Banca de DEFESA: ALIZANDRA DE ASSIS CÂNDIDO LOPES

ORDINARY SESSIONS OF THE MUNICIPAL LEGISLATIVE AS LITERACY EVENTS

Letting Events. Ordinary Session. Legislative Domain.

It 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), in the foundations that theme language and work (SOUZA-E-SILVA, 2002; DUARTE; FEITOSA, 1998) and in the perspective of labor literacy (PAZ, 2008). We also 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; CHIZZOTTI, 2005; ANDRÉ, 1995). It was held with the collaboration of city councilmen who constitute the seventeenth legislature of a  interior's city of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The Corpus of the research was generated through the observation of literacy events carried out during the legislative sessions of said City Hall, in addition to semi-structured interviews. The discussion of the data indicates that the literacy events investigated play a fundamental role in the lives of citizens, considering the power that play of reading and writing practices with respect to decision-making that will drive the investments made by the executive branch to implement the public policies to improve the lives of the population. The relevance of this study is found in the contributions that it will can to provide to the language studies, especially to Literacy Studies focused in the work activities.