CONSTRUCTION OF AN ACADEMIC GLOSSARY OF LIBRAS: TERM-SIGNS OF THE PHYSIOTHERAPY AREA
Terminology, Health, Libras Glossary, Physiotherapy.
This present dissertation is part of the research line 'Lexicon and Terminology' of the Graduate Program in Linguistics - PPGL at the University of Brasília - UnB, where we present a proposal for building a glossary consisting of term-signs from the field of Physiotherapy, in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Our objective is to organize a specific set of terms from the field of physiotherapy, seeking data and records of terms used by Deaf faculty, Deaf students, and Deaf professionals. The term-signs used in physiotherapy from different regions of Brazil, as well as those found in sign language dictionaries in the field of health and physiotherapy, will be researched and recorded in the glossary. Therefore, our overall goal is to build a corpus of term-signs from the field of physiotherapy in circulation in Brazil, analyze them, and organize them into a glossary specific to this specialized area, physiotherapy. As a theoretical and methodological basis for studying, understanding, and elaborating the glossary, I will follow the studies of Faulstich (1995), Ferreira (2013), Castro Junior (2014), Tuxi (2017), Prometi (2020), and Biderman (2001), among other researchers and scholars. The adopted methodological procedures will be: a) selection of term-signs; b) group discussion within the research team regarding the concepts and definitions of the terms and the creation of term-signs; c) organization and video recording, as well as photographic registration, of the physiotherapy term-signs; d) validation of the term-signs by a team of Deaf professionals and Deaf students; e) organization of terminological records for the term-signs; f) compilation and publication of the Libras Glossary containing the term-signs related to the field of Physiotherapy. The terminological record template includes an image, concept, and term-sign from the field of physiotherapy, with the use of QR Code to provide access to video views of the term-signs on YouTube. We expect that the construction of this Libras glossary of term-signs in the specialty of Physiotherapy will contribute to linguistic studies in Libras, benefiting both Deaf and non-Deaf professionals working in the field, as well as Deaf and non-Deaf students, translators, and interpreters of Libras in training, and institutions in the healthcare sector.