A leitura do Museu da Língua Portuguesa à luz de uma concepção de texto

Abstract

This Master s dissertation is directly related to the context of my professional experience as an Educator at the Museum of the Portuguese Language MLP located in the Estação da Luz (train station), in the city of São Paulo. The MLP is, therefore, the object of this study. In this sense, I have defined this museum as a large and complex text that presents itself to be read by visitors. Its enunciators are the founders and organizers who conceived and implemented it: Roberto Marinho Foundation. The first readers of this text are the Educators who, in their professional activities, mediate the reading of such peculiar immaterial collection that has the Portuguese language as the theme of its text. The addressees, that is, the target audience of the reading mediated by the Educators, are teachers and students in the public education system. The reading project aims, then, to validate the efficacy/efficiency relation of the museum reading. In the present dissertation, I shall attempt to expose the different strategies used by the enunciator (Museum/Educator) to configure the theme in question the Portuguese language and present it as a collection on display. The study considers the notion of verbovisual language syncretism as a fundamental conception of text and an important mechanism of analysis that allows visitors to read, understand and interpret the senses produced by the diverse forms of communication used in the presentation of the museum collection. Peculiar characteristics of this text define a reading profile which is revealed through the text itself and through the strategies of the reading process of MLP s text.