PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHING: RESIGNIFYING THE PRACTICE OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS THROUGH BAKHTINIAN STUDIES

Abstract

This paper aims to ground the Practice of Linguistic Analysis (PLA) (GERALDI, 1984; 1997[1991]) in Bakhtin’s Circle’s studies, considering that this practice needs a larger theoretical and methodological basis and that the dialogic studies can give an interactive approach to the analysis of texts, focused on the stylistic-discursive strategies in Portuguese Language classes. Thus, our guide questions are: How to resignify the methodological approach for the dialogic PLA? How can the sociological method, proposed by Volóchinov (2017 [1929]) constitute this PLA? Our reflections were based mainly on Bakhtin’s Circle’s studies, such as Volóchinov and Bakhtin (1926), Bakhtin (2010[1929]; 2013; 2016 [1979]), among other researchers of the Portuguese Language teaching field. It is an exploratory research anchored on Applied Linguistics and the qualitative interpretativist paradigm. As result, we conclude that the dialogic PLA needs to be developed considering the reflections about the extraverbal context of the enunciations so that the stylistic reflections may approach axiological and discoursive aspects of the texts which can broaden students’ ability to read, write and interpretate texts from diverse discoursive genres.