Política linguística voltada para surdos no Brasil

reflexões sobre os domínios familiar e escolar

Abstract

This article intends to analyse how the Family and School domains are portrayed inside the language policies that aim at the social inclusion of the Deaf. Thereunto, through the study and discussion of the theoretical and documental frameworks chosen for this work, and from the following research questions: 1) What are language policies and how they are developed throughout the years?; 2) How the Family domain is contemplated within the language policies for the Deaf Community?; and 3) What is the discursive and practical character of language policies for bilingual Deaf education?, we intend to conceptualize policies as language management, aplying this conception to established measures that seek the sign language preservation and maintenance and the recognition of the Deaf person. Moreover, we try to bring up a closer look at two aspects that must be considered on these principles: the acknowledgment of the Family and Education as key-domains for success in (re)formulating and implementing these policies in Society, thinking about the application of the documental and theoretical framkework in the Brazilian context. As a result of this bibliographic analysis, we understand that language policies will only be effective if they are inseparable from the ackowledgment of the Deaf rights to language, identity and culture, the only factor that can raise more practical efforts to assure a dignified life to the Deaf people and a sense of belonging to the Brazilian Society, both in Family and School domains.