The present dissertation aims to investigate how the authorship-function assumed by Portuguese Language (PL) teachers as they produce their classes is constituted. To that end, this documental and ethnographic research was developedduring a bimester‟s time in a public school located in the city of Belém, Brazil, where we observed Portuguese classes taught to the sixth year of „Ensino Fundamental‟. Our corpus was assembled from teaching materials utilized by the teacher that collaborated to the research, activities solved by students and field log notes. Among those, we selected 33 discursive segments that were analyzed under the light of french Discourse Analysis. The discussion is based on Foucault (2001/1969), to whom the author-function may lead to the emergence of various subject-positions; on Orlandi (2007), to whom authorship implies a gesture by which an interpretable discourse is produced; and on Maingueneau (2008), who postulates the concepts of “discursive competence” and of “status of the enunciator and of the addressee” and “vocabulary” as discursive plans. These concepts, among some others, have contributed to interpret the discourses imprinted in the positions assumed by the collaborating teacher during her classes. Based on them, we analyze how the teacher plays the roles of didactic voice, acting as a mediator between students and knowledge; of speaker, in the interactions with the students, creating the necessary conditions for knowledge to be developed in class; and of a listening stance, trying to probe their difficulties and act upon them. The results indicate that the teacher, although listening to students in such a way that sometimes, is not realized completely, assumes the authorship-function by filtering or selecting what may or may not become part of her classes and by translating the enunciate of the other into her discourse, thus producing classes that have their own logic, in order to promote the teaching-learning process of the students.
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