FORENSIC LINGUIST: A POSSIBILITY OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCEFOR A BRAZILIAN LICENCIATE DEGREE IN LETTERS FROM IFRN?

Abstract

Write about this topic arises in the setting of 
concern regarding the future employment of the 
licentiate degree in letters, in the face of a labor 
market, in the field of teaching, increasingly 
limited and harassed by public policies of 
education Brazilian, mainly for the area of the 
Spanish Language. In this context, we aim in 
this research work to glimpse other fields of 
professional action, beyond teaching, 
specifically forensic linguistics. To achieve this, 
we resort to documentary, bibliographic and 
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field research to find support for the 
understanding that a licentiate degree in letters 
would have other possibilities of professional 
performance. In the documentary and 
bibliographic research, we have focused on 
documents such as the pedagogical course 
projects, laws inherent to the subject, as well as 
seeking theoretical support in the thought of 
Colares (2017, Vichi (2021), Velasco & Vieira 
(2020), among others that would allow us to 
know, reflect and discuss the formation of 
licentiate degree in letters and the probable 
diversification of his performance and 
professional projection. In the field research, 
the data analyzed is a response to the semistructured questionnaire research instrument 
that quite clearly reveals the lack of knowledge 
and information about other fields of action for 
a licentiate degree in letters other than teaching; 
We also concluded about the relevance of 
continuous training and specialized 
qualification to act in other fields such as 
forensic linguistics, because the training in 
Letters has all the initial input necessary for this 
field. We believe that this work is relevant 
because it brings support and information to 
define or redefine professional performance in 
an area that is, or is not, considered important 
for the Brazilian society, the teaching, and even 
more so, in the Spanish language teaching.