LIBRAS LINGUISTIC CHANGE IN RECIFE
Change; pounds; Recife.
Every language is made up of many varieties. Therefore, it is false to say that all deaf people use the same
pound sign. To affirm this unity is to deny the diversity of languages, when, in fact, no language is
uniform, homogeneous, for the deaf differ in their signs; This difference should not be considered a
mistake as sign language literally passes from hand to hand, acquires new accents, borrows and integrates
new signs, mixes with other languages in contact, acquires new clothes, proving that the
The phenomenon of variation is present in all living and developing languages. In that sense, this
dissertation proposes to verify, in the social practice of language use among deaf/deaf and
deaf/hearing, the marks of heterogeneity of the signs of the deaf in the city of Recife.