Portuguese Language and Mathematics in Technological Courses: Studies on Logic of Language and Language of Logic

Abstract

: Technological education aims to fulfill social and labor world demands. Thus, its teaching-learning processes are directed to the application of new information technologies and require an approach of logic concepts as basis for reading practices, text production and understanding of mathematical concepts. This paper presents strategies approach between two areas: Linguistics and Mathematics, based on the studies of Oswald Ducrot (1981) on the argumentative conception of language, especially when describing the logic of language. Thus, the research aims at developing, from reflections on logic and language, interdisciplinary methods of approach in the Communication and Mathematics subjects that might provide students who attend technological higher education a greater mastery at logic, both in argumentative as well in Mathematics; and encourage them to apply mathematical skills toward solving practical problems and understanding Mathematics as a formal instrument of expression and communication, which seeks to achieve real aspects for multiple sciences. We present a reading method of a verbal text by decomposing it in logical propositions, and chaining them in logical expressions. More than translating one language to another, we tried to bring the two areas as a strategy to make the student aware on the logical-mathematical structure of the language.