THE BODILY COMMUNICATION IN THE GAME GOALBALL

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...

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Autores: Gomes-da-Silva, Pierre Normando, Almeida, Júlia Elisa Albuquerque de, Antério, Djavan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Movimento (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:portugués
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OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/43323
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/43323
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Language. Goalball. Visually impaired persons.
Lenguaje. Goalball. Personas con daño visual.
Linguagem. Goalball. Pessoas com deficiência visual.
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Educação Física
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Sumario: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.