Análise do discurso e práticas de leitura na sala de aula.

Abstract

As we provide a brief outline of the theoretical background initiated by Michel Pêcheux and complemented by Michel Foucaulfs reflections, we intend in tfais article to discuss some basic concepts to Díscourse Analysis and show how tfais fíeld of Linguistics can become an important tool for working with language in the classroom. With the contributions from those two thinkers, whose ideas complement each other, we can understand how the discourses work in social relations, as power relations. That articulation between discourse and power, brought about by Pêcheux and strengthened by Foucault, allows us to analyse the practices produced in discourses, the effects of such practices, how those practices are being naturalized, and what reahties are being constructed by the discourses. Thus, doing research in the classroom guided by the principies of DA, means to transform that space into a place where the discourses can circulate and promote reflections which are traly productive, as regards the relation between language and man.