O gênero questionário de pesquisa do (no) IBGE: produção, usos e implicações

Abstract

At this doctoral thesis, the survey questionnaire genre and its social implications in the working circuit of government employees of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Foundation (IBGE) are investigated. Specifically, the analysis focuses on questionnaires from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNADC), produced by IBGE to the 2011 and 2017 editions. Regarding the PNADC, this is an important probabilistic inquiry, whose information base comes from the oral narratives provided by the Brazilian population. At PNADC, the survey questionnaire consists of a relevant genre for the discussion and formulation of public policies related to the inquiry's themes. In addition, because it is linked to Applied Linguistics, an area that problematizes language issues in use in the multiple contexts of human activity (MOITA LOPES, 2006; 2011), present study emerges as a proposal to extend literacy practices in the census domain (COSTA, 2016). Following the orientations of the critical ethno-research with a qualitative approach of data, the corpus was constituted through the followed tools: documentary research, aimed at collected textual genres of the investigated area; realization of semi-structured interviews; and remote application of questionnaires to government employees of IBGE. For the theoreticalconceptual comprehension of textual genres, it uses postulates of the Bakhtin (2011 [1992]) and authors affiliated to Socio-rhetoric, notably Bazerman (2005; 2015a; 2015b), Miller (2012 [1984]), and Bhatia (2001 [1997]). About the studies interested in the written production of survey questionnaires, supported by the discussions of Vieira (2009), Dörnyei (2003), Gil (2008), among others. The analyzes highlighted that questionnaires of the PNADC: (i) although operate under the enunciative responsibility of writers of the statistical field, they are texts produced collaboratively, due to their broad thematic framework, demanding technical and specialized knowledge that points to their own ontology; (ii) assume characteristics of a socio-catalytic genre and move into other discursive domains by the action of Technicians and Research agents that actuates in the persuasion of the informer public and the retextualization of the institutional concepts; and (iii) trigger the production and subsequent circulation of countless other texts that gravitate around the questionnaires enabling, in this context, a system of genres marked by standardized forms of professional organization involving activities and people. Among the most relevant conclusive aspects, there is the need to rework the chapter of the questionnaires that deals with the characterization of the residents investigated in the sample, as well as thinking about the place of the excess of information that has been recurrently awakened by this textual genre, but ignored for institutional registry purposes.