LITERATURES IN VULNERABILITY ENVIRONMENTS:From the Social Assistance Reference Center (Cras) to everyday practices
Linguistic, Literacy.
The multiple languages gain more and more notoriety in the contemporary world by linguistic studies, which, in turn, contemplates the multicultural and multifunctional diversities, mainly caused by the process of technological industrialization, communication and information in the capital of consumerism. In the universe in motion, uninterrupted and in constant transformation, language presents itself in a country like Brazil, a place of multiple regions and regionality.
Therefore, Critical Applied Linguistic Studies (LAC) understand language from the social, economic and cultural context, as it requires “reflection on itself” (PENNYCOOK, 2006), considering that overcoming the imposed dominant discourse is to recognize that there are cultures that are unfeasible, marginalized and oppressed.
Thus, new linguistic studies have become essential under the gaze of LAC to unveil new forms of functionality of languages that were once exclusively depreciated throughout history. For Jordão (2016, p. 13), the approach is based on the relationship of “alterity” and “hybrid” and points to “[...] relating to other areas, other knowledge, other methodologies, other visions” [...] “multifaceted, plural and contingent practices”, always under negotiation.
In this perspective, the studies of (multi) literacies have gained notoriety and legitimacy, as they are marked by multiple forms and ways, especially when it comes back to the social context (OLIVEIRA; KLEIMAN, 2008) and fits within the critical perspective that proposes to go beyond the traditionalist view, as it understands that the interlocutors construct meanings, independently of the social contexts.