The thesis presents an analysis of the practices a
nd representations of academic literacy based
on the didactic transposition of the Comi cs genre in the Rura l Educati on degree : Codes and
Languages Arts and Music Licenciatura em Educação do Campo: Códigos e Linguagens
Artes e Música ) at the Federal Un iv ersity of Tocantins (UFT), campus Tocantinópolis. This
research conceives Comics as a discursive genre an d teachin g object. The analysis focuses on
the didactic, thematic and visual aspects of the Comics and is based on literacy theories,
grounded in the f ield of Applied Linguistics, which is a social science of language studies of
interdi sciplinary nature (M OITA LOPE S, 2006). The research works with social actors from
peasant communities and the target genre of the production is characterized as multisem io tic,
permeated with verbal and non verbal language, giving the collaborators the poss ibility of
going bey ond the l imits of writing. The data of the study consists of texts from 15 examples
of the Comics genre and excerpts (transcribed) from 14 interviews c onducted with the
research collaborators. The methodology employed is participant research (BRANDÃO,
1998), si nce there was a direct interaction between researcher and collaborators; the
researcher also attended classes and performed all activities of th e subject along with the
collaborators. The thesis is qualitative interpretative in nature (FLICK, 2009 ) and bas ed on
the content analysis technique (BARDIN, 2016). The data were generated through the
optional subject "Comics", offered in the 6th period of the mentioned degree, aimed at people
from the countryside, being the collaborator s indigenous, peasan ts, quilo mbolos etc. Because
the Comics genre has a blending of different language systems, including non verbal and
textual language, it was possible t o identify traces of literacy that students have in their life
experiences. The res earch collaborators come from different communities in rural Brazil, so
they presented diverse and peculiar practices and representations of academic literacy. The
thesis br ings significant results to the area of Language Studies, showing that the Comics
g enre can be a pedago gical ins trument within the university space; corroborating its role not
only as a data collection tool, but also as a teaching material. From their vi su al and linguistic
signs, Comics can help researchers interpret the reality of those who produced it, se rving as a
source of research for various themes.
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