The representations of teacher identity in Spanish language didactic manuals: an enunciative reading

The present text presents the results of a study on the representation of teacher identity in Spanish-language didactic books. The theoretical frame employed is the Enunciative theory by Benveniste, particularly the notion of subjectivity in language. We analyzed the written enunciation in a teacher...

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Autor: Werner, Kelly Cristini Granzotto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL)
Repositorio:Linguagem em (Dis)curso (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br:article/355
Acceso en línea:https://portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br/index.php/Linguagem_Discurso/article/view/355
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Enunciation
Didactic discourse
Subjectivity
Didactic book
Enunciación
Discurso didáctico
Subjetividad
Libro didáctico
Enunciação
Discurso didático
Subjetividade
Livro didático
Descripción
Sumario:The present text presents the results of a study on the representation of teacher identity in Spanish-language didactic books. The theoretical frame employed is the Enunciative theory by Benveniste, particularly the notion of subjectivity in language. We analyzed the written enunciation in a teacher’s manual and the teacher’s oral enunciation through the observation, recording and transcription of 4 hours of class. Among other aspects the category of person was analyzed. Our departing point was the interactive relation between I-you in the classroom, which allows the constitution of interactive subjects in language. We checked two working hypotheses: if the teacher follows closely the discourse of the manual he/she presents him/herself as a repeater of someone else’s discourse. If he/she does not repeat the manual, he/she then appears as the subject of his/her enunciation. We concluded that the teacher presented him/herself as a mediator between the book and the students, adopting his/her own discourse, but that the teacher and the students were dependent on the discourse in the book.