A multimodalidade gesto-fala na produção de gêneros. orais: receita culinária, relato de experiência e autobiografia de crianças moçambicanas falantes de português e ndawu

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze how children speaking two different languages, Portuguese and Ndawu in Mozambique, use gestures and speech during the production of oral genres, autobiography, experience reports and culinary recipes. Ndawu is a Bantu language spoken by around 836,038 people, in the central region of Mozambique, in the provinces of Sofala and Manica, and a part of the northern part of the province of Inhambane (southern part of the country), it is also spoken in the Republic of Zimbabwe. This study in terms of approach is qualitative, in terms of objectives it is descriptive-exploratory and in terms of procedures it is field-based. The methodology applied in data collection was recording videos of children, individually in a naturalistic environment, counting the oral genres under study in both languages, in the presence of their parents, or guardians, local structures and the researcher. The videos analyzed were selected by drawing 36 videos (6 for each child, 3 in ndawu and 3 in Portuguese) from 6 children. These videos were transcribed and analyzed using ELAN software. In the analyses, we rely on Galhano-Rodrigues (2008) regarding the categories of gesture description and the different types of gestural space, articulation angle and range of movement; Kendon (1982), the typology of gestures composed of gesticulations, emblems, filling gestures and pantomimes; McNeill (1992), the gestural dimensions composed of: iconic, deictic, metaphorical and rhythmic gestures. The gestures analyzed were those of the hands that occur spontaneously when we speak. The results obtained showed the existence of differences and coincidences in gestural production in the three genres and the predominant gestures in them are pantomimic, iconic + rhythmic, and emblematic + deictic + rhythmic. The Ndawu language produced more gestures, with a greater incidence for pantomimic and emblematic. To conclude, gestures in Ndawu are produced below the abdomen while in Portuguese, in the central area of the abdomen.