2023-04-222023-04-222021-08LIMA, Hildomar José de; SILVA, Marcos Marcelino da; REZENDE, Tânia Ferreira. O encarceramento da existência da pessoa surda na/pela linguagem. Revista Diálogos, Cuiabá, v. 9, n. 2, mai./ago. 2021. Disponível em: https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/revdia/article/view/11673. Acesso em: 19 abr. 2023.e- 2319-0825http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/22393This discussion, motivated by a preliminary look at the sociolinguistic reality of deaf people deprived of freedom, has a sociolinguistic character because it is based on the deaf person and theirlanguage, and addresses how oral language determines the deaf person an imprisoned existence through the clinical-pathological and cultural conceptions of being "deaf people". And, still, the data fromthe Levantamento Nacional de Informações Penitenciárias –Infopenindicate that there may be a significant underreporting of deaf people in the Brazilian prison system and have opened up the linguistic negligence by the State in relation to people deaf.porAcesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Colonialidade linguísticaExistência encarceradaNegligência linguísticaLinguistic colonialityExistence imprisonedLinguistic negligenceArtigo