Uma ferramenta para o acesso à justiça : padronização ou convencionalização de termos-conceitos-jurídicos em Libras

There are many challenges for the Sign Language and Portuguese Translator and Interpreter (TILSP) when working in a legal context, due to the excessive formality and specialized and complex terminologies, which generate linguistic distance on a semantic-pragmatic level, highlighting (inter)intralingual problems. The specialized training of TILSP’s and the development of translation skills and competencies are essential, according to the arguments of Machado (2017), since their presence alone does not imply accessibility in the legal context. In this context, among all the challenges for TILSP's performance, the terminological issue stands out, since the legal vocabulary is already distant from citizens who have Portuguese as their first language. In this sense, it is proposed to investigate the correlation between the lack of terminological standardization in Libras and the lack of communicational accessibility of deaf signers in the legal context. The present research is affiliated with the precepts of Cognitive Linguistics (CL), starting from the studies of Cognitive/Lexical Semantics, going through pragmatic constructions and studies of polysemy, intending to investigate how the cognitive processing of TILSP occurs in relation to grammatical constructions (GOLDBERG, 1995; BYBEE, 2016) and radial categorization of linguistic schemes (LAKOFF, 1987) referring to legal terminologies, as well as the breach of the principle of linguistic cooperation (GRICE, 1982) as a result of the lack of standardization of legal terminologies in Libras, proposing the standardization of legal terms-signs that serve as a contribution to the creation of a Bilingual Legal Dictionary of Libras and Portuguese. The corpus was created from an activity developed in the subject of Translation and Interpretation in a Legal Context, taught by Prof. Dr. Flávia Machado, in the 6th period class of the Literature/Libras course (UFES). The method is a qualitative proposal, based on data collection...