“Esse descaso vai continuar?” As lutas por reconhecimento de um povo : uma análise sociológica e comunicacional do discurso do povo surdo durante a pandemia

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Alzenira Aquino de
• Orientador(a): Pedrosa, Cleide Emília Faye
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Palavras-chave em Português: Análise crítica do discurso; Educação de surdos; Reconhecimento (Direito); Pandemia de COVID-19; Linguagem brasileira de sinais (LIBRAS); Abordagem sociológica e comunicacional do discurso; Acessibilidade comunicacional; Luta por reconhecimento; Povo surdo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Sociological and communicational discourse approach; Communication accessibility; Struggle for recognition; Pandemic; Deaf people
• Palavras-chave em Espanhol: Enfoque sociológico y comunicacional del discurso; Accesibilidad a la comunicación; Lucha por el reconocimiento; Personas sordas
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/18350

In the 21st century`s second decade Deaf People still live on the margins of society and therefore fight for recognition and rights. Their first language, the Brazilian Sign Language - LIBRAS, is not included in the school curriculum, communicational accessibility is guaranteed by law, but ineffective in practice. Such conditions reverberate in access barriers to the labor market, health services, arts, research, information, effective participation in Brazilian society, meaning the very lack of citizenship exercise, configuring itself a social problem. Up front pandemic context, as of March/2020, this situation got worse. While hearing people were bombarded with information about the new coronavirus, we observed that this content and its respective updates did not reach Deaf people, in most part they were not broadcast in Libras. The Deaf were left without access to information. In this context, this study seeks to address the researcher's concerns regarding the Deaf People’s communicational accessibility during the pandemic. The general objective is to critically analyze the discourses of Deaf Social Actors in relation to the challenges of communicational accessibility faced during the pandemic getting guided by Sociological and Communicational Approach to Discourse ASCD. This analysis is based on videos performed by those very Deaf Social Actors on the YouTube platform with evidence in claims for rights: linguistic, cultural, recognition and respect for the Deaf People. The videos in Libras were translated and presented in the written modality of the Portuguese language. For this, we are guided by the assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), by assuming the opposite position to actions that cause social inequalities and exclusion (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001; VAN DICK, 2008; PEDROSA, 2013; MAGALHÃES 2017; CUNHA, 2021; IRINEU, 2021). We seek to add distinct theoretical contributions, as transdisciplinarity in CDA comes from its own origin, its conception of discourse, its critical character, its dialectical vision, and also its methodological possibilities (BATISTA JR; SATO; MELO, 2018). With this foundation, research in CDA is guided by its own object, which is the case of this work. The methodological paths followed the trails of a qualitative-interpretative research, without, however, neglecting quantitative aspects of representativeness in its results. Anchored in ASCD (PEDROSA, 2014, 2016), we added Deaf Studies (SKLIAR and PERLIN, 1998, 2001; PESAVENTO, 2005; LOPES, 2007; STROBEL, 2006, 2008, 2009; SILVA, 2014; HALL; WOODWARD, 2014; FRANCO, 2014; ERNSEN, 2016; PEDROSA et al., 2021) and the Fight for Recognition (HONNETH, 2003), combined with studies of the Appraisal System, Systemic-Functional Grammar (HALLIDAY, 2004; MARTIN and WHITE 2004) and the theory of Social Actors (VAN LEEUWEN, 2008; DUBAR, 1997). To develop this thesis, we watched 122 videos in Libras, posted on the YouTube channel and 09 HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) were selected, starring Deaf Social Actors. We carried out the procedures of translation into Portuguese in the written modality for presentation in this work. After methodological decisions, based on the criteria of relevance, homogeneity and synchronicity (BAUER and GASKELL 2008; BAUER and ARTS, 2008), we constituted the corpus with twenty-four fragments that contemplate the challenges of communicational accessibility of the Deaf during the pandemic. It was verified by the discourse that, in order to face the challenges of communicational accessibility of the Deaf Social Actors during the covid-19 pandemic, the forms of recognition activated in sixty-nine percent of the corpus are linked to disrespect, deprivation of rights and exclusion in the sphere of legal relationships. On a much smaller scale, corresponding to thirty percent, social esteem and self-esteem as a practical self-relation within the Community of Values, sphere of Solidarity. Finally, as researchers based on the ACD/ASCD, as a theoretical assumption, we contribute, through this thesis, with the recording of situations experienced by the Deaf during the pandemic, denouncing their underprivileged situation with regard to access to communication.