Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], v, 45 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37).

Abstract: This study explores how the photographs of Alan Kurdi were used by Swedish newspapers, how they may have been perceived by the readers of those newspapers, and whether there are any ethical considerations when using the photography of Alan Kurdi. It answers three research questions; “How were the photographs of Alan Kurdi used by Swedish newspapers?”, “What potential meanings of the photographs of Alan Kurdi were interpreted by the readers of the articles?” and “What are the ethical implications of using the photographs of Alan Kurdi in the newspapers?” In order to investigate this the top 5 Swedish newspapers were studied and all the articles containing the photographs were studied. Through Sensitising Concepts and Inductive Analysis several topics and categories were discovered. The most common topic used by the newspapers was the topic of Alan Kurdi himself. In order to analyse these results Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Model of Communication is applied. The model identifies three types of receivers. Those who use preferred reading, negotiated reading and oppositional reading. By applying this model the way the photographs of Alan Kurdi was perceived by the readers of the newspapers can be analysed through the three different perspectives. Through the analysis it was argued that the most common way to perceive the photographs was humanising. The photographs worked both as an icon for the refugee crisis and to describe Alan Kurdi or the situation he was fleeing from. These topics can be argued to have a humanising effect on the refugee crisis as a whole. This was evident when charitable donations increased and there was a change in policy for refugees in Sweden that was less strict than before. However, after only a few months the public opinion grew harsher towards refugees and immigrants. This leads to the question - was it worth it? The photographs were used without consent and they could be argued to be exploitative of Alan Kurdi as well as his family. They can also be argued to be unethical. This papers concludes that the photographs were used by Swedish newspapers extensively, it seems in the most part with the intention of humanising the refugee crisis, and when looking at the rise in charitable donations and change in policy it seems to have worked. For a while. In truth, the photographs made no lasting difference, and it can be argued that the use of the photographs was unethical and the results that came from their publication did not justify the exploitation of Alan Kurdi.

Cette thèse recueille un grand nombre de recherches effectuées entre les années 1960-1990 en Europe et en Amérique dans le domaine du symbolisme phonétique consistant « en l’attribution d’une signification à un phonème ou un trait distinctif » (Monneret, 2003 : 98). Un enjeu pertinent est représenté par l’instauration de l’état des lieux des recherches phono-symboliques en Union Soviétique. L’approche comparativo-descriptive est accompagnée de l’application de la typologie relative au symbolisme phonétique née lors de la période mentionnée (le symbolisme subjectif versus le symbolisme objectif). Le présent travail scientifique relève les éventuelles causes du blocage des recherches avant 1960 ainsi que celles de l’essor des analyses pendant la période 1960-1990, en se focalisant sur la problématique théorique et la praxis accumulée autour des manifestations phono-symboliques. N’étant plus considéré comme un phénomène marginal, le symbolisme phonétique présenté comme le fait qui prend ses sources du concept de l’iconicité linguistique traitant des relations motivées entre la forme et le contenu et dont l’intérêt croissant se manifestera dans les années quatre-vingt, peut être analysé aujourd’hui à l’aide du concept d’analogie considérée dans les recherches récentes de Monneret (2014). / This thesis collects a relevant number of researches made between years 1960-1990 in Europe and in America in the field of the phonetic symbolism consisting “of the attribution of the meaning in a phoneme or a distinctive feature” (Monneret, 2003: 98; our translation). The important stake is represented by the institution of the current situation of the phono-symbolic researches in Soviet Union. The comparativo-descriptive approach is accompanied with the application of the typology relative to the phonetic symbolism been born during period mentioned (the subjective symbolism versus the objective symbolism). The present scientific work raises the possible causes of the blockage of the researches before 1960 as well as those of the development of analyses during the period 1960-1990, by focusing on the theoretical problem and the praxis accumulated around the phono-symbolic manifestations. No more considered as a marginal phenomenon, the phonetic symbolism presented as the fact that rises in the concept of the linguistic iconicity handling relations motivated between the form and the contents the increasing interest of which will show itself in the eighties, can be analyzed by means of the concept of analogy today considered in the recent researches (Monneret, 2014) as the emergent cognitive phenomenon involving similarity.

