A RELAÇÃO ENTRE A DIREÇÃO DO OLHAR E A REGIÃO DE CONTATO EM BOIAS DE LISTAGEM NA LIBRAS

Abstract

According to Liddell (2003), list buoys are generally used when the signer wants to refer to more than one referent in sequence. Heitkoetter and Xavier (2020, 2021) carried out a detailed study of list buoys in Libras, based on data collected from YouTube videos of two deaf signers from Paraná, a man and a woman. With these studies, the authors show that such constructions can be of different types, namely, fixed, sequential and mixed with or without perseveration. This work, an excerpt from Heitkoetter (2024), whose general objective was to present an in-depth analysis of previous analyses, specifically reports the results obtained regarding the relationship between eyegaze and the contact region on the non-dominant hand which is touched by the dominant hand during the production of list buoys. The results obtained show variability in types both eyegaze (downward, forward, leftward and rightward), and in the region of contact (back, tip, friction, radial and ulnar surface). As each subject showed preference for one type of eyegaze and contact region, no correlation between them were observed.