A natureza dos sentidos nos enfoques conceituais de graduandos em fase de pesquisa

Abstract

This work aims at reflecting on Institutional University Discourse. The goals which support such study are: i) describe sense nature in conceptual focuses from undergraduate students’ discourse when they are starting scientific research process; ii) make a diagnosis of methodological aspects concemed to theoretical thought production and formation in the university context and iii) explain sense behaviour in conceptual focuses which indicate reference processes in undergraduate students, conceming their relation with knowledge. A theoretical framework in French Discourse Analysis was constructed to support such research emphasizing studies from Pêcheux (1975) and Foucault (2002). Besides, studies like Bakhtin (1988), Orlandi (2002) and Santos (2000) were also included in our theoretical references. Our research can be featured as being a qualitative one in its interpretative, analytical and descriptive modality. Other methodological procedures are used as utterance analysis from Letter Undergraduate Students. The corpus, manifestations of Institutional University Discourse, will be investigated from a discursive place in which subjects support their view on institution, analysing discursive formations that are subscribed in the following positions: i) subject and institution; ii) subject and knowledge and iii) knowledge and institution. The results reveal a non-engagement from students in the methodological and didactic processes which support academic formation, reinforcing an informative character instead of an investigative one.