Cette étude vise à analyser l’image ambiguë de la culture thaïlandaise contemporaine à travers un regard extérieur. En ayant pour but de reconstituer « l’image à partir des images », nous menons une analyse à la croisée de corpus hétérogènes : des photographies et des dessins de presse réalisés par des auteurs occidentaux. Le travail élabore une analyse impliquant les deux démarches complémentaires de la sémiologie et de la sémiotique. Une approche sémiologique, qui sert à étudier les signes visuels (iconiques, plastiques et linguistiques) et leurs traitements symboliques et une approche sémiotique qui est introduite pour dégager les significations, la structure profonde et les isotopies fondamentales. Ces corpus concernent certains aspects culturels comme, par exemple, les nouveaux visages de la religion bouddhiste, la transformation des pratiques traditionnelles, l’influence des cultures étrangères, les nouvelles expressions symboliques. Cette recherche met en évidence la coexistence d’éléments incongrus dans la représentation culturelle, ce qui permet de dégager une image de l’évolution contemporaine de l’identité thaïlandaise, avec ses floues, ses doutes et ses équivoques. Ce regard permet également de voir un pays qui se cherche, oscillant entre tradition et modernité, le bouddhisme et le capitalisme, le spirituel et le matériel, l’identité et l’altérité, l’être et le paraître. La vie sociale et culturelle est présentée ici comme prise dans une dynamique de transformation permanente issue de l’acculturation et de la tendance corrélative au syncrétisme chez les Thaïlandais / This study aims to analyze the ambiguous image of contemporary Thai culture through different points of view. Our purpose is to establish an interpretation of Thai cultural identity from images. Hence, an analysis has been conducted, based on heterogeneous objects of study: photography and press cartoons created by western authors. Two complementary approaches, which are semiology and semiotics, have been elaborated. A semiological approach is used to study visual signs (iconic, plastic and linguistic) and symbolic expressions whereas a semiotic approach is applied to identify the meanings, the structural analysis and the basic isotopies. The selected images allow us to explore some Thai cultural representations such as new aspects of Buddhism, transformation in traditional practices, influence of foreign cultures, new symbolic expressions... This research also reveals the coexistence of incongruous elements in Thai cultural representation and reflects the image of the contemporary evolution of the Thai identity with its confused, undefinable and ambiguous aspects. Thailand, in the eyes of foreign observers, is a country searching for its identity, oscillating between tradition and modernity, Buddhism and capitalism, spiritual and material, identity and alterity, substance and appearance. Thai social and cultural life is presented as a dynamic in continuous transformation, which is the result of the acculturation in the globalized world and the tendency for syncretism of Thai people

Esta tese de doutorado deriva do programa de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Geração de Dicionários da Língua de Sinais Brasileira (Libras) conduzido pelo Professor Capovilla no último quarto de século. A tese pertence aos campos da lexicologia, lexicografia e metalexicografia. A tese foca na pesquisa lexicográfica que a autora conduziu como coautora do Dic-Brasil: Dicionário da Língua de Sinas do Brasil (Capovilla, Raphael, Temoteo, & Martins, 2017a, 2017b, 20917c) nos estados do Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná e no Distrito Federal . Ela descreve as estratégias usadas para estudar o léxico de Libras, e compara as estratégias lexicográficas usadas em seis dicionários clássicos, três dos quais d e Libras e os outros três da Língua de Sinais Americana. A tese analisa o papel que a iconicidade do sinal desempenha nos dicionários de sinais, e compara diferentes modos com que a iconicidade é tratada nesses seis dicionários clássicos de língua de sinai s. De modo a aumentar a eficácia pragmática com que os dicionários representam sinais, esta tese analisa o papel desempenhado pelas ilustrações e descrições, tanto da forma do sinal quanto de seu significado; bem como da iconicidade, etimologia e morfologi a do sinal. A tese descreve um estudo sobre a iconicidade dos sinais, e analisa a relação entre o grau em que a forma de um sinal pode ser considerada admissível para representar um dado significado e o grau em que esse significado pode ser efetivamente ad ivinhado. Sinais icônicos têm significado admissível e adivinhável. O paradoxo na bibliografia é que sinais não adivinháveis são considerados admissíveis. No estudo analisando relação entre admissibilidade e adivinhabilidade, 70 sujeitos ingênuos (Grupos 1 e 2) observaram 201 sinais (Conjuntos A e B). Sujeitos do Grupo 1 