The genres of aggregation exam: between academic discourse and scientific discourse

Abstract

Bakhtine's statement that we speak by discourse genres is consensual. The adoption of this postulate leads to consider the theoretical status of discursive genre and the area of verbal activity in which it is included, that is, the type of discourse in which it takes place. In other words, to analyze the language in use, it is necessary to discuss the concept of discourse genre, to find out what defines a genre or which parameters to consider for the analysis. Within an academic event called Provas de Agregação (aggregation exam), the present work aims to determine, describe and explain the categorization of one of the speeches part of this event, an institutional genre called Lição (Lesson). Attention to empirical discourses and all the contribution of research to their categorization direct scientific discussion to topics such as the delimitation of genres and types of discourse. This academic communicative event under study has characteristics that are important for the analysis of this problematic. This research, based on a corpus, analyses the users' perceptions about the genre Lição, within a theoretical framework of discourse analysis.