Poetic arrangements in the living language: a dialogical experience

Abstract

This article deals with the social horizon expansion of basic education students in Portuguese classes from a practical experience having the language as a living element, in which the poetic arrangements are significant in the verbal interaction. We start from the principle that the interaction studies, specially the ones from the Dialogical Discourse Analysis, can enlighten the Applied Linguistic discussion in Portuguese teaching in Basic Education. The goal of this reflection is to establish the relations between practice and the social horizon concept, considering the expansion results from the meaningful experiences in/with the language. The methodology comprehends a research-action working with poetic language, which was developed in a first year high school class from a public school in Passo Fundo city, state of Rio Grande do Sul,. The work allowed us to conclude that the practice in Portuguese teaching does not only involve the discussion of language as subject of study, but mainly the language as a social phenomenon, marked by the ideological matter, by the subject related to life, in which the poetic arrangements are a way to live the social and cultural reality capable to establish meaning through their effects on people and on life in society.