A cor do sinal: circulação de discursos racistas em Libras

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the discourses circulating in signs in Libras used to designate white people and black people. Furthermore, we place this research in the field of Applied Linguistics and Dialogic Discourse Analysis studies to understand how ideological signs act in social capillarization, producing meanings that guide life in society. As a methodological approach, a search for signs mentioned on four virtual platforms: Google, Youtube, Signbank and Dictionary of Libras from the National Institute of Education for the Deaf. As a result, it was possible to identify that in the signs of white people circulate values ​​that place them as an ethnic group dominant and socially valued, while signs to designate black people also integrate the oppressive logic of racism, by thematizing values ​​that build the image of black people as a subordinate group, associating them with phenotypic markers racists.