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STUDENT : JONES DIAS DE ALMEIDA
DATE: 26/05/2023
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

Basic color terms in Libras and Portuguese: a comparative study

KEY WORDS:

Libras, Portuguese language, basic color terms and sign language

PAGES: 73
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
SUMMARY:

The basic color terms were defined based on criteria proposed by the anthropological linguists Berlin and Kay (B&K) in 1969, and resulted in the following colors also called focal colors, like in Portuguese: white, black, red, green, yellow , blue, brown, purple, pink, orange and gray, terms that constitute, according to the authors, the universal semantic of color and appear in a gradual order, in which white and black head this order and purple, gray, pink and orange an ultimatum. Each of these terms constitutes the best example of each color category as they name those categories. There is a possibility that the number of terms is different between the languages, but there are indications of a universal sharing of repertoire related to colors that necessarily vary between 2 and 11 terms mentioned above. Although the debate over categorization of basic terms for heads is wide with oral languages, as evidenced by recurrent studies in Kay (1975); Kay & McDaniel (1978); Kay, Berlin & Merrifield (1991); Kay & Maffi (1999); Kay & Regier (2006); Kay & Regier (2007); Taylor, J.R. (1995); Davies & Corbett (1994), we still have little information related to sign languages (cf. Zeshan & Sagara, 2016, with the main studies on color terminology in sign languages). In this sense, this research intends to verify if in the Brazilian Sign Language there are restrictions and the universal repertoire of color proposed by the B&K Theory about categorization of basic terms for colors, as well as to compare if there are traces of divergence and convergence with Portuguese - This is a comparative descriptive behavioral study, in which these two languages of different modality will be investigated. The proposed study is something continuous in Brazil, because above all it intends to make use of behavioral tasks with a broad behavioral sample from the description, survey and analysis of data based on the theoretical-methodological requests of Hollman and Uuskula (2012) and Hollman (2010). Two tasks were carried out: one for naming and the other for listing colors; and two analyses, a general one, which considers all participants, and a reduced one, with an equivalent number of participants between languages. The results of the general analysis indicated that the basic color TBCs were more salient in both languages. Primary and secondary color groupings were also found, except for the terms brown and pink in Libras. The reduced analysis, with a smaller number of participants, confirmed the salience of the TBCs, but with some differences in relation to the general analysis, such as the increase in the highlight value of the pink and beige colors in Portuguese and the decrease in the number of distinct terms in Pounds. The results confirm the salience of TBCs and identify the best examples of these color terms in both languages.

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