julgavam a admissibilidade dos sinais do Conjunto A (atribuindo nota numa escala Likert: - 2, - 1, +1, +2) e adivinhavam o significado dos sinais do Conjunto B. Sujeitos do Grupo 2 faziam o o posto: julgavam a admissibilidade dos sinais do Conjunto B e adivinhavam significado dos sinais do Conjunto A. Resultados revelaram que s ujeitos julgaram 28 sinais como inadmissíveis (Adm M - 1), 77 como admissíveis (+1 Adm M ), e 96 como neutros ( - 1,00< Adm M <+1,00). Dos 201 sinais, adivinharam somente 24 (+1 Adv M ), todos os quais haviam sido previamente considerados admissíveis pelo outro grupo. Nenhum sinal que foi considerado inadmissíve l por um grupo chegou a ser adivinhado pelo outro. Logo, a admissibilidade de um sinal parece ser condição necessária para a adivinhabilidade desse sinal, e correlacionada positivamente com essa adivinhabilidade. O estudo sugere que, aparentemente, a admis sibilidade só passa a predizer fortemente a adivinhabilidade quando essa admissibilidade ultrapassar certo limiar de forte admissibilidade, que está localizado em algum ponto entre 1,50 e 1,75 (i.e., 1,50 Adm M 1,75) na escala Likert / This doctoral dissertation springs from the Research and Development Program on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) Dictionaries conducted by Professor Capovilla and students at the University of Sao Paulo over the last 25 years. The dissertation pertains to Libras lexicology, lexicography, and metalexicography. The dissertation centers on the lexicographic research that the author has conducted as coauthor of the Dic-Brasil: Libras Dictionary (Capovilla, Raphael, Temoteo, & Martins, 2017a, 2017b, 20917c). It describes the strategies used for studying Libras lexicon, and compares lexicographic strategies used in six classic dictionaries, three of which on Libras, and the other three on American Sign Language. The dissertation analyzes the role of sign iconicity in sign dictionaries. It compares different ways in which iconicity is dealt with in six classic sign language dictionaries. In order to increase the pragmatic efficacy with which dictionaries represent signs, the present dissertation analyzes the role played by both illustration and description of both sign form and sign meaning, as well as by descriptions of sign iconicity, etymology and morphology. The dissertation describes a study on sign iconicity that analyzes the relationship between sign admissibility and sign guessability. Signs are iconic when their meaning is admissible and can be guessed. Paradoxically, while only 10% of sign meaning can be guessed, the remaining 90% of signs that cannot be guessed are considered admissible, once the observer is informed about what they mean. In the study, 70 naive subjects (Groups 1 and 2) examined 201 signs (Sets A and B). Group 1 subjects rated the admissibility of Set A signs (using a Likert scale: -2, -1, +1, +2) and guessed the meaning of Set B signs. Group 2 did the opposite. Results showed that: Subjects rated 28 signs as inadmissible (average rating -1), 77 signs as admissible (average rating +1), and 96 signs as neutral (-.99 average rating +.99). Only 24 of 201 signs were effectively guessed (average rating +1), all of which had been regarded as being admissible by the other group subjects. No sign that had been regarded as inadmissible ended up being guessed. Therefore, admissibility seemed necessary for guessability and positively correlated with it. Yet it seemed insufficient for guessability. The data suggests that, apparently, sign admissibility can only predict sign guessability when admissibility surpasses a given threshold of strong admissibility, which is located somewhere in between 1.5 and 1.75 point (1,50 average rating 1,75) in the Likert scale

O signo toponímico, cuja característica principal é a identificação de um determinado espaço, estabelecendo uma significação, em certos contextos, pode destacar traços do espaço referido, evidenciando uma iconicidade toponímica (DICK, 1990). Este estudo de caso examina, sob estes aspectos, topônimos da Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, por meio da aplicação dos modelos teóricos e metodológicos propostos por Dick no projeto Atlas Toponímico do Brasil (ATB). Considerando o contexto regional, foram selecionados 108 topônimos que designam sítios turísticos na área conhecida como Circuito do Diamante, onde estão situadas as principais cidades que, no final do século XIX, emergiram com a mineração e que, hoje, figuram como as cidades históricas de destaque no circuito turístico local: Andaraí, Lençóis, Mucugê e Palmeiras. Considerando o topônimo um traço cultural, a descrição dos ambientes físico e social é observada, com apresentação dos caracteres geográficos e dos ciclos históricos que se sucederam desde as fundações destes núcleos populacionais. A catalogação dos topônimos, em fichas lexicográfico-toponímicas (DICK, 2004), dispõe o tratamento lingüístico