Linguistic, epilinguistic and metalinguistic activities: Dialogic expansion

Abstract

This work presents a theoretical-methodological characterization from a dialogic perspective for linguistic, epilinguistic and metalinguistic applied activities of dialogic linguistic analysis. In the action research methodological plan, eight beginner teachers attending the supervised internship in Languages are given theoretical bases about language activities that are already consolidated by Applied Linguistics in Brazil. Next, the dialogic proposal and its principles are presented and discussed with the beginners. A text belonging to the genre Fable is used as organizer for the dialogic interaction between the beginner teachers and the professor. The discussion on dialogic concepts occurs while the linguistic analysis activities are elaborated to students from the 6th year of the elementary school, in a reflexive dialogic production, considering the research context: beginner teacher orientation. Our approach shows that linguistic activities happen while presenting the genre under a dialogic perspective, with methodological indications for such approach. Regarding the epilinguistic activities, they contemplate the axiological plan, for the valued comprehension of the discourse mobilized in the genre, while metalinguistic activities connect consolidated notion frames with axiological expansive interpretations raised by epilanguage.