ENTRE A INCLUSÃO E A EXCLUSÃO: CAMINHOS DA EDUCAÇÃO DE SURDOS NO BRASIL

Abstract

Today, we live in societies that face their dichotomous extremes. The power relations established in them make their own victims of exclusion (ORTÙZAR, 2016). These issues are prioritized by researchers in Critical Dis-course Analysis (CDA) (FAIRCLOUGH, 2008); whose main objective is to study social practices from dominated groups’ perspective. For that, we chose the deaf community as a vulnerable group and the objective of analyzing, linguistically and socio-discursively, fragments of documents pointing to the deaf’s claims, regarding their right to bilingual education, culture and identity. We applied the methodology in a qualitative and interpretative way. The corpora are: Law No. 10.436, of April 24th, 2002; Decree No. 5.626, of December 22nd, 2005; an Open Letter, written by Deaf Ph. Ds (2012); public hearing statement (2019). The results indicated that the documents offer conditions to recover the discursive and socio-historical memory of the deaf community and their struggle for bilingual education.

Keywords

• critical discourse analysis
• deaf community
• documents
• bilingual education