Abstracts Language, Literature, and Linguistic

Os (des)encontros polifônicos nas práticas discursivas e no fazer pedagógico de professores surdos do curso de Letras Libras da UFRN

by Hadassa Freire Gomes Rodrigues de Araújo

This research aims to analyze polyphony traits in the discursive and pedagogical practices of the Deaf professors from Letras Libras curse from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, as well as to understand the ways of the construction of polyphonic body of Deaf subject, considering it is grotesque (BAKHTIN, 2010). This research points there is a diverse unexplored content in the discursive field of Libras that makes possible a wide discursive analyze, based on concrete statement, from scope and enunciative situation it is involved and bodies presented in the enunciative process. This research has as base Applied Linguistics studies, because, as a scientific area, it aims to investigate language as a social practice, in the diverse contexts that provides important questions related to the use of language. It sustains this analyze has a great relevance to the theoretical-methodological studies from Applied Linguistic, since it is a linguistic, didactic, pedagogical corpus that emphasizes South voices, voices from the edge, covering some characteristics related to trans-disciplinarity and transgressivity from research-action that Applied Linguistic contemporaneous proposes (MOITA LOPES, 2018c). This research is also important to the linguistic studies about Libras, since it brings an analyze related to linguistic questions, bilingual teaching, Deaf Studies, Deafhood (LANE, 1992; LADD, 2013), linking this to the teaching practices of Deaf Professors from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. As result, developed analyzes and categories from this research point successful teaching-learning of Libras relationship, mainly related to the discursive questions during class of Deaf professors from Letras Libras curse from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte central campus.