Direito(s) Linguístico(s) e a Língua Brasileira de Sinais: um olhar sobre as pesquisas no âmbito da Pós-Graduação brasileira

Abstract

Since the mid-twentieth century, linguistic rights have gained international visibility and have become the focus of many academic debates and research. The approach of fields such as legal sciences and language studies has pointed not only to the concept of ‘linguistic rights’ as a list of rights that must be guaranteed, but to the concept of ‘Linguistic Right’ as a field made of several elements, including the linguistic rights as one of its objects. Considering this, in this article, we seek to verify how the research carried out in Brazilian graduate programs approach these different concepts of linguistic right(s) regarding Libras (Brazilian Sign Language), one of the languages ​​that make up the Brazilian linguistic diversity, and that has been target of policies and norms that regulate language use and dissemination. To this end, we charted theses and dissertations developed in Brazilian graduate programs related to this topic, with a sum of seventeen papers published since 2017. These papers, distributed in nine thematic axes and based on different theoretical-methodological approaches, mention linguistic rights not as a field, but as rights that must be assured, for instance, to guarantee the effectiveness of other rights. Finally, we suggest that future research focus on the other constitutive elements of Linguistic Right as a field, to better guide the conception, implementation and fruition of policies generated by linguistic rights.