THE COLOR OF THE SIGN: CIRCULATION OF RACIST DISCOURSES IN BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

ABSTRACT

This work aims to investigate the discourses materialized in signs in Brazilian Sign Language used to designate white people and black people. We inscribed this research in Dialogical Discourse Analysis studies. As a methodological approach, we searched for the aforementioned signs on four virtual platforms: Google, Youtube, Signbank and National Institute of Education for the Deaf (Ines) Libras Dictionary. As results, it was possible to identify that, in the signs of white people, values circulate that place them as a dominant and socially valued ethnic group, while the signs to designate black people integrate the oppressive logic of racism, constructing them as a subordinate social group.

Keywords
Dialogical Discourse Analysis; Speech; Brazilian Sign Language; Meanings; Racism