Os desafios da interpretação simultânea da língua brasileira de sinais para o português brasileiro na educação superior: o que diz a literatura científica?

Abstract

Since the professional consolidation of the sign language translator and interpreter, the educational field has offered the most scope for action. Educational interpreting is the most traditional subject of study within the field of Sign Language Translation and Interpreting Studies. The general objective of this master's research was to understand the challenges of interpreting from Libras into Brazilian Portuguese in the context of higher education, and the specific objectives were: to map the dissertations and theses produced by Brazilian researchers on educational interpreting in higher education, published between 2005 and 2022, to learn about the specificities of educational interpreting at higher education level and to identify the challenges of interpreting from Libras into Brazilian Portuguese in this context. To this end, a bibliographical survey was carried out to collect quantitative and qualitative data in order to achieve the research objectives. The research database consisted of ten dissertations and one thesis, selected according to the inclusion criterion (they are close to the scope of the research) and the exclusion criterion (they are not close to the scope of the research and, if published after 2016, they do not provide information about compliance with ethical procedures in research involving human beings). The data was collected using bibliographic research procedures and analyzed using the Thematic Data Analysis technique. The data obtained revealed that: the overarching theme of the research is the role of the educational interpreter in the context of higher education; the conception of the educational interpreter, who works in higher education, is typified in representations constructed by the educational interpreters themselves and/or by other educational agents; the qualifications expected of the educational interpreter who works in higher education are of an educational, ethical, cognitive/intellectual and psychosocial nature; there are some divergences between the perceptions of educational interpreters and deaf students regarding the role of these professionals in the institution of higher education; educational interpreting in higher education is complex and its challenges are essentially technical (linked to the complexity of intermodal simultaneous interpreting and the poor training of educational interpreters) and contextual (linked to the socio-educational difficulties of deaf students and the institutional situation); the topic of direct interpreting has a secondary place in the literature studied and has only been addressed by five authors, and the main challenges for interpreting Libras into Brazilian Portuguese in the context of higher education are of a training and technical nature relating to translating competence, specifically its methodological (sub)competence, i.e. the knowledge and skills that enable the educational interpreter to perform interpreting more efficiently.