O gênero cantiga de ninar, do mundo ouvinte ao mundo surdo

Abstract

The present research has the purpose to analyse the genre of lullaby with listeners and deaf women, considering theirs voices, their bodies, their performances, their songs and things like that. The theoretical bases are supported by Zumthor’s linguistic principles concerned with oral production; by the ideas of Leite de Vasconcelos, concerned with lullabies, and also by Skliar whose social anthropological studies investigated the differences between listerns and deaf people. Besides this triad, this research takes account of the studies of genre by Bakhtin and Schneuwly; the psychoanalysis bases of Freud and Lacan described by Jorge, and, finally, the search takes a stand on the ethonolinguistic studies of Castro. The studies constitute the analysis of the lullaby of public domain Neném quer dormir, the influences of Portuguese and African culture on the performance of two listeners women and with subsequent variations; the performance of two deaf women singing authentics lullabies; and the considerations of a child of deaf adults and used to sing deaf lullabies to her. In order to do that, the hypotheses of divergent and convergent aspects of lullabies sung by listeners and deaf women are analysed under the view of Linguistics. These studies point out to the possibilities to enlarge the knowledge of the genre lullaby under an oral perspective, as well as to unveil the range of lullabies prevailing in the word of deaf people. There is no intention to exhaust the theme, but to bring contributions to it, perhaps to open up interest of researchers in Linguistics an related areas.