Processos de referenciação em textos escritos por surdos

Abstract

Reference studies have advanced in several aspects, describing the referential processes in textual genres that circulate socially, in ordinary and essential situations in our daily lives. Despite so much research, the construction of references in texts of deaf students is still a subject little addressed in this area. The deaf writing difficulty is a worrying factor, especially in social practices such as ENEM's essays. This paper aims to investigate how the deaf (re)construct the referents in dissertative texts, written in Portuguese. For this, we based on concepts under the Textual Linguistic perspective, according to authors such as Koch (2004), Marcuschi (2008) and Bentes (2012). As for the Referencing Phenomena, we support ourselves on Mondada and Dubois (1995), Apothéloz and Reichler-Béguelin (1995), Cavalcante (2011, 2012, 2016), Custódio Filho and Silva (2013) and Custódio Filho and Brito (2014). We also approach the deaf writing based on Souza (1998), Karnopp (2002), Fernandes (2003), Fernandes (2006), Quadros (2006), Sacks (2010) and Leal (2013). The methodology used to develop the research was bibliographic, descriptive and qualitative. The research corpus consists of 13 texts obtained in a workshop designed specifically for this purpose. The results showed that all texts have referential processes since the introduction, as well as the expressions used to resume, organize and continue the discursive topic, called referent, which was triggered by expressions belonging to the significant field or by expressions of the texts. of support.