COMMUNICATION FROM BODY LANGUAGE READING IN YOUNG PERSONS WITH HEARING DISABILITIES

Objective: To interpret the structure of non-verbal language from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels of communication and its models for determining the action of a gesture as a sign in young persons with hearing disabilities. Material and Methods: The semiotic study presents recognition of underlying rules to encoded languages. In this research the nature of the gestural phenomenon was studied in depth; observation protocols were applied and records on film were carried out and submitted to microanalysis of each scene and individual sequences which resulted in more detailed descriptions of those gestures that helped to answer the research question. Results: The non-hearing community communicates in a way as fluent as hearing people do using a differentiated system –sign language– that also implies the use of alternate signs that are able to enrich the transmission process and message reception. Conclusion: The sign in communication of the deaf people takes different forms; encoded languages is one of them, being this one the grammatical structure of the manual or sign language; phonic sounds, lip-reading and body language make part of the non-encoded language, elements that are exposed in a spontaneous way during communication.