Surdocegueira na perspectiva da Análise de Discurso: a mudança na materialidade linguística da Libras visual-espacial para a Libras tátil

Abstract

Deafblindness is a disability characterized by the concomitant loss of vision and hearing.There are cases where some subjects are born deaf, and during their youth or adulthood develop retinitis pigmentosa, caused by a genetic condition called Usher syndrome, making them deafblind. The present study seeks to understand how deaf subjects who use Libras as their first language are affected by the change from their signifying materiality; to tactile Libras after acquiring deafblindness. The research built reflections based on concepts from materialist Discourse Analysis, where subjects are challenged by ideology and produce discourses within the discursive formations through which they identify themselves in a relationship between language-history-unconscious. The study corpus derives from semi-structured interviews with four women with acquired deafblindness, and later extended to their deaf companions, their main communication partners. After the transcription and cutting stages, 33 discursive sequences, highlighting the meanings produced by the lack of access to the diverse signifying materialities that create the enunciative scenes in which these deafblind subjects participate, their identification processes after loss of vision, the relationship between their bodies and language, the history and the capitalist logic that we live in and the relationship with others based on the experience as a deafblind subject. This work draws attention to the need for more research regarding the topic, considering the expansion of awareness about the specificities of deafblind subjects; the conditions for participation in social spaces; the inclusion and visibility of these subjects