A perspectiva discente sobre a formação profissional em Letras/UFJF – construindo um diálogo interteórico a partir da análise semântica do discurso

This study discusses the professional education in the area of Languages and Literature (FALE – UFJF), especially regarding the Portuguese licentiate degree. We investigate the perspective established by the undergraduates’ speeches about their own education. We propose a semantic and socio-cognitive analysis of the students’ experience narratives, taken as the main analytical categories (i) the concept of frame as defined by the Frame Semantics (FILLMORE, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1985; PETRUCK, 1996) and by its lexicographic project FrameNet ( ) and (ii) the definition of frequency according to the linguistic usage architecture defined by the Usage-Based Models (GOLDBERG, 1995; LAKOFF, 1987; TOMASELLO, 2003; SALOMÃO, 2002, 2009b; CROFT e CRUSE, 2004, MIRANDA, 2008). The recognition of the hybrid and complex character of our inquire makes the scientific spaces surpass the disciplinary boundaries of Linguistics, leading to the assumption of an inter-theoretical dialogue among different areas (CAMPOS, 2007; GIERE, 2006). Therefore, the students’ voices are compared to different discursive orders found both in narratives about contemporary society and education (BAUMAN, 2007, 2005, 1999, 1998, 1992; BERMAN, 2001; APPLE, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006; BEECH, 2009; FRIGOTTO e CIAVATTA, 2003; CHAUÍ, 1999, 1997; CUNHA, 2003, 2004) as well as in the new Languages and Literature major curricular proposal. Another goal of our investigation is the theoretical-methodological ambition of deepening a proposal of discourse analysis linked to the frame category that could be a base for the comprehension of not only educational social experiences, but also of experiences of other kinds (MIRANDA; 2013, MIRANDA e BERNARDO, 2013; MIRANDA e LIMA, 2013). The corpus of our research consists of purposive samples, formed by 149 narratives (26,5% of a total of 567 students) of experience collected from 2011 to 2013 at the Language and Literature School of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The results present the frame ...