Adaptação/apagamento:

Reflexões e provocações sobre a língua brasileira de sinais

Abstract

This paper proposes to problematize and encourage teachers and teacher trainers in Libras and other languages ​​(mother or foreign) to (re)think about the meanings constructed and conveyed by the discourses of theoretical-methodological-analytical adaptation and curricular adaptation with regard to educational contexts involving deaf people. Based on this discussion, we asked if theories based on descriptive and analytical premises of oral languages, as well as their respective methodological processes, would contemplate the specificities of sign languages, in our case, Libras or if, on the other hand, they would not incur a movement of erasure of such singularities. Based on an ethical-political stance, and according to the reflections built in this paper, we understand that such adaptation movements seem to neglect the needs and interests of the deaf population and, therefore, assume ways of erasing the particularities of these citizens. Adapting refracts the meaning of erasing which, in turn, acts as a maintaining force of the prevailing hegemonic forms. We realize that the deaf subject is not seen from his realities, since the teaching-learning processes and research that involves him are naturalized, having the listener as a reference. Therefore, the latter is also a linguistic normative parameter sewn by the cisheteropatriarcal, white and Christian social structure of our national context. The text ends with an invitation to reflection, reconceptualization and action.