A formação crítico-reflexiva do revisor de textos: a construção da profissionalidade em uma empresa júnior

Abstract

The non-regulation of proofreading activity as a profession has instigated the interest of researchers to better understand the functioning of this professional activity (BESSA, 2015; ROCHA, 2015; OLIVEIRA, 2016; RIBEIRO, 2016; PORTO, 2016; LEMOS, 2017). In the wake of these studies, the present research seeks to investigate the way in which the profissionality of proofreaders is constructed and which stages constitute this process. For this, the theoretical-methodological contribution has anchorage in the precepts of Critical Discourse Analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003; 2016), because it is a theory aimed at understanding social emancipation through linguistically oriented discourse analysis, having as an instrument of analysis the Transitivity System (HALLIDAY; MATHIESSEN, 2014), which makes it possible to verify how our research participants (re)signify the proofreading activity from their experiences. In addition, in order to understand the process of professional formation, this study is aligned with the theory of reflective professional education (SCHÖN, 2000). Methodologically, the study has as a research universe a proofreading junior company (JC) (Grámmatos Jr.) linked to the Bachelor of Arts in Portuguese - UFSM and to the extension project Formação de revisores de textos (GAP: 044795). As research participants, we have three members of the junior company that meet the following pre-established criteria: i) attendance in the participation of JC's activities; ii) willingness to participate in the research activities; iii) be a member of JC since its creation. For the linguistic data analysis, corpora are composed of three instruments: i) semi-structured questionnaire; ii) experience reports; and iii) semi-structured interview. The analysis and discussion of the results was divided into two moments: contextual and textual analysis. The contextual analysis turns to a mapping of the contexts in which the object of study is inserted: i) contextualization of the proofreader profession in Brazil; and ii) contextualization of the work universe of Grámmatos Jr. The textual analysis focuses on the materials generated during the research, through which we had access to the experiences experienced by our research participants. As results, we verified that the profissionality in the space of Grámmatos Jr. is constructed by the following steps: before-action, know-in-action, reflection-in-action and critical-reflection-action-from-action. In addition, we found recurrence and alternation of material and mental processes in the participants' discourses, signaling the importance of the complementarity of practical and theoretical knowledge to subsidize the critical-reflexive process before the profession.