Abstract
RESUMO Como parte de um projeto de pesquisa de dois anos, o estudo examina a iconicidade diagramática da forma de mão Y de duas línguas de sinais não-cognatas; a língua de sinais americana e a língua de sinais grega. Em uma amostra de sessenta e quatro sinais, e através de uma metodologia de leitura próxima, o estudo demonstra a associação da forma de mão específica com referentes do mundo real que têm simultaneamente forma redonda e angular (por exemplo, cilíndrica, cônica), ou apenas forma angular/linear. Também apoia a sua associação histórica com o antigo signo mano cornuta, abordando sua metonímia em significados relativos à quantidade, terra, vida, perda, luz e cavidade.
Highlights
The study is part of a two-year post-doctoral project (February 2014 - March 2016) on the symbolism of closed phonology of natural languages, which was conducted in the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas - RS, Brasil
VAN DER KOOIJ; CRASBORN, 2016) as in American Sign Language (ASL) and Greek Sign Language (GSL), this paper aims to show some convergent mapping in certain context and for similar and/ or the same referents
In ASL, the handshape more frequently refers to meanings of ‘quantity, measurement and time’, and ‘land, location, reference and presence’, whereas in GSL, it appears more frequently in meanings of ‘motion’ ‘quantity, measurement and time’, and ‘life/animals’
Summary
The study is part of a two-year post-doctoral project (February 2014 - March 2016) on the symbolism of closed phonology of natural languages (spoken and signed), which was conducted in the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas - RS, Brasil. It examined the Y-handshape as a closed phoneme of signed languages (SLs), next to A-handshape and its allophones (e.g. the S-handshape, Å-handshape), on the basis of diagrammatic iconicity, according to which forms (e.g. phonemes) are diagrams or icons that “represent the relations of the parts of one thing by analogous relations in their own parts” (WAUGH, 1994, p.56), resembling and/or imitating objects in respect to similarity of relations among their parts. The study adopts the typology of symbolism by Hinton, Nichols and Ohala (1994, p.4) as the direct linkage between form and meaning, where certain phonemes and suprasegmentals “are chosen to consistently represent visual, tactile, or proprioceptive properties of objects, such
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