I want to read and write in the short film “Vidas Maria”: A child’s pleading, manifest in the utterance “You stay there, doing nothing, just drawing the name!”

Abstract

This paper is about a reading proposal based on the dialogic concept of evaluative intonation, as a tone of social discursive practices, from the analysis and understanding of the statement “Stand there, doing nothing, drawing a name” in the movie “Vidas Maria”, from the manifestation of the evaluative intonation. The procedures aim in analyze the verbally expressed speech, added to gestures, movements, facial expressions, body postures, drawings, landscapes, etc. addressing to understand the implicit and explicit children’s pleas, which they externalize the desire for inclusion in schooling processes. For the theoretical -conceptual discussion, It is considered that language and meanings emerge from the individuals experiences in the multiple social-evaluative relationships established in their environment, precisely because they are anchored in the social collective. The research it is underpinned in Bakhtin (2003[1979]; Volóchinov (2019[1926]; Medviédev (2016[1928]); Abramowicz (2016). The methodological section analyzis the discuourse uttered in the the short film, “Stand there, doing nothing, drawing a name”, stand on the theoretical characteristis of the concept defined by Bakhtin’s Circle and Bezerra (2020). The preliminar results indicate that inotantion, when considered and worked in the process of understanding genres, verbal-visual, audiovisual, among others, raises shared social practices, cooperating with assimilation, re-evaluation and updating of the word in use, contributing to the construction of meaning and, consequently, to the interpretation of discursive genres.