Deaf people and bilingual education in times of pandemic: the enunciation of teachers in analysis

Abstract

In this study, we propose an analysis of the linguistic policy context for the deaf and the place of the professor, reflecting on the institutional linguistic actions and the daily practices of translation and interpretation for Libras in Brazil in pandemic times. Based on the dialogical perspective of Bakhtin's discourse and the circle (2010, 2016), we used research qualitative. This research has the virtual ethnographic character proposed in Hine's perspectives (2009, 2015). For this, we selected textual and visual documents in order to describe, analyze and compare them. We found that, despite the policy in Brazil guaranteeing access to information in Libras and remote teaching, it actually happens through translation from the deaf and interpreter communities. This fact opens wide the social inequalities, mainly the linguistic ones, considering that the prevention to Covid-19. From these findings, we conclude that the inequalities are minimized by the action of professor and translators and interpreters of Portuguese-Brasilian Sign Language, hearing and deaf people, who together develop a bottom-up linguistic policy.