Você estuda ou trabalha? estudo do termo trabalho em contexto acadêmico

Abstract

This dissertation proposes a discussion about the question of meaning, related to circulating themes in academic context, especially when post-graduate students in various phases of the process of titulation use the word work and some related verbal forms - work with , work at , work (transitive) - in their discourses. The data were collected through the method of semi-structured interview. As theoretical construct, we use the bakhtinian concepts of word , verbal sign , utterance , discursive genre , theme , composicional form and style . The study begins with a historical thematic survey related to discourses about work , in which we found four recurring themes - product, process, value and property, also present in the utterances in the interview. On analysing the themes in connection with the academic context, we noticed that they aim at a greater theme - the recognition. This last theme confronts the world of labor with the academic world in a symbiotic way. The use of the linguistic forms in the academic world aims at getting recognition from the world of labor by valorising the academic activity, seen as a process of construction in opposition to the world of labor, seen as a world of products. In its turn, the world of labor gets recognition from the academy as a source of professionals to enter the academic process to obtain titles. This titulation guarantees the quality of the products offered by an interprise of work , also called organization of work , and maintains the academy