This study was an exploration of adults with long-term hearing loss (LTHL) and how it may relate to social intelligence (SI) proficiency. The outcome of this study was intended to illuminate a gap in the literature, namely, the manner in which those with long-term LTHL were able to understand social situations and communicate with others when auditory comprehension was limited. A quantitative nonexperimental method was used that provided the Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS) to a group of 66 adults with LTHL who were diagnosed with hearing loss as children, as well as a group of 70 adults with no discernable hearing loss (NDHL). The TSIS was used to determine if those with LTHL would have scored higher on the total scale score and the subscales of social information processing and social awareness, than would those with NDHL. The results of the study were determined by an independent t test. There was no significant difference in the total scale and subscale scores between LTHL and NDHL for this relatively small samples study. These findings could aid the hearing loss community at large through a focus on SI skills to improve confidence and communication for those with LTHL. One social change benefit of this study demonstrates that SI for people with LTHL is comparable to people with NDHL. Such a finding suggests that while people with LTHL did not rate higher in SI, they also are not impaired in social situations because of their hearing loss.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:43:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2171395 bytes, checksum: fa1e469100d4851d44e6ff12dfa15500 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / With this research, our general objective is to make explicit how the argumentation construction in the Brazilian sign language (LIBRAS) is processed, based on a corpus comprising 12 video filmings, from which we selected four episodes to analysis. Ten deaf subjects took part in these, children and adolescents, regularly enrolled in the first series of elementary and secondary school in a certain public school of the state network in the city of Recife, PE, ranging from 04 to 14 years of age and an average time of five years of LIBRAS acquisition. We started out, so, from the hypotheses that the argumentation in LIBRAS happens in consonance with the acquisition of other discursive movements and it is built by means of strategies also based on non-verbal language with emphasis on proxemics and kinesics. The theoretical support to our investigation associates propositions of cognitive psychology and interactive linguistics, since both privilege dialogical and sociohistorical aspects as for the treatment of the language. The analysis pointed out the fact that the argumentation in LIBRAS appears in consonance with other discursive movements of resuming and topic switching argumentative activities frequently marked, par excellence, by the proxemics movement, besides by alterations in movement speed, body expression and facial extent and hand tension, used by LIBRAS speakers as strategies typical of this language during the argumentation, because of its space-visual nature. The results point out the fact that the argumentation emerges, in LIBRAS, just as it occurs in oral languages. / Com esta pesquisa, nosso objetivo geral é explicitar como se processa a construção da argumentação na língua brasileira de sinais (LIBRAS), baseada em um corpus constituído por 12 filmagens em vídeo, das quais selecionamos quatro episódios para análise. Deles participaram 10 sujeitos surdos, crianças e adolescentes, regularmente matriculados nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental, em uma escola da rede pública estadual, na cidade de Recife, PE, com idades entre 04 e 14 anos e um tempo médio de cinco anos de aquisição da LIBRAS. Partimos, então, das hipóteses de que a argumentação na LIBRAS se dá em consonância com a aquisição de outros movimentos discursivos e se constrói mediante estratégias também baseadas na linguagem não verbal, com ênfase na proxêmica e na cinésica. O respaldo teórico para nossa investigação combina propostas da psicologia cognitiva e da linguística interacional, uma vez que ambas privilegiam aspectos socio-históricos e dialógicos no trato da linguagem. A análise apontou para o fato de que a argumentação na LIBRAS surge em consonância a outros movimentos discursivos de retomada e deslocamento atividade argumentativa frequentemente marcada, por excelência, pelo movimento da proxêmica, além das alterações na velocidade do movimento, da amplitude na expressão corporal e facial e da tensão na mão, empregados pelos falantes da LIBRAS como estratégias próprias dessa língua durante a argumentação, em razão da sua natureza espaçovisual. Os resultados demonstram que argumentação emerge na LIBRAS, tal como ocorre nas línguas orais.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O tema deste trabalho está voltado para a representação a respeito da Língua Brasileira de Sinais Libras que realizam os sujeitos surdos, diante de aspectos do Exame Nacional para Certificação de Proficiência no uso e ensino da Libras Prolibras, em Roraima. Os aspectos referem-se aos dados estatísticos em Roraima ouvintes e surdos inscritos, presentes, habilitados e aprovados no exame. Relacionam-se também ao caráter do exame, que une teste de proficiência e certificação profissional. Além das etapas (prova prática e prova objetiva) e formato das avaliações. O principal objetivo é investigar a representação da língua de sinais para os sujeitos surdos em relação às questões do Prolibras. A partir desta questão primordial desenvolveram-se outros desdobramentos, como a discussão de identidade, cultura e surdez. Para a realização desta pesquisa, foram utilizadas como registro de dados, as técnicas de grupo focal e as entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Após registro de dados, a análise foi construída diante das percepções que os sujeitos surdos expuseram sobre três eixos temáticos que delimitaram este trabalho, são eles: 1) Libras; 2) Proficiência; e 3) Prolibras. As reflexões, sobre a impressão dos participantes surdos, resultaram num novo olhar e percepção a respeito da língua de sinais e desdobramentos do Prolibras: o entendimento das vivências surdas através da visão dos sujeitos que as realizam. / The theme of this work is focused on the representation about the Brazilian Sign Language - Libras - which perform the deaf, faced with aspects of the National Examination for Certification of Proficiency in the use and teaching of Pounds - Prolibras in Roraima. Aspects refer to the statistical data in Roraima - hearing and deaf subscribers, gifts, qualified and passed the examination. Are also related to the character of the examination, which unites proficiency testing and professional certification. In addition to the steps (practical test and objective test) and format of assessments. The main objective is to investigate the representation of sign language for deaf people in relation to the issues of Prolibras. From this key issue have developed other developments, as the discussion of identity, culture and deafness. For this research, were used as data logging, the techniques of focus group and semi-structured interviews. After recording data, the analysis was built on the perceptions of deaf people exposed on three themes that marked out this work, they are: 1) Libras, 2) proficiency, and 3) Prolibras. Reflections on the printing of the deaf participants resulted in a new perspective and perception about the sign language and splits the Prolibras: understanding the deaf experiences through the vision of subjects who perform it.

