Letramento Acadêmico: Uma Perspectiva Bakhtiniana Para Análise De Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso

Abstract

In this study, we analyzed in which ways academic literacy is present in the Liberal Arts capstone papers, a requirement of Letras – Português e Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa (Liberal Arts – Portuguese Language and Portuguese Language Literatures) program at Universidade Federal do Pampa, campus Bagé. We follow an enunciative perspective of language, we refer to Bakhtin (1988), Soares (2006), and Rodrigues (2005) who present categories of analysis that are applicable to the object we study, namely, verbal and social dimension of the genre. The methodology of the study comprises of a qualitative analysis organized around sections of the analyzed papers. Basically, we investigate the introduction and the analysis and discussion of results sections. Among the main findings, in regard to the verbal dimension, we highlight sometimes the continuity and sometimes the discontinuity of specific issues such as the demarcation of other people’s discourses, issues focused on the coherence between the parties and also on the adequacy to the genre. With regard to the social dimension, we point out the issue of authorship. In this part,on one hand, we found sometimes the uniformity, which does not mean the exclusivity of a person of speech, but the regular and constant presentation of these; on the other hand, the lack of definition, which, in this study, points to the difficulties of academic literacy that were not overcome during the writing process. The analyzed capstone papers highlight issues related to literacy whose solution may go beyond the proposition of specific courses to study of the genre, since the curricular path performed by the student-authors was similar, nonetheless we have quite different results. The issues persist and certainly should be a theme for future works.