Análise do discurso publicitário de cursos de idiomas: verdades atinentes a sujeitos aprendizes e aprendizagem de língua inglesa

Abstract

This research has as main aim effect a theoretical-epistemological discussion about the constitution of the media materiality according to the French discourse analysis theory (DA), contemplating the functioning of the audiovisual in the discourses of language courses (English). The theoretical-methodological criteria are based in the DA theory proposed by Pêcheux ([1975] 1988, [1981] 2009, [1983] 2002) in articulation with the courtinean historical semiology (1985, 2006, 2008a, 2008b, 2011) and operated under the foulcaultian perspective (1988, [1969] 1995, [1971] 1996, [1979] 2007, [1981-1982] 2010b) of discursive practice, enunciate, knowledge, power, truth, subject, subjectivity. For doing so, the following investigation questions were proposed: What is the definition of substance for Linguistics and DA? How substances of sound, the body, substances of expression, and objects of the image contribute to the production of meanings of the discourses which compose the corpus of the research? How do the English courses, through the audiovisual discourse of advertising, mean the Brazilian learner of English and the learning of the English language? How do these truths are erected inside these materials when dealing with the issues listed before and in the relations of the Brazilian with the English language and with the speaker of the English language, which certainly contribute to the production of subjectivity of the English language learner? The hypothesis raised that the substances which integrate the materialities (of the corpus) apart from cooperating with the meaning process of the discourse, also indicate specific meanings inside these materialities was confirmed. The corpus of the research is made up of advertisements of four English courses broadcast on TV and Internet between 2010-2013, totalizing eleven audiovisual objects. In general, the theoretical discussions made and the analyses indicate the usefulness of articulating the historical semiology proposal with DA, this is due to the signs and symptoms which emanate from these significant materials. Concerning the analysis of sound substance, we verify its relevance as a constituent element of history, we highlight the vocal intensity as counterpart of meaning, the relation of timbre substance with the identity of the subject, as well as the role of tone in the production of meanings contrary to the verbal. We analyzed the substances of expression and how these contribute to the production of meanings of the discourse in several ways. Furthermore, the materialities showed how substances in the image scope and the objects regulate the power games and corroborate the production of truths inside the discursive practices. About the learner and learning, we point out that the Brazilian learner of English needs to have perfect pronunciation, and his fluency is intimately related to the fact of having a native teacher. The legitimated learner, in this respect, is put into an idealized place of knowledge. Apart from that, the advertisements demonstrate that English learning flows without any conflict, and the learning process is also erased to the detriment of the product. Their success (of the learner) is strictly entailed to the competence of the oral ability. Also, the Brazilian has to learn the foreign language and use it never the foreigner. This last one, on the contrary, occupies the place of powers (domination) and knowledge. To finish, ruled by post-modernity, the advertisements promote the disposable culture (especially concerning the learner s body); and the punishment factor along with ridiculousness permeates the discursive formation about learner/learning of English language in Brazil. These factors certainly corroborate the constitution of subjects