GÊNERO E DISCURSO NO EXAME CELPE-BRAS: a construção do feminino através de uma análise semiótica dos elementos provocadores

Abstract

With the rise of the Portuguese language and a considerable increase in foreigners in Brazil, the need arose to standardize a document that would allow non-natives to enter public institutions. It is in this context that the Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese (Celpe-bras) emerges, the only certificate officially recognized by the Brazilian government that attests proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners (PLE). Its evaluation is done through two parts: a Written and an Oral. Our study is guided by the Oral section, which consists of a Face to Face interaction with the examinee, based on three Provocative Elements. These materials contain verbal and non-verbal texts and act as a stimulus in the conversation between the Evaluator-Interlocutor and the participant. Addressing everyday and general interest topics, so that the examiner is able to express his oral proficiency in Portuguese. Among these themes of the Provocative Elements, questions about the female subject are integrated several times and it is from this circumstance that we developed this monograph in order to analyze how such materials bring the figure of the woman in its composition. Therefore, we propose to identify how women are being represented in the context of the examination for foreign interlocutors, analyzing whether past discourses reinforce or attenuate oppressions to the female gender historically constructed by patriarchal society. For that, we used as a theoretical contribution the Discourse Studies of the French Semiotics of Greimas (1973, 1979), which characterizes the construction of meaning in a generative path, composed of the levels: fundamental, narrative and discursive. Just as we are based on the postulates of Floch (1985, 1995) on verbovisual texts, developed in Brazil by Teixeira (2009, 2008). Complemented by the definition of gender by the studies of Beuavoir (2019), Perrot (2007), among others, to build the history of the patriarchal oppressive discourses that surround women. Our corpus of analysis is composed of six provocative elements separated in the themes: motherhood, beauty and empowerment. Therefore, a syncretic analysis of the provocative elements was carried out in order to compose a profile of the female subject in the exam.