The cordel as a discourse genreon teaching materials based on a linguistic variety

Abstract

This work aims to comparate the variacionist studies and the teory of discursive genders by analyse of a cordel situated on teaching materials and its relation to the valorization of regional linguistic variation, in order to eliminate linguistic prejudices. For that, they were analised two teaching materials of Portuguese Language that shows the discursive practices with the cordel discursive gender, as know: i) 8th degree (junior high school) of Tecendo Linguagens collection, IBEP (2012) – government version, PNLD 2014; ii) 7th degree Projeto Athos: língua portuguesa, FTD (2014) – market version. In order to guide the research, they were set the following research questions: i) Is it possible to observate on teaching materials the bakhtinian’s theoretical assumptions based on the discussion about discourse genders?; ii) The didactic work with the cordel on didactic materials validates the valorization of the dialect where it’s from?; iii) May we compare didactaly linguistic register used on cordels to the educational Sociolinguistic theory?; iv) The didactic work with the cordel gender was studied with a form to eliminate linguistic prejudice? As research tools, it was used the research and analyses of cordel gender on the didactic materials added to the light of Bakhtin’s theoretical approach (2006), to Bronckart’s sociodiscursive interactionist (2003), Labov’s variationist studies (2008), and Bagno’s (2007) and Bortoni-Ricardo’s (2013) Educational Socioliguistic. In a general view, it was possible to see some work using the Bakhtin’s assumptions relative to the discursive genders; however, these materials shows a insufficient approach of the linguistic variation as a characteristic of the cordel gender.