Participation and academic literacy

Abstract

How are reading and writing involved in the classroom practices of first-year subjects in Humanities majors? How does “literate culture” occur around the written texts and oralities that configure the epistemic function of each discipline? In this work, I will analyze, from a linguistic anthropological perspective, the notion of participation as a form of structuring and scaffolding of literate events and social agencies from the approach of scenes of academic literacy. These reflections will provide an understanding of academic literate practices as sociocultural facts and as strategies for the analysis of the context in which they are embedded, circulate and reproduced. In the best of cases, they will allow the solidified schemes of the university field to be problematized for the generation of more inclusive, but no less rigorous, practices in relation to the universe of texts and specialized knowledge.