The fable discursive genre in Libras: a enunciative analysis of texts in the virtual sphere

Brazillian deaf education is being organized amidst political conflicts, due to different official documents contradicting each other and building distinct meanings to the concept of bilingual education. In this context, this reasearch proposes itself to, based on Bakhtin\'s enunciation theory, discuss this educational model and, starting from what is proposed by the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacional (National Curricular Parameters) for the teaching of portuguese, reflect upon the possibilities of building educational processes for deaf people in Libras, using discursive genre as a base. Thus, it sought to comprehend how the fable genre was being enunciated by deaf people in Libras, from texts published in the virtual sphere, in special, on the YouTube platform; 11 videos were selected to be analyzed. It was observed that the texts were identified as translations that already existed in Portuguese, even though the authors did not identified themselves as translators. Furthermore, the analysis has shown that the videos were made with different purposes, fact that interfered, in a significant fashion, on the enunciative choices of the subjects and in the interdiscursive dynamics of the text. The fables in Libras show thematic similarities with the ones that exist in other languages, however revealed differences in its compositional forms and stylistic choices. In more recent texts, it was also observed the usage of fables for political reflections that involve the deaf communities. In this sense, it is understood that this study may contribute to the construction of an education for deaf people that values and considers the discursive aspects of Libras, for a reflection on the different uses of the language starting from the discursive genres, and for the students to know the many meanings that pervade the struggles of the deaf community, if those are put in relation to the conflicts that exist in the fables. (AU)