THE BODILY COMMUNICATION IN THE GAME GOALBALL
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.43323Keywords:
Language. Goalball. Visually impaired persons.Abstract
The present study analyzed body communication of visually impaired goalball athletes. It is a descriptive, qualitative and Barthesian-semiological study. The sample consisted of 22 male athletes. The final match of Brazil’s North-Northeast Championship of Goalball was recorded and analyzed. Results describe signifiers of the game’s moves at Expression Level, showing motion-perceptive wealth; at the Content Level, it describes multiple cognitive, emotional and sociocultural meanings of players’ movements. Goalball is found to be an educational game because, besides its coordination communication complexity, it allows players to expand their attention to their whole bodies.
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