Eventos de letramentos e atividades de leitura em Língua Portuguesa por pessoas surdas em uma igreja evangélica em Feira de Santana

Abstract

Recognizing that reading activity is essential for people's reflective formation and literacy practices differ according to social contexts, this master's research aims to discuss how deaf people attribute meaning to texts in the religious environment, specifically in an evangelical church. Its general objective is to understand how participation in religious literacy events provides opportunities for reading training in Portuguese for deaf people, members of the Ministério de Acessibilidade em Libras e em Língua Portuguesa (MALP). The research is theoretically based on studies on literacy, reading and sociocultural deafness. Methodologically, this is qualitative ethnographic research, due to the researcher's environment in the research locus. Furthermore, ethnography is justified in research because it proposes active and consensual involvement between the researcher and the participants. As research devices, participant observation, semi-structured interviews and notes in the field diary were chosen. The locus of the research is an evangelical institution, Primeira Igreja Batista, located in Feira de Santana, Bahia, specifically, the MALP Ministry, considered in this study as a micro-agency of literacy. As a result, the role that reading text in Portuguese plays in the deaf person's linguistic and textual formation was identified, mainly concerning the knowledge of the functionalities, structure and socio-communicative role of the textual genres that are part of the religious context studied. Furthermore, it was observed that the research participants construct (and constructed), at all times, reading tactics for attributing meaning to texts in Portuguese, through movements of anticipation (when activating previous knowledge about religion and the texts that are part of this agency), deciphering (when relating knowledge about the language/language in Libras to the universe of Portuguese) and interpretation (when attributing meaning to texts in LP based on the movements of interaction between Deaf people and interpreters during literacy events at MALP).