do corpus e acrescenta informações extralingüísticas que concorrem à compreensão dos mecanismos motivadores das nomeações. Os signos toponímicos são analisados em suas categorias semânticas e em suas propriedades icônicas. / The toponymic sign, which main characteristic is the identification of a certain location that establishes meaning, in some contexts, may emphasize some referred location features, bringing to light a kind of toponymic iconicity (DICK, 1990). The present case study explores, on these aspects, toponyms from Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, on the theoretical and methodological models presented by Dick in Atlas Toponímico do Brasil (ATB). By taking the regional context into consideration, 108 toponyms designating tour sites have been chosen from the Diamond Circuit area, where the main late 19th Century cities of Andaraí, Lençóis, Mucugê, and Palmeiras, that emerged due to mining and nowadays are important historic cities in the regional touristic circuit, are located. Having toponym as a cultural trace, physical and social environments description is performed, presenting geographic and historical cycles information, since these people settlement. The toponyms cataloging using lexigraphictoponymic forms (DICK, 2004) defines the linguistic treatment of the corpus and adds extralinguistic data, which help the understanding of naming motivation mechanisms. Toponymic signs are analyzed by their semantic categories and iconic properties

Tratar de ciganos à luz do discurso de não-ciganos pede discussões sobre estigmatização e dos termos a ela associados. Esse caminho produzirá, como demonstramos na tese, a contribuição para a compreensão do (des)prestígio social de uma comunidade isolada. Historicamente, por séculos, a estigmatização negativa arraiga o preconceito que ecoa no imaginário social do não-cigano ao referir o cigano. Esse quadro ainda é constatado no século XXI, e ainda ocorre manifestando os mesmos traços peculiares observados em pesquisas das áreas de Antropologia, Sociologia e Educação as quais tomam como objeto de discussão esse povo, de cultura tão hermética. Esse isolamento dos ciganos, hipotetizamos, é observável no discurso do não-cigano por meio de informações localizadas em diversos pontos de uma sentença ou de um texto. Para lidar com esse fenômeno, recorremos às teorias givonianas (1990), em especial o princípio da iconicidade e seus subprincípios, quais sejam: de ordenação linear, de integração e de quantidade, os quais, ao se entrelaçarem, revelam a complexidade cognitiva. O reconhecimento desses ecos históricos por meios de vários tipos de documentos recolhidos de arquivos históricos e redes sociais. Ao final dessa análise, estabelecemos um contraponto com a opinião de paulistanos por meio de um questionário aleatoriamente distribuído a indivíduos de vários estratos sociais. A ideia era a de verificar se a estigmatização continuava ecoando nos discursos atuais. Concluída essa etapa da pesquisa, pudemos referendar que, a despeito do desenvolvimento humano (na concepção de Maturana e Varela, 2011), a estigmatização e o preconceito continuam andando de mãos quando o tópico é cigano. / To treat Roma (gypsy) by the sense of the non-Roma (non-gypsy) speech prompts some discussions about stigmatization and terms associated with it. This way will produce, as demonstrated in the thesis, the contribution to the (un) social prestige understanding of an isolated community. Historically, for centuries, the negative stigma rooted prejudice that echoes the social imaginary of the non-gypsies when referring to the gypsy in their discourse. This picture is still found in the 21st. century, and it is still manifesting the same peculiar traits observed in researches in the Anthropology, Sociology and Educational areas which take as their subject of discussion these people, in its so hermetic culture. It is hypothesized that this isolation of the Roma (gypsy) is observable in the discourse of non-gypsy through information located in various parts of a sentence or of a text. To deal with this phenomenon, we use the givonian theories (1990), in particular the principle of iconicity and its subprinciples, namely: linear ordination, integration and quantity, which, when intertwined, reveal the cognitive complexity. The recognition of these historical echoes by means of various documents types collected from historical archives and social networks. At the end of this analysis, we established a counterpoint to the opinion of São Paulo inhabitants (paulistanos) through a questionnaire randomly distributed to individuals from various social strata. The idea is to verify if the stigma was still echoing in today\'s speeches. On this research stage completion, we could endorse that, in spite of human development (conception of Maturana and Varela, 2011), stigmatization and prejudice continue progressing when the theme is gypsy people.

