Deafness like a communicative difference

Thinking from a theoretical perspective, this paper discusses the deafness as communicative difference, starting from the notion of culture articulated by Cultural Studies and Foucault’s conception of discourse as social practice. The study shows that the difference between deaf and non-deaf is in language, communication plan and the means of exchanging dialogue, marked by oral-auditive and visual-space communicative channels, contrasting majority deafness representations that appoint arguments based on nature, biological and linguistic terms. Such representations have the effect of the search for the erasure and correction the other, regarded as deviant and abnormal.