Appropriations and socio-historical representations of the trinomial: reading, text and reader

Abstract

Different conceptions established among the reading, the text and the reader are analyzed here. For this, the starting point is a social-historical perspective, trying to understand the strategies, the development and the transformations in the various appropriations of the cultural production and its influence in the reader formation. Some factors of the manipulation of the cultural supports are highlighted, displaying the various modifications the forms of reading have been subjected; , the appropriations of the meaning of the texts, the production of printed materials and their representation in the society. We conclude with the situation of the state of Maranhão in relation to the practice of reading, literature, the didactic book and the forms of reading in the school and not in the school context, showing the importance that the beliefs, the intentions, the attitudes and the expectations on the reading process have, either on the part of the pupil, or the teacher, for a practical innovation in the reading formation and the different situations of the act of reading.