Discurso e ensino: as posições sujeito e os embates sociais presentes nas tirinhas da Mafalda

Abstract

In this paper, we present a study about comic strips and their role in the classroom. Studies and analyzes of this textual genre have been increasingly frequent, especially in textbooks. Thus, we aim to captivate this modality by presenting it as an additional tool for the interpretive gestures of students in the classroom, as well as in the formation of more critical and reflective students in our current context. We chose as the object of study three strips by Mafalda that demonstrate the child character's questions and dissatisfaction with social and political problems. To carry out our investigation, we will use as a basis the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Pechetian Discourse Analysis (DA). This perspective understands the subject of discourse as a historically constituted place crossed by ideology and the unconscious, which, in this way, does not have control over its saying, nor is it a source of meaning. Understanding this dimension, we sought to investigate how the sayings, the criticisms present in the strips produce meanings and what is silenced in this hybrid genre. We also bring the contributions of Marcuschi (2015)conceptualize the textual genre and Orlandi (1996, 1999 and 2007) for the concepts of implicit and silencing.