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Letramentos na construção civil: um estudo sobre as leituras e as escritas dos técnicos de segurança do trabalho
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COSTA, Klébia Ribeiro da. Letramentos na construção civil: um estudo sobre as leituras e as escritas dos técnicos de segurança do trabalho. 2019. 123f. Tese (Doutorado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.
Autor
Costa, Klébia Ribeiro da
Resumen
Language is a human construction, employed since the first known generations to make
communication among individuals and their people easier. Given its importance, playing a
mediating role in a modern society as a means of daily social interactions, it has become a
topic of interest for several researchers in the literacy field, observing its uses and the
consequences that it causes to its users’ life. Considering that written language is a mediator
of human relationships and that it plays a paramount role for social agency, the present work
intends to shed light on the literacy practices carried out by Workplace Health and Safety
Officers who work in the civil construction industry, aiming to investigate how these practices
are done and how they contribute to the preservation of health and life of those who work in
such workplace. The study is in the scope of Applied Linguistics, it is qualitative in nature
with ethnographic traits (BODGAN; BIKLEN, 1994; ANDRÉ, 1995; CANÇADO, 1994).
Theoretically, it is anchored in the conceptions of literacy as a social practice (KLEIMAN,
1995; OLIVEIRA; KLEIMAN, 2008; BARTON; HAMILTON, 1998), as language as a
mediator of work activities (NOUROUDINE, 2002; PAZ, 2008), and as agency with
positions assumed by individuals by interacting with various texts (BANDURA, 2001;
ARCHER, 2000). The analysis points out the importance that literacy practices assume to
guide, ensure rights and spaces, register the work done, and most importantly, to provoke
changes in attitude such as how the risks that the work presents for those who develop their
labor activities in this scope, assuming, thus, an agentive perspective by encouraging changes
in attitude of many employees who work in the civil construction industry. Therefore, the
work has as a contribution to evidence the Agentivo character of the writing of technicians
and the potential of literacy practices of these professionals to modify the relationships
between work, welfare and safety in the workplace.