Em busca de semelhanças e diferenças entre escritas de uma mesma área: percepções na Letras

Abstract

Starting from the model of Academic Literacies (Lea and Street, 2014), which is correlated to the social relations of authority, ideology, identity and power belonging to every academic context and their respective scientific communities, studies question not only the knowledge and contact with these relations, but also the experience and living of each of them in the academic environment. In view of this, Fuza (2017) highlights the heterogeneity present in academic writing, based on the specific social relations of each research area and scientific community use intergeneric relations (Corrêa, 2006). From these perspectives, the research is located in the field of Applied Linguistics, based on the New Literacies Studies (Street, 2003) and based on the Academic Literacies model (Lea and Street, 2014). In the case of this research, the focus will be on the course of Literature and its respective research areas: Applied Linguistics, Linguistics and Literature. In order to understand social relations in academic writing, we looked at the differences and similarities between 3 selected articles from different scientific communities, analyzing what is specific to each field; understanding the meanings between the specificities of each field of research in academic writing and identifying how social relations of authority and power appear in academic articles. To this end, the methodology used was qualitative documentary analysis. This analysis was carried out using two cates category 1: “similarities between the articles selected, from different scientific communities in Letters” and category 2: “differences between the articles from scientific communities in Letters”. The analysis showed how the social relations of authority and power are common to the three articles, but are consolidated in different ways in academic writing due to the scientific communities in which each text is inserted, as well as the thematic choice of each article. For example, the presence of voices of authority is common to all three term papers, but each of them highlights a certain number of voices of reference as a theoretical basis throughout the text, according to the subject matter and research methodology. In addition, while the summary is a common aspect of all three texts, it is constructed differently in each of them. In addition, one of the academic articles has a dedication, which is common to term papers, but not to articles. At the end of the study, we understood how authority and power relations influence academic writing in different fields and, at the same time, differentiate one article from another or make them similar.