Espanhol, francês, inglês ou português? Discursivizando a tensão enunciativa na escolha do curso de letras

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the statements and raised voices in the discursive processes when students of the Language and Literature Course of a public university in Minas Gerais (Brazil) build representations about the choice of the graduation in the Course, in order to understand how this choice reflects on the development of the subject as pre-service teacher and on their relationship with the language. To account for this proposal, I enunciated from Applied Linguistics (AL), from French Discourse Analysis (FDA) and from the studies developed by the Bakhtin Circle. By establishing dialogue between these fields, we are concerned with language in its living and social aspects. In this sense, the relationship established between AL, FDA and the studies of the Bakhtin Circle understands that the language in operation produces senses, and it is through language that the subjects surface tensions in the choice of Language and Literature Course at the time of enunciation. The AREDA Proposal– Resonances Discourse Analysis in Open Testimonials (SERRANI, 1998) was used as a methodological theoretical support for data collection. In my analysis, the speeches of five students from the Language and Literature Course, from selected discursive sequences, allowed the establishment of discursive axioms and the mobilization of some notions such as discursive resonance and discursive memory. It is considered that the choice for one of the graduations (Spanish, French, English or Portuguese) in the first year of the Language and Literature Course is a moment of tension, in which the subjects as teachers in initial development are in conflict when taking a decision that will define the following years of his/her graduation and his/her performance as a teacher. Some discursive enrollment of these students in pre-service training were outlined, such as: i) the tension in the choice of Language and Literature Course, in which students surface the enrollment in a disrepute Course that challenges their professional choice; ii) the relationship with the mother tongue before and in the Language and Literature Course, in which subjects enunciate and report the unsatisfactory learning of mother tongue education in primary school, from the illusion of Portuguese completeness domain in Language and Literature Course; iii) the relationship with foreign languages before and in the Language and Literature Course, in which the students of the Course enunciate on the ease in learning the foreign language because of the previous meeting with foreign languages before the Language and Literature Course; we also established, from the enunciative regularities, tensions that constitute the students of Language and Literature Course and are settled to enunciate about iv) the role of the basic cycle in the training of pre-service teachers, in which the subject when speaking about the basic cycle evidences the relationship with the language and erases the teacher training. Finally, when enunciating on v) the choice of the graduation on the Language and Literature Course, the subjects, from their utterances, which are established at the time of the graduation choice (Spanish, French, English and Portuguese), enroll in speeches that guide their choices of pragmatic necessity and the historical precedence of the subject, who comes to the Course with his/her decision in one of the languages offered already taken.