Deaf community: a humor experience

Abstract

The motivation of the experience of being deaf and the crossing of the community experiences
and the knowledge of the academic world take place in this essay as a way to bring to the reader
a vision of what is this difference of being deaf in a hearing society and of how our community
is constituted through a very strong bond - our sign language, which crosses borders and finds
in humor literature one of the aspects that favors the constitution of the linguistic and cultural
identity of the deaf. I try to discuss the concepts of community through the theoretical lens of
Bauman and Miranda. About humor through the theoretical lenses of Bergson, Lévy, Justo and
Garbin, adding to this text the deaf cultural discourses with the theoretical support of Lopes and
Veiga-Neto, Skliar and Possenti, among others. Nowadays, technologies favor the recording of
deaf productions by building tools for cultural development in our native language, providing
for current and future deaf generations linguistic, identity, cultural and community
development, fundamental factors for a citizen's life.