PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHING: GROUNDING THE PRACTICE OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS ON THE BAKHTINIAN STUDIES

ABSTRACT: This paper sought to ground the Practice of Linguistic Analysis (PLA) (GERALDI, 1984; 1997[1991]) in Bakhtin Circle's studies considering that this practice needs a more significant theoretical and methodological basis and that the dialogic studies can provide an interactive approach to the analysis of texts, focused on the stylistic-discursive strategies in Portuguese Language classes. Hence, our guide questions are: How to amplify the methodological approach for the dialogic PLA? How can the sociological method proposed by Volóchinov (2017 [1929]) constitute this PLA? Our reflections were based mainly on Bakhtin Circle's studies, including Volóchinov and Bakhtin (1926), Bakhtin (2010[1929]; 2013; 2016 [1979]), among other researchers of the Portuguese Language teaching field. It is a bibliographic and exploratory study anchored on Applied Linguistics and the qualitative interpretative paradigm. Our findings led us to conclude that the dialogic PLA must be developed considering the reflections about the extraverbal context of the enunciations so that the stylistic reflections may approach axiological and discursive aspects of the texts, which can broaden students' ability to read, write, and interpret texts from diverse discursive genres.