The topic of this diploma thesis is an analysis of history of special language of architecture in Paul Decker´s ?Ausführliche Anleitung zur Civilbaukunst (Bd.1)?. This thesis is divided into nine basic parts. The first, second and third parts characterize the special language, baroque and Paul Decker´s life and work. The following parts concentrate on the analysis of the special language presenting in this Decker´s work, that means on morphology, word-formative processes, the role of metaphors and foreign words, polysemy and synonyms, hyponyms, hyperonyms and co-hyponyms as well as the relation between verbal and nonverbal language part.

The main objective of this research is to analyze the influence of nonverbal language (together with verbal) in EFL classroom interaction. Starting from the concept of language as a social activity and basing our studies in Discourse Analysis, Conversational Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics, I developed a micro analysis of discourse study which happened at the extension school of English from the Federal University of Alagoas. The corpus was defined by audio and video recordings and its transcriptions, interviews and questionnaires. Among many types of nonverbal language, I chose as the focus of our investigation the smile (EKMAN, 2003; PEASE and PEASE, 2005; CARVALHO, 1999; KINDE, 1999) because it showed out to be an important element to increase classroom interaction through a convivial strategy (used by the teacher as a balance between the instructional and the spontaneous discourse, based on KRAMSCH, 1987); to promote a funny learning environment through teacher and learners own experiences and to reprimand learners (exerting power and saving face) for not doing their homework. These three types of smile contributed to lower the affective filter, increase interaction and consequently improve students learning. In pedagogical terms, the classroom showed to be a place where teacher and students build up a learning and teaching culture and where the smile helped keep interaction high, developing a convivial environment which affected students learning positively. / O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é analisar a influência da linguagem não-verbal (juntamente com a verbal) na interação de sala de aula de Língua Inglesa como língua estrangeira. Partindo de um conceito de linguagem como atividade social e tendo como base os estudos na área da Análise do Discurso, Análise da Conversação e Sociolingüística Interacional, desenvolvi um estudo micro-analítico do discurso que aconteceu na extensão da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Casa de Cultura Britânica). O corpus foi definido por gravações em áudio e vídeo e transcrições, entrevistas e questionários. Entre os muitos tipos de linguagem não verbal, escolhi como foco da nossa investigação o sorriso (EKMAN, 2003; PEASE & PEASE, 2005; CARVALHO, 1999; KINDE, 1999; dentre outros) devido ao fato de o sorriso ter se mostrado um elemento importante que contribuiu para aumentar a interação em sala de aula através da estratégia de convívio (estratégia usada pelo professor que funciona como um balanço entre o discurso instrucional e o espontâneo, baseado em Kramsch, 1987); para promover um ambiente de aprendizado divertido através das próprias experiências do professor e dos aprendizes e para repreender os alunos (exercendo poder e salvando a face) por não fazerem as tarefas pedidas. Os tipos de sorriso observados contribuíram para diminuir o filtro afetivo entre o professor e os alunos, aumentando a interação e consequentemente a produção e aprendizado dos mesmos. Em termos pedagógicos, a sala de aula se mostrou um lugar onde os participantes envolvidos constroem uma cultura de aprender e ensinar e também um lugar onde o sorriso ajudou a aumentar a interação, desenvolvendo um ambiente de convívio que afetou o aprendizado dos alunos positivamente.

