Vision plasticity: the speech place

• Grant number: 13/08901-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Maria Célia Pereira Lima Hernandes
• Grantee: Isabela Pereira da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to open a discussion about the relation between mental plasticity and linguistics plasticity. For that, conformities of linguistics categories are analyzed by the study of linguistics categories that involve physical space. A basic question reveals itself by the way that blind persons, under a different perception of physical space, who use categories of linguistics that are built by users who are able to see. This other way of perception is read by the ones that can see as identical in it's use. However, the blind ones can't "see" exactly the same way. This is the focus the study that will mobilize the word THROUGH as a mot for description and following discussions. (AU)