REFERENCING IN TEXTS WRITTEN BY BILINGUAL DEAF LIBRAS-PORTUGUESE
Interlanguage, LIBRAS, Referencing, Referential Networks.
The aim of this research is to analyze the writing of bilingual deaf people in the LIBRASPortuguese interlanguage, through a social cognitive discursive perspective of Text Linguistics. The notion of Referential Networks was used in the analysis, which is presented as an evolution of referencing studies, through which is observed referents being activated and progress in a text both through linguistic relations and through extralinguistic relations. The theoretical basis that guides this research was found in the works of Cavalcante (2021), Custódio Filho (2011) and Matos (2018), in terms of the elaboration of the concept of referencing and of the social cognitive processes that act on the construction of referents, culminating in Referential Networks. For the construction of notions of the LIBRAS-Portuguese interlanguage and its characteristics, support was sought in the works of Brochado (2003) and Muniz (2008). The corpus of this research is consisted of seven texts written by deaf bilingual adults, in which it was analyzed the most common referencing strategies in these interlanguages, delimiting the social cognitive stages of construction and progression of referents and also considering the importance of referential, central, and anaphoric networks, for the construction of meaning.