O enunciado do analfabetismo funcional no discurso midiático: contribuições ao debate sobre a alfabetização de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the media discourse on functional illiteracy. The theoretical-conceptual framework of this research is structured based on consultations of articles, books, dissertations, and theses. From a theoretical-conceptual perspective, this study initially appropriates the conceptual contributions of Soares (2003), Ribeiro et al. (2002), UNESCO (2008), and is grounded in the Archaeological Analysis of Discourse, by Michel Foucault (2008, 2022), based on the concepts of discourse and statement. The methodological procedures of this research are based on three stages, namely: 1) mapping of documents, 2) excavation of the discourse zone, and 3) analysis and description of statements (ALCANTARA and CARLOS, 2013). Based on the archaeological findings of discourse, it was found that the demographic-statistical function of functional illiteracy is central and evident. This study contributed, therefore, to the mapping of the media discursive network on functional illiteracy, which is composed of cause-and-effect relationships, different subject positions in different generations, as an object of public policy, and as an epistemological-classificatory problem.