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This article intends to bring some representations that university students construct from the others, through the analysis of cartoons published in the fanpage Drama Universitário, in order to establish some effects of meaning that emerge from the linguistic materiality, revealing some aspects of their identity, their way of relating to the others and the image that they build about themselves. Using a discursive perspective of language and socio-cultural studies about the construction of identity in the digital environment, the corpus of analysis allows us to make some gestures of interpretation which reveal that the university students are part of a discourse order where social hierarchy is reproduced, in spite of the fact that they have more opportunities to talk about themselves and be critical about power relations in the digital space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a discoursive perspective, this article intends to analyze some discoursive segments produced by undergraduate teachers in oral interviews, searching for identifying some foreign language representations of learning, which can appear in their speech. As a theoretical support, we are going to develop two concepts from psychoanalysis (need and desire), and also the idea of technologies of the self, developed by Foucault in his work. Considering the results of the analysis, we can conclude that learning a foreign language requires not only specific knowledge, such as vocabulary or grammar, but also involves unconscious processes which constitute the subject and his/her identity as a teacher. This identity, however, is conditioned by history and social meanings, which are produced by symbolic and imaginary relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]