Discurso e identidade regional: práticas de letramento sobre os rios, a chuva e os ritmos do Pará no 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

This dissertation, developed in the area of Language and Literacy, has the purpose to study the discourses of subjects students from the ninth grade of the elementary school in a public state institution of Belém do Pára. The main goal consists of analyze and understand how is represented and built the Paraense cultural identity that emerges in the discourse of these subjects is represented and constructed, from interactions promoted by literacy that deal with the themes; rivers, the Rain, and Paraenses musical rhythms. As specific objectives, the research intends to promote from a discourse-enunciative approach, the effective participation of students in language practices carried out, legitimizing their knowledge, experiences and identities; identify how students perceive themselves concerning Paraense identity; identify what knowledge of culture and Paraense Amazon are triggered in the discourse of the student and are more recurrent in their real situations of interaction. For this, the research is supported by the theoretical-methodological apparatus of the Discourse Dialogical Analysis of the Circle of Bakhtin, from the perspective of action-research, within a qualitative and interpretive approach, through the technique of participant-observation. The theoretical and methodological framework is mainly based on the Bakhtinian dialogical conception of language, Bakhtin (1998; 2003; 2006; 2008), Fiorin (2018), Brait (1994; 2010); in literacy studies Rojo (2009), Soares (2204), Kleiman (2008); in studies on identity and cultures Hall (2015; 2000), Canclini (2008), Bauman (2005), Woodward (2000); in studies on Amazonian culture (Loureiro (2001), Monteiro (2005), and others. The intervention proposal was implemented in the classroom through two activities, that served to promote an approach on Paraense identity; and had its point of mediation in three thematic workshops entitled: “No ritmo do Pará”; “Chove, Chuva” e “Esse rio é minha rua”. Based on a social-historical perspective, the analyzed data permitted to list singularities and pluralities related to the identity of the subjects and their relationship with the local culture. The results showed that in some cases, the subjects do not identify with certain aspects of culture, and this feeling of belonging or distance is revealed in different statements, verifying relations of greater or lesser resistance and/or adherence to certain current colonizing orders.