Banca de DEFESA: MADSON BRUNO SOARES ESTEVAM

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MADSON BRUNO SOARES ESTEVAM
DATE: 27/12/2019
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Auditório D
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(NON) COMMITMENT IN TOP-SCORING ESSAYS FROM EXAME NACIONAL DO ENSINO MÉDIO — ENEM

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  Point of view. Commitment. Top-scoring essay. ENEM.

PAGES: 150
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

Commitment in discourse is a phenomenon that refers to the voices within the text, affirming its polyphonic nature and allowing the analyst to understand which enunciative instance assumes or not the propositional content in any utterances uttered by speakers/enunciators, specially in the realm of linguistics. Following this notion, the current research had the purpose of investigating commitment in top-scoring essays from the Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM) from 2013 to 2017. More specifically, it aimed at: (1) describing the text plan of these essays; (2) analyzing the attribution of point of view and commitment in their top-scoring essays; (3) identifying and describing linguistic marks indicating the point of view of the candidates; (4) verifying how other voices came to be handled in such essays, as well as categorizing them according to the socio-discursive formations to which they belong. This research was grounded on Textual Discourse Analysis, a theoretical framework developed by Adam (2011, 2017, 2018), in which text and discourse are considered under a new perspective. Moreover, it was also based on theoretical accounts regarding enunciation in discourse, such as from Rabatel (2016, 2017, 2018), Rodrigues et al (2010), Passeggi et al (2010), Costa (2015), Guentchéva (1994), and others. Throughout this dissertation, we adopt a quali-quantitative methodology, following the inductive method with the purpose of raising generalizations from the obtained data. The treatment of the data was, thus, consistent with the identification of the phenomenon, followed by its description, analysis and interpretation.  Results show that the first speakers/enunciators (L1/E1) use voices to support their standpoints on the themes being discussed on the essay, representing argumentative resources recognized as arguments of authority. In that sense, they tend to assume a degree of commitment towards the different discourses in the utterance, using philosophical, sociological and legal socio-discursive formations in order to emphasize and show a certain degree of encyclopedical knowledge. Moreover, we observed that the text plan pertaining to such essays has been through a number of transformations in more recent years. Their prototypical structures, for instance, have been marked by the absence of a title, and by the recurring presence of a paragraph presenting the introduction, two paragraphs presenting the development and one paragraph presenting the conclusion. The results of this study may, ultimately, contribute to the understanding of ENEM essays as a textual-discursive genre in its structural and enunciative elements, indicating which are the mechanisms employed by its participants in the construction of the benchmarking texts selected in the making of the most important tertiary education admissional exam in Brazil.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 349685 - MARIA DAS GRACAS SOARES RODRIGUES
Externa ao Programa - 3351562 - CELIA MARIA DE MEDEIROS
Externa à Instituição - Elis Betânia Guedes da Costa
Externa à Instituição - ROSANGELA ALVES DOS SANTOS BERNARDINO - UERN