The inscription of the subject in academic writing under a dialogic perspective

Abstract

In the academic sphere, it is common that one find texts which do not reflect the enunciative-discoursive specificities of their context of production and circulation. This inconsistency is a result, in general, of the students’ lack/misunderstanding concerning the academic discourse genres. In order to contribute to decrease this gap, this paper aims at understanding the manners how the subject in a position of university student is stricken in his/her writing productions in the academic sphere. To do so, we ally theoretical assumptions from Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis to analyze the text production as a result of an evaluative activity developed by a student in the end of the first term of his entrance in the university. The criterion used for choosing the corpus for analysis was the degree of difficulty faced by this student, when compared to his classmates, in the production of texts under the perspective of academic discourse genres in the Reading and Text Production  discipline offered in a undergraduate course. The analysis demonstrated a reflection of how it is possible through a dialogic relationship, in Bakhtin’s Circle terms, to mobilize the student (as a subject) who writes in this academic sphere in order to be inscribed in it as well.