The social uses of written language in the school space of adult women in process of alphabetization inserted in a graphocentric society

• Main Author: Rosângela Pedralli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2012-10-01
• Series: Fórum Linguístico
• Subjects: educação de Jovens e Adultos; alfabetização; letramento.
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/25601

This article, result of a case study of ethnographic type, has as object the written modality of language in the scholar space of women participants of the Young and Adults Education Course –1st Segment of Florianópolis City Hall. The question that guides the study is “how are characterized the social uses of written language in the school space of adult women in process of alphabetization inserted in a graphocentric society?” Theoretically, this study is based on Street (2003 e 1984), Hamilton (2000), Kleiman (2007, 2001 e 2001 [1995]), Halté (2008 [1998]), among others. The results signalizes to school uses of written language with a dimension that is still a lot artificialized, restricted to the school space, with infantilization components or with approximations with common sense, rarefying the written language, yet having a movement in search for new configurations/approximations with the theoretical ideal of speech genres (BAKHTIN, 2003 [1952/53]) and a work still initial with the new technologies.