The historicity of phrases in the speech of the State Secretary of Education and the functioning of discursive memory

Abstract

In this article we seek to revisit, from the theoretical-methodological perspective of Materialist Discourse Analysis, statements made by the State Secretary of Education of Rio Grande do Sul in the live “Guidelines on the closing of the 2022 school year”, to understand the realization of the speech since its affiliation with memory networks as well as the functioning of discursive memory from the cutting of two discursive sequences (SD), identifying the Discursive Formation (DF) in which the SD are inscribed and through which other FDs are crossed. We understand that the subject is constituted by memory and forgetfulness, inscribing itself in a certain filiation of meanings, and memory is reconstructed in enunciation, returning to the meanings produced by the phrases “integral education” and “thing” in certain conditions of production. We highlight, from the analytical-discursive work carried out, that the Secretary, ideologically subjected, is determined by the Pedagogical-Administrative Discursive Training and seems to have assimilated educational organization guidelines consistent with the neoliberal capitalist mode of production. However, the FDPA is in relationship with other FD, reverberating what was said before, incorporating, but also changing its meaning since memory allows both repetition and displacement of meanings. Raquel, when stating something, probably stops saying something and meanings are silenced - which points to a dispute over meanings about Education between a way that understands school as being about free time to learn and another way that sees school as the instance of training the student to insert it in a way adapted to the demands of the job.