Axiologies in dialogic comic strip reading activities

Abstract

Based on the sociological and dialogical conception of language, anchored on the assumptions of Bakhtin's Circle (BAKHTIN 2003; VOLÓCHINOV, 2019), this paper's main objective is to understand how the axiological concepts of language – the extraverbal of the utterance, intonation, and value judgments – contribute to the production of meaning in the reading of a modulated utterance in the discursive genre comic strip, expanding the readers' socio-ideological awareness. For this purpose, a comic strip and proposals for reading activities in a Portuguese language textbook intended for Youth and Adult Education (Educação de Jovens e Adultos or EJA) are taken as corpus. The paper seeks to demonstrate how axiologies are brought to problematization in the classroom and how they expand upon the textbook proposals. For this, the understanding of the live and valued discourse in the classroom is put in focus through the inseparable approach of the extralinguistic and linguistic/semiotic dimensions of the utterance.