Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ALIZANDRA DE ASSIS CÂNDIDO LOPES

ORDINARY SESSIONS OF THE MUNICIPAL LEGISLATIVE AS LITERACY EVENTS

Letting Events. Ordinary Session. Legislative Domain.

Starting from the conception of literacy as a social practice, reading and writing being inserted into social and linguistic practices that make real use of the language within specific contexts and in varied domains, it is intended in this research to describe the events and practices of literacy during the Ordinary Sessions of the municipal legislature. With regard to theoretical assumptions, we have adopted the foundations of literacy studies seen as a social practice and supported by (BARTON, HAMILTON, 1993, 1998, 2000, KLEIMAN, 1995, 2008, STREET, 1984, OLIVEIRA, 2008, 2010; , 2009), but also based on the foundations that theme language and work (SOUZA-E-SILVA, 2002; DUARTE; FEITOSA, 1998) and from the perspective of labor literacy (PAZ, 2008). Still taking some considerations about the concept of beliefs (BARCELOS, 2006). The present study is also part of the research field of Applied Linguistics (LA), taking as theoretical contributions (MOITA-LOPES, PENNYCOOK, SIGNORINI, 2006; CELANI, 2000), highlighting the problematizing character of LA, to investigate beyond the field of language teaching. The research adopts the methodological assumptions of qualitative research of ethnographic inspiration, (BOGDAN; BIKLEN, 1994; CANZADO, 1994; CHEZZOTTI, 2005; ANDRÉ, 1995), carried out with the collaboration of city councilmen who constitute the seventeenth municipality of the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The results of the research, in progress, show that the events and practices of literacy implemented by said collaborators, present well defined characteristics in terms of participants, domain, artifacts and activities. The relevance of this work lies in the contributions that it can provide to language studies, especially to the studies of Literature seen as social practice and to the field of Applied Linguistics research as a science that cares about language in different particularities and dialogues with other fields of study within the human sciences, and also to give visibility to the practices of reading and writing in work environments.