LINGUAGEM COMO PRÁTICA SOCIAL: AÇÕES DA/NA ESCRITA ACADÊMICA

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the academic writing through the social practices of the university. It starts with the hypothesis that there is a constructive process of writing closely related to the process of (re)construction of identities (BAUMAN, 2005; HALL,2006) of academics during graduation, because they become part of the university practices and intervene in that environment using the language as a subsidy. The methodology of this paperwork, qualitative basis, consists in the monitoring of two graduates of the Bachelor's Degree in Modern Language from the State University of Ponta Grossa to check and analyze some of these influences which are coming from the university environment and reflect in the production of academic writing (BALOCCO,2001, WILSON 2009). To organize the corpus of this research, interviews were conducted, analysis of texts produced by academic participants during graduation were made, and a discussion group. Thus, this research discusses, from the data, the reflections of this process in order to notice the linguistic actions reverberated in the writing of the participants, considering the individual and institutional interests, which rule some norms of the academic writing. The theoretical studies are related to Linguistic Pragmatics (RAJAGOPALAN, 2010; MEY, 2001a, 2010) in order to reflect on the uses of language in a perspective in which it is seen as performative (AUSTIN,1962; OTTONE, 1998) and in the critical study of language and discourse (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001a, 2001b). It is considered that the doing in linguistic uses involves interests and choices, which are eminently political (RAJAGOPALAN, 1998,2003, 2008a) and should also be approached from a critical view in pragmatics in order to realize the games of power in social environments as a fundamental aspect in political writing (CORREA, 2010; 2011), in the acting and the intervening in the subject. Thus,the results indicate that it is possible to see some Language politics acting in the academic writing amid social practices in the university environment exerting thus influence on identity construction and on the production process of academic writing.