Beginning with birth, typically developing children use strategies to communicate, and the functions of their language change with maturation and interaction. Since communication cannot exist if both parties do not participate, it is important to not only study the ability of the child, but also the behavior of the adult. Numerous studies have examined the behavior of the parent or other domestic adult, but few have included the study of teacher behaviors. This study investigated teachers’ response to four types of nonverbal communication attempts made by infants. The gestures included: deictic, affect signaling, object-related, and conventional. The type of response was also documented as facilitating dialogue or discouraging dialogue. Thirty infant teachers and/or teacher assistants from 11 centers in Northeast Tennessee were videotaped for 30 minutes. Videos were coded to determine which of the defined functions teachers were most likely to respond to and if the response facilitated or discouraged dialogue. The results showed that overall, teachers responded to 25% of nonverbal attempts; 75% of the infants’ nonverbal attempts teacher offered a non-facilitative response or missed the gesture. Pearson correlations determined that there were relationships between children’s attempt to communicate and teachers’ response in all four types of nonverbal communication, including deictic, r (30) = .659, p = .000; affect signaling, r (30) = .917, p = .000; object-related, r (30) =.848, p = .000; and conventional, r (30) = .794, p = .000. There were several relationships between the number of nonverbal attempts by children and teachers offering a facilitative responses including affect signaling, r (30) = .776, p = .000; object-related, r (30) = .635, p = .000; and conventional, r (30) = .514, p = .004, but not with deictic attempts. There were relationships between the number of nonverbal attempts by children and teachers offering discouraging responses in all 4 types of nonverbal language, including deictic, r (30) = .706, p = .000; affect signaling, r (30) = .630, p = .000; object-related, r (30) = .582, p = .001; and conventional, r (30) = .439, p = .015.

I became aware of the frequency of the traumatic effect of parental divorce on the lives of the children involved. My research intervention is investigating what value working with clay as therapeutic medium could have for young children from divorced homes. I used non-directive instruction to see whether it enabled children to relate and express their personal experiences more easily . Some children seemed hesitant about projecting their own emotions onto the clay models but, in the end, rich information and spontaneous communication was achieved. The analysis and interpretation of the data from the therapy sessions clearly showed the value of using clay as a therapeutic medium when working with children from divorced homes. By expressing and sharing feelings and emotions experienced during and after parental divorce, the participants indicated that it helped them to work through guilt and other issues, and to come to terms with the reality of the changes in their lives. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Guidance and Counselling)

I became aware of the frequency of the traumatic effect of parental divorce on the lives of the children involved. My research intervention is investigating what value working with clay as therapeutic medium could have for young children from divorced homes. I used non-directive instruction to see whether it enabled children to relate and express their personal experiences more easily . Some children seemed hesitant about projecting their own emotions onto the clay models but, in the end, rich information and spontaneous communication was achieved. The analysis and interpretation of the data from the therapy sessions clearly showed the value of using clay as a therapeutic medium when working with children from divorced homes. By expressing and sharing feelings and emotions experienced during and after parental divorce, the participants indicated that it helped them to work through guilt and other issues, and to come to terms with the reality of the changes in their lives. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Guidance and Counselling)