Social Imaginaries of Communication Limits Between Deaf and Hearing People in the University Classroom

Abstract

this article inquires into the social imaginaries of the frontiers of communication between deaf people and hearing people in the university classroom. In their speeches, their perspectives, attempts or disagreements in relation to their social interrelation are revealed. Through them, the existence of stigmatization towards any person subjected to difference is evidenced due to social imaginaries: these are socially constructed perceptual schemes that call into question the sense of solidarity. In addition, the partial or total unawareness of the existence of other forms of communication results in the inaccurate idea of considering oral language as the only one that provides for global and daily communication, omitting writing, sign language, body language, drawing, and symbology, among others. This work’s methodology was guided by the qualitative model with a critical and social approach under Pintos’ model (2005), which allows the collection of social imaginaries and the search for strategies that contribute to recognizing communication diversity in its fullness.