O Sense of the Word "Indigenous" on an Elementary School Textbook

Abstract

In this work we analyzed two excerpts from a 9th grade Elementary School textbook, “Portuguese Language”, with the objective of identifying the meanings of the word “indigenous” on them. Our initial research hypothesis is that the texts found in the Didactic Books, constituting our corpus, could demonstrate, as much a social place defending respect for diversity, as those reiterating prejudice against the indigenous, that is, memorable that date back to historical records. which constitute meanings of social exclusion of the indigenous. This research is affiliated with the Semantics of Happening (SA), proposed by Eduardo Guimarães (2002), who understands that the senses constitute the event of saying. In view of the conception of non-transparency of language, SA theory makes it possible to observe meanings and relations between linguistic terms of a text from its historical relations. Thus, based on the concepts and analytical procedures of the Semantic of Event, during our methodological analysis we considered the enunciative procedures of meaning production - rewriting and articulation, the construction of a DSD (Semantic Domain of Determination) and temporality.