Toponímia em Libras: Descrição e análise dos sinais das escolas de Araguaína - TO

Abstract

Our research aims to study the toponymic signs of public, state and private schools in the city of Araguaína, under the perspective of Toponymy studies, whose area is part of Onomastic, which studies proper names. For this, we carried out a survey of the corpus in nineteen elementary and high schools, verifying the toponymic motivations of each name, based on documents collected from the school secretariats. All information was recorded using lexicographic-toponymic forms, which are included in the appendix of our research. Thus, through the observation and description of the data, we identified the specificities of the toponyms, so that a qualitative analysis could be carried out for the categories of names according to the work of the following theorists, Dick (1990, 1998), Seabra (2006), Souza Júnior (2012), Sousa Martins (2017), Siqueira (2011), Faggion, Misturini and Dal Pizzol (2013) among others. Our research identified that the names of schools in Araguaína may be the result of political indication, religious reasons or a request from the community itself, although we know that the maintenance or not of a toponym can also be determined by the meanings that the population establishes about it. Finally, we believe that our research will bring a contribution to toponymic studies in the city of Araguaína, especially for school education for the deaf, as well as for the deaf community in the northern region of Tocantins.