Representações da surdez no discurso oficial: uma análise a partir da lei 13.146/2015

Abstract

Official documents published since 2000 to ensure the rights of persons with disabilities, among them the deaf ones, bring aspects related to their education, work, communication, and others. The needing of these documents indicates that the inclusion of deaf persons is still a subject that needs regulations so that reinforced. Based on these assumptions, this research deals with the meanings about deafness in the Official Law Statute nº 13.146/2015, beyond analyses their disabilities and implications of their culture in the Law Constitution and research the characteristics of bilingual education in official discourse. For the analysis of the corpus, composed by the articles 1º, 2º, 3º, 5th, 8th, 27th and 28th of the Law above mentioned prioritized the theoretical rationale analysis discourse about the interface of deaf persons studies. The assumptions of the analysis contributed to the perception of the ideological aspects presented in the discursive constructions of deaf ones while high lightening the relevance of the discursive aspects of powering relations, politics and identities. These understanding statements marked the ideologies that deafness are not only on what is said, but on also what is silenced or said otherwise. The results indicate that in the Official Law Statute nº 13.146/2015 people with disabilities share the same identity and conception of homogenization of deficiencies besides the presence of two cultural artifacts of the deaf in the constitution of the law, named Signals Language and Bilingual Education. However, at other times, the document has the sense effect of deafness as a pathology or disability - and not as a difference - and Signal Language equated with Assistive Technology. Given that bilingual education is beyond the Linguistic, including political and cultural issues, it is possible to consider the use of the term Bilingualism, as proposed by Mignolo (2013), as an adjective for the deaf subjects, education, school, and deaf student’s classes.