| dc.description.abstract | In the contemporary world, many subjects seek outside their countries of origin for
better professional and personal conditions. Thus, far from their mother tongue, they are
faced with experiences of a new language and many face important difficulties because
they cannot be captured by the foreign language, even residing abroad, a condition that
could be a facilitator. Inquiries about this particularity culminated in the proposal of this
Thesis, which aimed to investigate the relationship of a Brazilian resident abroad with
the foreign language. The specific objectives were: to investigate to which refer the
difficulties in relation with the foreign language; investigate the relationship with the
mother tongue as a hindering aspect of foreign language capture. Therefore, it was
theoretically based on the linguistic and psychoanalysis constructs, emphasizing, among
others, the constitution of the unconscious subject, the capture by the mother tongue and
the relationship with the foreign language, from reference authors in these areas of the
subject. knowledge. From the methodological point of view, it was a qualitative
research, configuring as a case study, a favorable method for the investigation of
subjective realities. The research included Celina, a Brazilian who had lived abroad for
over six years, as not captured by the foreign language. The instruments used were a
questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, which took place via skype and
whatsApp, recorded in audio and fully transcribed. From the transcription were selected
clippings for analysis, considering speeches that indicated their position in front of the
foreign language in everyday relationships. The results of the analysis of the interviews
underscored the significant fear as the central core of his speech, which slid into other
significant chains pointing directly or indirectly toward him. In this sense, we point to
the idealized image of the speaker, which generates the effect of fear of making
mistakes, making her silenced or unable to speak / feel speaking a foreign language and
to her condition as an immigrant, placing her facing an inevitable departure from her
mother tongue, a language that constitutes her as a subject of the unconscious. We
highlight, then, effects of the mother tongue, the founding language on the relationship
between this Brazilian and the foreign language, effects that indicated different
difficulties in this relationship. | |
