Expressões racistas no gênero meme: um estudo intervencionista em aulas de língua portuguesa

Abstract

In this research, prejudice was addressed through racist expressions propagated in the meme genre. The discussion and analysis of this problem is necessary in the classroom, since in some situations they are not presented clearly, as they are disseminated in a subtle and natural way without awareness and reflection on the stereotypes and discrimination they carry. For this reason, it is necessary to create spaces for discussions, seeking to interpret their meanings, considering what they express in the linguistic, social and cultural dimensions. Thus, this interventional research was carried out, aiming to know and discuss racist expressions contained in memes in Portuguese Language classes. Therefore, this intervention was based on lexical studies on Phraseology (Monteiro-Plantin, 2014), and the meme genre (Ferreira et al., 2022). Methodologically, the proposal started from an action-research (Thiollent, 2000) of a quantitative and qualitative nature (Gil, 2000), developed based on a didactic sequence applied in a 7th grade class of a public school in the interior of the state of Paraíba. At the end of the investigation, we sought to raise awareness about the causes and consequences caused by expressions of racist content disseminated from language, with a view to contributing to the training of students capable of reading and interpreting texts produced in different genres, using as an example the genre memes. As a product generated from the application of the didactic sequence, a list of memes with racist expressions was elaborated, together with the students, presented as a result, allowing the explanation of the studied knowledge and the importance of conscience in the lexical choices in order to prevent the spread of racism.