ABSTRACT
In this article we aim to problematize the discourse of the “Law of Spanish”. We also approach the meaning effects contained in the speech of subject-teachers, which led us to deduce representations related especially to the law and its impacts as a public policy. The theoretical and methodological path was developed based on the corpus of the research, which consisted of both Spanish teachers’ speech and the integral text of the Law no. 11.161/2005. Our theoretical base is the French Discourse Analysis, interfaced with Lacanian psychoanalysis. We worked with the notions of happening and with the Foucauldian concepts of archive and dispositif of power. Our research has allowed us to interpret that the Law is represented as a faulty mechanism of power.
KEYWORDS:
Spanish language; Law 11.161/2005; representations; discourse analysis; Spanish foreign language teachers