THE STUDENT AND XEQUE-MATE PROGRAM: identity constructions
Language. Identity. Xeque-Mate TV Program.
This study aims at analysing identities of Xeque-Mate TV Program that are built upon discourses of students from the Department of Social Communication of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. This program is produced by a partnership between the university television (TV Universitária) and the Department of Communications and it yields professional practice for the students, once many activities are developed in an open TV channel studio. This research is situated within the field of Applied Linguistics (AL) and taking into account the fact that AL is an interdisciplinary area, we aim at building bridges between linguistic studies (CÍRCULO DE BAKHTIN, 1992, 1998, 2011) and the studies of Social Communication (MEDINA, 2001). We base our concept of discourse, language and subject in Bakhtin (1998, 2011), Bakhtin/Volochinov (1992) and Hall (2015). Analysis is based on an online questionnaire addressed to 23 undergraduate and graduate students from the Communications course of both Journalism and Radio majors who have participated in the TV program. Also, different chronotopes are considered, space and time which are of great importance to the constitution of the subjects of this study. Their voices lead to different identities, ranging from the program as a space of experiences to the program as an opportunity of linking practice and theory. These identities are built and rebuilt and are immersed into a set of established social practices, spheres and fields.