Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brazilian Sign Language (2009), Fernando César Capovilla, Walkíria Raphael Duarte and Aline Cristina L. Mauricio. These works are characterized, in general, by the presentation that authors propose of the signals from elements derived from lexicology and lexicography of oral language, coupled with the knowledge of sign language on the description of the form of the signals, we note, in these works, a characterized attempt by the illusion to offer greater "transparency" and "completeness" to the language and the dictionary. The studies carried out indicate that there is a path of scientific literature on Libras which enables the authors to elaborate dictionaries and grammars that support grammatisation the Brazilian Sign Language. While that legitimizes Libras, through scientific studies on the language, there become institutionalized knowledge produced through linguistic tools such as dictionaries and grammars / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutora em Linguística