| Summary: | The present article aims to analyze teaching manuals produced by
teachers of the National Institute of the Deaf (INES) in Brazil during the period
called Estado Novo. At that time, a nationalistic linguistic policy strongly
affected speakers of other languages (mainly immigrants). We have based our
analyses, above all, on the theoretical proposal of the History of Linguistic Ideas,
focusing on the production of manuals (Puech, 1998) of oral language teaching
for deaf students. The period is large-scale marked by the nationalism to be
built around the national language, namely Portuguese, and by the elaborated
and educated Brazilian voice cult. The nationalist proposal would not be
outside the school for the deaf. Its methodology would be embodied in the
oral view. However, we can observe that the presence of a methodology based
on the use of signals was not denied by the book authors; being considered,
however, adequate for those deaf considered “deprived intelligence” or out
of conditions for learning oral language. Thus, a deaf Brazilian identity was
created (Witchs, 2014): a deaf person who spoke the national language and
was able to sustain herself/himself with the strength of her/his own work.
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