Porto das Letras (Dec 2019)
Reforma do Ensino Médio: Política Linguística Negativa sobre a Língua Brasileira de Sinais
Abstract
This article discusses high school reform, in particular its impacts on the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). It analyzes the negative impacts that the reform provokeson the recognition, value, diffusion and teaching of Libras in basic education, inasmuch asit institutes only the English language teaching as a compulsory subject in high school in Brazil. According to Philipson (1992), linguistic imperialism, in particular of the English language, stands as a strategy of imposition on other languages and cultures, which risk seeing their language and culture erased by strategies of linguistic imperialism. It also discusses high school reform as a negative and exclusionary linguistic policy towards minority languages and Libras,the national language of the deaf people. In this sense, there is an urgent need to discuss the danger of high school reform in homogenizing and devaluing sign languages and other minority languages in Brazil, as a negative and exclusionary linguistic policy.
