Representações de atores sociais em fontes autorais e não autorais em relatórios de estágio de um curso Técnico em Agropecuária Integrado: um estudo sistêmico-funcional

Abstract

This work aims at studying the representation for social actors in authorial and non-authorial sources in supervised internship reports of a Technical Course in Agropecuaria Integrated to the Secondary School. Its main intent is to analyze the representations for social actors in authorial and non-authorial sources in the reports. The theoretical framework adopted is the Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL): the conception of language, the transitivity and taxis systems, within the ideational metafunction, and the semantic resource of projection (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014). The Inventory of sociosemantic categories for social actors (VAN LEEUWEN, 2008) is also used. The Technical Course in Agropecuaria Integrated to the Secondary School of Farroupilha Federal Institution – Campus Santo Augusto is the universe of analysis. The corpus consists of a set of supervised internship reports from the referred course. The analysis procedures are: the investigation of the linguistic mechanisms used to indicate authorial and non-authorial sources in the reports, the identification of social actors and the analysis of their representation in the authorial and non-authorial sources. The results indicate that the student trainee, the small farmer, the agropecuaria supervisor technician and the specialized professional of the research field of Agropecuaria are discursively represented in the texts of the corpus. The number of exclusions is bigger than the number of inclusions in both sources. The small farmer is discursively the social actor with a greater number of exclusions, which is realized in the texts by nominalizations and passive agent deletions. In the authorial sources, the student trainee is discursively the social actor with the greater number of inclusions, by functionalization. In the non-authorial sources, the small farmer is the only social actor included, by means of spatialization. As for the activities, in the authorial sources, considering the inclusions, the student’s activities comprise those which involve actions from the consciousness world, realized by mental processes. As for the small farmer, they concern the practical execution, namely, the material actions. The agropecuaria supervisor technician’s activities are represented in the texts by mental processes. Four are the discursively construed representations for the student trainee: the student trainee who is able to evaluate, the student trainee who makes things in the material world, the trainee as an agropecuaria technician and the trainee as a report author. The student trainee is represented as having an active role in most of the representations. For the small farmer, three are the discursively construed representations: as a professional who performs agropecuarian activities, as the owner of a property, and as a client. The agropecuaria supervisor technician is represented as a professional who supervises the student as well as the small farmer. Concerning the exclusions, in the authorial sources, the small farmer is the one with the highest number of instances, by nominalization, followed by the student trainee, whose most of the exclusions is realized by the agent passive deletion, and the agropecuaria supervisor technician, who is excluded mostly by nominalization. In the authorial sources, the activities represented in the discourse for the social actors are realized, at a higher rate, respectively, by material, mental and mental processes. In the context in turn, there seems to be happening a social relationship dynamic which is constituted by the small farmer, who performs material activities, the agropecuaria supervisor technician, who guides both the small farmer in his activities and the student trainee in his process of apprenticeship, the specialized professional of the research field of Agropecuaria, who introduces a more specialized theoretical content, and the student trainee, who represents himself in the discourse as a learner under apprenticeship.