Dialogues established between official discourse and academic-scientific journals: social practices of writing, production and disclosure of knowledge

Abstract

Brazilian scientific journals of different fields of study, such as Social Studies, Linguistics, Languages, Literature and Arts, Exact Sciences, Engineering and Humanities, have been analyzed with a view to assessing the dialogues established among those fields of study and the official documents involved in scientific production of Brazil. This is a qualitative-interpretative study carried out by means of document-based investigative procedures, following the theoretical principles advocated by Academic Literacy studies. The data collected from each journal can be summarized as follows: history, editorial committee, support and indexes, and a dialogue between such data as well as the characteristics of official discourse was established. Results evince that the journals analyzed herein establish a dialogue and respond to official discourse as well as to research agencies in different proportions. The response of journals towards research agencies and scientific activity regulation discourse is quite evident due to being of deliberative and outlined nature. This dialogue evinces the relationships of power established within social practices of writing, production and disclosure of knowledge, thus suggesting that language use involves different spheres, thereby taking place in a continuous discursive connection.

Keywords

• Diálogo. Discurso oficial. Periódicos acadêmico-científicos.