Letramento científico como prática de (trans)formação: um estudo a partir do gênero artigo de popularização científica (ArtPC).

Abstract

This article discusses literacy and science popularization practices, conceived here as a set of social and discursive practices that enable the understanding of scientific activity in their various dimensions and social applications. The main objective is to analyze how literacy and science popularization can contribute to the formation of critical subjects who are aware of the need to transform social reality. Based on the theoretical-methodological framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study focuses on the discursive practices of science popularization from the genre of science popularization article (SPArt). The corpus of analysis consists of a text of scientific popularization of the field of Linguistics, published in the magazine Pesquisa Fapesp: “For the survival of indigenous languages”, by Luisa Destri (2023). Scientific literacy aimed at language sciences, as shown in the analyzed text, constitutes an important instrument for linguistic education and citizenship formation. Various elements of scientific production can be incorporated into the teaching context to enhance the social and historical understanding of linguistic phenomena.