Inside walls or beyond them: the adventure of knowledge!

Abstract

The power of the language, the fact that it is the body of content and the way of expression of social relations are usually disregarded in school. These issues are well exemplified in the French motion picture Entre les Murs (The
Class), by François Bégaudeau. The nonunderstanding
of the role of language leads to the definition of communication as information transmission, disqualifying the
process of interaction among subjects in the sense construction. This issue can also be gathered in the analysis of the British
motion picture directed by Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire. The protagonist, the young man Jamal, becomes the winner of
a million quiz show because he understands the keywords that are introduced to him as anwers to the questions as clues to remind him facts of his personal experience. The words do not have significance because they are introduced as the quiz answers, but because they remind him of his own life. Both pictures are excellent examples for the study of the communication reception and they can be knowledge sources
for teachers and students in classroom.