Esta tese destina-se a desenvolver estudo semiótico de propagandas impressas em que a pessoa negra é posta em presença. Investiga-se como a propaganda veiculada em revista, mediante seleção e combinação sígnicas, efetiva a construção da imagem verbo-visual do negro, tendo em vista o produto anunciado e os projetos comunicativos do enunciador e, assim, como finda por ratificar ou (re)elaborar significados sociais acerca desse sujeito. Pautando-se na Semiótica de Charles Sanders Peirce e tendo por suporte, fundamentalmente, a Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal de Simões (2009), a pesquisa aborda todos os signos verbais e não verbais em diálogo, como dotados de potencial icônico, não só revelador dos projetos de texto, como também ativador de interpretações/leituras e, ainda, delineador de sentidos, posteriormente cristalizados e convertidos em significados imanentes aos signos e aos objetos reportados. Por ter, como material constitutivo do corpus, textos elaborados em linguagem mista, a pesquisa propõe a aplicação da Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal ao universo dos signos lato sensu. O debate apresenta o texto de propaganda como excelente material, não só para implementar os estudos de História e Cultura Afro-brasileiras, como prevê a Lei 10.639/03, como também para subsidiar o ensino de língua portuguesa, com ênfase para os estudos sobre leitura e produção textual, para que se forme sujeito dotado de habilidades que lhe permitam reconhecer no verbal e no não verbal a revelação e a geração de sentidos sociais / This thesis is destined to develop the semiotics study of the printed advertisement where the black person is placed in presence. It is investigated as the advertising propagated in magazine, by means of election and meaning combination of signs accomplishes the construction of verbal/visual blacks image, in the announced products view and the communicative annunciators projects; and, thus, how it terminates for ratifying or elaborating or (re) elaborate social meanings about that being. Basing on the Semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and having for support, basically, the Theory of the Verbal Iconicidade of Simões (2009), the research approaches all the verbal signs and the no verbal ones in dialogue, as endowed with iconic potential, not only discloser of the texts projects, as well as activator of interpretations/readings and, yet, delineator of feelings, subsequently crystallized and converted into intrinsic meanings to the signs and to the reported objects. For having, as material constituent of the corpus, texts elaborated in mixing language, the research proposes the application of the Iconicity Verbal to the universe of the signs lato sensu. The discussion presents the advertisement text as excellent material not only to implement the studies of History and Culture Afro-Brazilians, as she foresees Law 10,639/03, as well as to assist the study of the Portuguese language, expressively for the studies of reading and textual production, in order to mould a being endowed with abilities that allow him to recognize in the verbal and in the no verbal, the revelation and the generation of the social feelings

O signo toponímico, cuja característica principal é a identificação de um determinado espaço, estabelecendo uma significação, em certos contextos, pode destacar traços do espaço referido, evidenciando uma iconicidade toponímica (DICK, 1990). Este estudo de caso examina, sob estes aspectos, topônimos da Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, por meio da aplicação dos modelos teóricos e metodológicos propostos por Dick no projeto Atlas Toponímico do Brasil (ATB). Considerando o contexto regional, foram selecionados 108 topônimos que designam sítios turísticos na área conhecida como Circuito do Diamante, onde estão situadas as principais cidades que, no final do século XIX, emergiram com a mineração e que, hoje, figuram como as cidades históricas de destaque no circuito turístico local: Andaraí, Lençóis, Mucugê e Palmeiras. Considerando o topônimo um traço cultural, a descrição dos ambientes físico e social é observada, com apresentação dos caracteres geográficos e dos ciclos históricos que se sucederam desde as fundações destes núcleos populacionais. A catalogação dos topônimos, em fichas lexicográfico-toponímicas (DICK, 2004), dispõe o tratamento lingüístico do corpus e acrescenta informações extralingüísticas que concorrem à compreensão dos mecanismos motivadores das nomeações. Os signos toponímicos são analisados em suas categorias semânticas e em suas propriedades icônicas. / The toponymic sign, which main characteristic