ABSTRACT
This article aims to discuss deafness as an experience that constitutes subjects of a linguistic minority within the limits of the national State. For this purpose, under the Foucaultian perspective of governmentality, it is explored a set of policies that regulate the linguistic behavior of deaf people in the educational field. From this, it is possible to assume that the social and political conditions available to this population operationalizethe maintenance of a linguistic and, consequently, also social vulnerability, which prevents thedignified rights of life in society.
Keywords
Deaf people; Governmentality; Linguistic minority; Vulnerability; Language policies