ENEM’s essay and the production of discourses related to the standard norm on Instagram

Abstract

This article, in the light of Foucauldian Discursive Studies, aims to analyze statements taken from the social network Instagram which put into discourse the requirement of using the standard norm for senior high school students when preparing for the writing evaluation of the National High School Exam (ENEM), in order to verifying whether there is the exercise of normalization and normatization practices towards the subjects of education in relation to the language. Thus, four profiles of Portuguese language teachers, producers of content on Instagram related to the exam were selected and, based on these profiles, four posts were clipped in order to identify, amid the constitutive dispersion of the discourse, the regularities present in teachers' speeches about the imposition of the standard norm. As a theoretical path, the reflections presented are based on Foucauldian analytics referring to the theoretical-methodological instrument composed of the concepts of conditions of possibility, discourse, statement, discursive formation and subject and, also, in discussions proposed by Veiga-Neto and Moraes (2000, 2008), for the dialogue with Education. The results shows, through the regularities, that the teachers corroborate to the disciplinary normalization of the exam and occupy the position of subject-teacher capable of molding and qualifying the student for the participation in the exam.