Translators-Interpreters of sign languages: functions and performance in educational networks

Abstract

This article discusses some functional conditions criterion of Sign Language Translators- Interpreters (TILS), that act in the process of deaf student education enrolled in brazilian schools at the regular education system. We undertake discussions on aspects such as functional linking and wages, trying to see how these subjects feel themselves in their places, and how they are affected by it in their daily lives. Grounded on the enunciation-discourse theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, this study utilized employed face-to-face interviews as a main base on data construction, and in addition, one profile with training data, bonding and professional experience. Also taking notes of contextual elements, were relevant to the subjects’ understanding and their speeches. Altogether 27 TILS participated from thirteen municipalities among eight Brazilian states. As results, it was outstanding that TILs are not just about nomenclatures and functional linking. Such developments, may affect the performance expectations and linked social representations. The data also demonstrate a diverse social movement to meet the existing education and inclusion public policies, depending on each specific situation, may compromise, greatly, how these TILS are seen and their integration-participation in the institutional as a whole.