A surdez que se faz ouvir: sujeito, língua e sentido

Abstract

The aim of this study is to understand discursively how sense effects about deafness become deaf subjects actions which affect their identification and constitution process as subjects by symbolic. The discursive corpus comprises oral transcript from four explicitation interviews with listener mothers about the theme of deafness, regarding their daily experience with deaf children. The discursive object is organized in four Discursive Thematic Blocks (DTB). Each block is constituted of discursive sequences of mother s discourse about deafness, the deaf subject, the son/the daughter, the maternal function and language. The analytical procedure is based on the principles of French Discourse Analysis accordingly Michel Pêcheux orientation. From the analyses, we could observe, in listener mothers discourse about the deafness, the ambivalence effect; however, it carries also crystallized senses with relation to deficiency . When we observed in maternal discourse an attempt to bring a new chain of senses, we noticed, at the same time, the reinforcement of previous chains: Clinical Discursive Formation and Listener Discursive Formation. Thus, mother s discourse about the deaf son promotes the strengthening of the Clinical Discursive Formation circulation which fortifies senses related to Listener Discursive Formation. We understand that Listener Discursive Formation mobilizes the transparency effect concerning already-there senses, characterizing the return of the same, while the ambivalence effect installs polysemy, the different, promoting an intercrossing between discourse and language, so that both senses circulate in maternal imaginary, not one or other . Such discursive working shows the coexistence of opposite and simultaneous senses in mother s way of signifying which affect the family choices relating to inscribe the son/the daughter in a socially accepted order by symbolic. Among these choices is the orality.