Banca de DEFESA: MARIA APARECIDA DA COSTA

IBGE'S RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE: PRODUCTION, USES AND IMPLICATIONS

Socio-Catalytic Genre. Survey Questionnaires. System Of Genres And Activities. PNADC/IBGE.

At this thesis, we discussed the genre survey questionnaire and the social implications from its use in the scope of activities of work developed by government employees of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Foundation (IBGE). We concentrated the analysis on the questionnaire of the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNADC), produced by IBGE to the 2011 and 2017 editions, on account of being a relevant probabilistic inquiry, which makes use of the oral narratives provided by Brazilian population to compose its database. Following the orientations of the critical ethno-research with a qualitative approach of data, the corpus was constituted through the followed tools: documentary research, aimed at collected textual genres of the investigated area; realization of semi-structured interviews with the Technicians; and remote application to the Research Agents. For the theoretical-conceptual comprehension of textual genres, we use postulates of the Bakhtin (2011 [1992]) and authors affiliated to Socio-rhetoric, notably Bazerman (2005; 2015a; 2015b) and Miller (2012 [1984]). About the studies interested in the written production of survey questionnaires, supported by the discussions of Vieira (2009), Dörnyei (2003), Gil (2008), among others. The analyzes highlighted that the questionnaires of the PNADC: (i) although operate under the enunciative responsibility of writers of the statistical field, they are texts produced collaboratively, due to their broad thematic framework, demanding technical and specialized knowledge that points to their own ontology; (ii) assume characteristics of a socio-catalytic genre and move into other discursive domains by the action of Technicians and Research agents that actuates in the persuasion of the informer public and the retextualization of the institutional concepts; and (iii) trigger the production and subsequent circulation of countless other texts that gravitate around the questionnaires enabling, in the context of the investigation, a system of genres marked by standardized forms of professional organization involving activities and people.