VOICES IN DIALOGUE IN THE PROMIL: A DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEMALE SELF
Language. Discursive practices. Cultural identity. Gender. Mulheres Mil Program.
This dissertation aims to investigate the construction of the identity of women during their training process in the Fish Preparation course developed at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte [Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte] through the Mulheres Mil National Program in the city of Macau. This program is part of a set of priorities of Brazilian public policies, especially in relation to pivotal issues concerning the promotion of equity, gender equality, the combat to end violence against women, and access to education. In this context, this research establishes, most importantly, in the theoretical field, connections to the studies of language, culture and gender; as to the research methodology, from the Critical Applied Linguistics perspective, which is a transdisciplinary approach, the corpus was constructed through individual semistructured interviews, portfolios and conversation circles after the end of the course. Associated with the qualitative-interpretative research – above all because it is interested in people’s experiences and in their perspectives about those experiences –, the analysis of the utterances revealed how these women perceive themselves in the analyzed chronotope and how they reflect and refract part of the feminine universe, seeing prospects for themselves, for others and for society, although such perceptions of identity are constantly altered.