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THE MOVEMENT OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND RESISTANCE IN THE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF A TRANS PERSON IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACTIVITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CONCEPTS OF INDEXICALITY AND SCALE

ABSTRACT

In this article, I rediscuss, in the light of the concepts of indexicality and scale, the movement of social reproduction and resistance in an English language activity, in which the students of an English course and I, the teacher of the group, have constructed the identity of a trans person (BENTO, 2014BENTO, Berenice. (2014). Nome social para pessoas trans: cidadania precária e gambiarra legal. Contemporânea, São Carlos, v. 4, no. 1, p. 165-182.). Such movement was first discussed in my master’s dissertation (LIMA-NETO, 2017LIMA-NETO, Luiz Martins de. (2017). Ensino crítico de línguas: reprodução social e resistência em uma sala de aula de língua inglesa. Dissertação (Mestrado). Brasil: Universidade Federal de Goiás.). The rediscussion of the empirical material in this text shows that the concepts utilised contribute to the understanding of how hegemonic ideas and behaviours are interactionally reproduced and resisted, mainly because they allow us to relate the micro to the macro, and vice-versa, thus showing us how these two scalar levels, really, constitute each other in a mutual and indexical way.

Keywords:
social reproduction; resistance; identity construction; indexicality; scale

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