This article aims to be part of the ongoing discussion on the teaching of literature written in English (LWE) in literature classes in undergraduate language programs. In order to do that, it shows the challenges posed by the Letras DCN (National Curriculum Guidelines for the undergraduate Language Teacher Education programs) as well as the reality literature teachers face due to the reduced number of hours of literature classes assigned in course curricula and to students' limited knowledge of English. Based on the dialogical concept of language and on the possibility of cooperation between scientific trends, we present a cooperative work between DDA (Dialogical Discourse Analysis) and Pragmatics, showing how consonant and dissonant they are. Besides, we present part of the analysis of Alice Walker's short story Her Sweet Jerome done by students, which, in this context of teaching LWE to students with limited knowledge of English, pointed to the possibility of Pragmatics being the first step towards a dialogical analysis of literary texts. KEYWORDS: Teaching Literature Written in English; DDA; Pragmatics; Cooperation RESUMO Este artigo objetiva participar das discussões sobre o ensino de literatura em língua inglesa (LLI) no cotidiano da sala de aula do
Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. RESUMO-Este artigo objetiva discutir o papel dos estudos linguísticos no campo dos estudos literários a partir do aporte teórico do Círculo (Bakhtin, Volochínov e Medviédev) e as implicações, no curso de Letras-Inglês, da assunção da concepção de linguagem (literária) proposta pelos autores russos. Metodologicamente, fugindo aos extremos formalismo e sociodeterminismo, não só apresenta a proposta de análise literária do Círculo em que a materialidade linguística busca a sua significação social, como, a partir desse entendimento, aponta alguns elementos estruturais do poema El sonavabitche de Gloria Anzaldúa. Esse poema, selecionado como representativo da literatura Chicana, segmento da literatura estadunidense contemporânea, aproxima a experiência de trabalhadores mexicanos ilegais nos Estados Unidos à instituição da escravidão nesse país (significação social). Esses elementos referiram-se, em especial, à travessia dos trabalhadores, à sua animalização e à "caçada" pelos fugitivos. Com base neste trabalho teórico-analítico, percebeu-se que o estudo da literatura de língua inglesa no curso de Letras-Inglês nessa confluência entre língua e literatura mobiliza imenso material por parte de professores e alunos e que esse diálogo entre essas áreas é primordial para a análise/ compreensão de obras literárias em seus textos originais, o que permite, inclusive, o enriquecimento do conhecimento da língua enquanto sistema. Palavras-chave: Círculo (de Bakhtin), língua e literatura em sala de aula, El Sonavabitche, Curso de Letras. ABSTRACT-This article aims at discussing the role linguistic studies play in literary studies based on the theoretical framework of the Circle (Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and Medvedev) and the implications in undergraduate English Language Teacher Education Programs of adopting the conception of (literary) language propounded by the Russian authors. Methodologically, away from theoretical extremes, viz., formalism and social determinism, not only does it present the proposal for literary analysis suggested by the Circle, by means of which the linguistic material of the work strives for social significance, but, based on this understanding, it also points to some structural elements of the poem El sonavabitche by Gloria Anzaldúa. This poem, selected as a representative of the Chicano Literature, a segment of contemporary American Literature, brings the experience of illegal Mexican workers in the United States close to that of slaves in that country (social significance). These elements referred especially to the crossing of the workers, their "animalization," and the "hunt" of fugitives. Based on this theoretical-analytical work, we perceived that the study of literature written in English in undergraduate English Language Teacher Education Programs in the confluence between language and ...
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All content of Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY 4.0 EDITORIAL Contemporary dialogues: What meanings? Which answers? / Diálogos do presente: quais os sentidos? Quais as respostas? With meaning I give anwers to questions. Anything that does not answer a question is devoid of sense for us. Mikhail Bakhtin 1 The continuous dialogue in the pursuit of answers to constitute meanings is a characteristic of human beings; "Life by its very nature is dialogic." as Bakhtin (1984, p. 293) 2 had already claimed. In the unfortunate context we live, a global pandemic so politically charged in our contry, again we search for meanings. And socially motivated dialogues are not always able to answer our questions. Given the quarantine and intense changes we face, the attempts to understand both social and human reality have influenced significantly the number of submissions to the journal. Discourse investigators show how Brazilian language science has remained active and productive even under adverse circumstances, which include the governmental politics that have limited research funds in general. The articles, by focusing on different utterances, aim to understand reality in texts that reflect and refract it ceaselessly. Life, art and knowledge are interwoven, and ethical, aesthetical and cognitive stances value different discourses. As it is known, "the word functions as an essential ingredient accompanying all ideological creativity whatsoever" (Volosinov, 1973, p. 15; original italics). 3 Therefore, as usual, the articles presented here study and analyze aspects of vairous ideological creations. Some texts deepen theoretical matters. Others search for meanings in the literary, filmic, political, health discourses… 1 Bakhtin, M. M. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays.
To be means to be for another, and through the other, for oneself. A person has no internal sovereign territory, he is wholly and always on the boundary; looking inside himself, he looks into the eyes of another or with the eyes of another. Mikhail Bakhtin 2 Who is the other-for-me? Who is the I-for-the-other? How do discourses in life, arts, sciences and media, both print and digital, help us to understand and to try and answer these questions, especially in contemporaneity? Based on those questions, Bakhtiniana's 14.1 issue, the first in 2019, gathers discursive studies from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, embracing important investigations. Some studies have taken their object from the digital world, either focusing on the recognition and investigation of identity politicswhich involve matters of recognition, affirmation and values of the "I-for-myself, the other-for-me, and I-for-the-other" (BAKHTIN, 1993, p.54) 3 and discuss themes of feminism, male chauvinism, racism, violence and
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Each word (each sign) of the text exceeds its boundaries. Any understanding is a correlation of a given text with other texts. Mikhail Bakhtin, 2006, p.161. 1 We are profoundly happy to inform that this issue of Bakhtiniana (vol. 13, iss. 1) starts the journal's tenth year of existence. It was created in 2008 by the Language,
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