CREATION OF TERM SIGNS: TREATMENT AND TERM DESCRIPTION FOR DESCRIPTION FOR COVID-19 IN SIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

This article is about the creation of term signs in Brazilian Language Signs for the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective, therefore, was to investigate and describe the process of creating new endpoints related to the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, due to social isolation, the field of research has become virtual using platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It is based on the morphology of Sign Language (Quadros & Karnopp, 2004). For the phonetic and morphological description, it was used Nascimento (2009) and Abreu (2019), regarding the process of creating new term signs. This analysis was focused on the study of three-term signs, the first to emerge was the one agreed in China with a mistaken conceptual reference that the disease was transmitted by bats, so it was abandoned. The second is a universalized convention that is “standard” in European and Western countries. And the third agreed in Brazil is the variant used in country.

Keywords
Morphology; Covid-19; Brazilian Sign Language