Rearticulação do imperialismo linguístico sobre a diversidade linguística indígena

Abstract

With Decreto 5.626/05, Libras became another language, besides Portuguese, an official language in Brazil, and English, a foreign and internationally hegemonic language, determinant of the sociolinguistic organization of the school curriculum in Brazil. Despite being the language of a minority in the national scenario, Libras is valued under the metalanguage of Portuguese in the panorama of indigenous school education and is politically strengthened in an open space for the valorization of knowledge production by indigenous peoples in their languages. The official linguistic imperialism of the country, even with the constitutional and educational (LDB) gains of 1988 and 1996, respectively, for the sociolinguistic determination of Brazilian indigenous communities, reduces the geopolitical position of these same communities with the inclusion of the obligation to teach a non-indigenous language in school education. In this paper, we aim to discuss the marked tension in the context of linguistic diversity in which Portuguese, English and Libras are officially more valued languages than indigenous languages, and to problematize the epistemic and linguistic colonization that is legally used, of a signed language, nationally, at the same time, hegemonic and minorized, to rearticulate the national linguistic imperialism, in the educational formation of subalternized groups.