Variação linguística na Língua Brasileira de Sinais : um estudo comparativo em escolas de surdos no Sul do Brasil

Abstract

Living in society, connecting the different centers of coexistence: school, home, work, friendships, is a challenge. The linguistic variety found in each of these issues represents the richness of the interactions; however, can also show prejudices and wrong ideas about the use of these interactions. This research, carried out under the Master?s Degree Program in Languages at Universidade de Caxias do Sul, has the goal of identifying how the phonological rules of the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) of two school communities' speeches characterize as variants. For such, the Helen Keller School for the Deaf and the Association of Great Florianópolis were chosen, both responsible for mediating knowledge to the deaf. Methodologically, the research was based on a qualitative approach. Initially, 60 signs related to the school environment were selected, through videos of students obtained from schools. The researcher then photographed herself reproducing a clipping of fifteen signals that presented variation. Linguistic variations in sign languages were analyzed under the Sociolinguistics perspective. The research included mainly the work of Sociolinguistics author Labov (2008), as well as authors of the area of deafness such as Quadros (2004), Strobel (2009), Stokoe (1960), among others. It was concluded that deaf students make use of linguistic variations in their discourses, and these variations are a natural process that occur in Libras. Despite the use of variations in communities being natural, inside the school there is a linguistic fragility caused by unfamiliarity of the variations held by students, since teachers feels the need for standardization. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]