is the identification of a certain location that establishes meaning, in some contexts, may emphasize some referred location features, bringing to light a kind of toponymic iconicity (DICK, 1990). The present case study explores, on these aspects, toponyms from Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, on the theoretical and methodological models presented by Dick in Atlas Toponímico do Brasil (ATB). By taking the regional context into consideration, 108 toponyms designating tour sites have been chosen from the Diamond Circuit area, where the main late 19th Century cities of Andaraí, Lençóis, Mucugê, and Palmeiras, that emerged due to mining and nowadays are important historic cities in the regional touristic circuit, are located. Having toponym as a cultural trace, physical and social environments description is performed, presenting geographic and historical cycles information, since these people settlement. The toponyms cataloging using lexigraphictoponymic forms (DICK, 2004) defines the linguistic treatment of the corpus and adds extralinguistic data, which help the understanding of naming motivation mechanisms. Toponymic signs are analyzed by their semantic categories and iconic properties

Tratar de ciganos à luz do discurso de não-ciganos pede discussões sobre estigmatização e dos termos a ela associados. Esse caminho produzirá, como demonstramos na tese, a contribuição para a compreensão do (des)prestígio social de uma comunidade isolada. Historicamente, por séculos, a estigmatização negativa arraiga o preconceito que ecoa no imaginário social do não-cigano ao referir o cigano. Esse quadro ainda é constatado no século XXI, e ainda ocorre manifestando os mesmos traços peculiares observados em pesquisas das áreas de Antropologia, Sociologia e Educação as quais tomam como objeto de discussão esse povo, de cultura tão hermética. Esse isolamento dos ciganos, hipotetizamos, é observável no discurso do não-cigano por meio de informações localizadas em diversos pontos de uma sentença ou de um texto. Para lidar com esse fenômeno, recorremos às teorias givonianas (1990), em especial o princípio da iconicidade e seus subprincípios, quais sejam: de ordenação linear, de integração e de quantidade, os quais, ao se entrelaçarem, revelam a complexidade cognitiva. O reconhecimento desses ecos históricos por meios de vários tipos de documentos recolhidos de arquivos históricos e redes sociais. Ao final dessa análise, estabelecemos um contraponto com a opinião de paulistanos por meio de um questionário aleatoriamente distribuído a indivíduos de vários estratos sociais. A ideia era a de verificar se a estigmatização continuava ecoando nos discursos atuais. Concluída essa etapa da pesquisa, pudemos referendar que, a despeito do desenvolvimento humano (na concepção de Maturana e Varela, 2011), a estigmatização e o preconceito continuam andando de mãos quando o tópico é cigano. / To treat Roma (gypsy) by the sense of the non-Roma (non-gypsy) speech prompts some discussions about stigmatization and terms associated with it. This way will produce, as demonstrated in the thesis, the contribution to the (un) social prestige understanding of an isolated community. Historically, for centuries, the negative stigma rooted prejudice that echoes the social imaginary of the non-gypsies when referring to the gypsy in their discourse. This picture is still found in the 21st. century, and it is still manifesting the same peculiar traits observed in researches in the Anthropology, Sociology and Educational areas which take as their subject of discussion these people, in its so hermetic culture. It is hypothesized that this isolation of the Roma (gypsy) is observable in the discourse of non-gypsy through information located in various parts of a sentence or of a text. To deal with this phenomenon, we use the givonian theories (1990), in particular the principle of iconicity and its subprinciples, namely: linear ordination, integration and quantity, which, when intertwined, reveal the cognitive complexity. The recognition of these historical echoes by means of various documents types collected from historical archives and social networks. At the end of this analysis, we established a counterpoint to the opinion of São Paulo inhabitants (paulistanos) through a questionnaire randomly distributed to individuals from various social strata. The idea is to verify if the stigma was still echoing in today\'s speeches. On this research stage completion, we could endorse that, in spite of human development (conception of Maturana and Varela, 2011), stigmatization and prejudice continue progressing when the theme is gypsy people.