Representações sociais, memória e identidades

a produção de sentidos do discurso do idoso

Abstract

To study the discourse of the elderly, what he thinks of aging, which are representations of themselves and the society is to produce a discursive perspective meanings of what they say and what is said on those subjects where the constitution of identities. Is the interaction and because of it, it creates a sense making process, constituting a movement of organized speech production, due to a continuous interaction between and production conditions. In the verbal text, we produce not only senses of what is said, what is explicit, but also ways of saying allow a reading of the elements that, although implicit, reveal themselves and show the interaction as a set of representations in which knowledge occurs through a process of negotiation, exchanges, shared norms of compromise. In this sense, we aim in this article analyze the speech
296 Silvane Aparecida Freitas
of the elderly, re-signify the representations that make the elderly themselves
and today’s society, taking into account all the socio-cultural-ideological in
which they live.