CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Em nosso trabalho, investigamos as representaÃÃes sociais construÃdas por cinco alunas da educaÃÃo de jovens e adultos do Projeto SESC Ler de Fortaleza acerca de seu processo de aprendizagem formal e inicial da leitura e da escrita, bem como de aspectos que tal processo envolve, como, por exemplo, a vida sem saber ler e escrever. Com o intuito de aproximar campos teÃricos diferentes - a teoria das representaÃÃes sociais de Serge Moscovici (2007), a AnÃlise do Discurso de linha francesa e os pressupostos da intertextualidade de Genette (1982), revistos por PiÃgay-Gros (1996) - tomamos as representaÃÃes sociais como prÃticas discursivas, na medida em que ambas orientam as aÃÃes dos sujeitos, ancorando-se na memÃria discursiva e na memÃria coletiva para se constituÃrem atravÃs de um constante dialogismo entre os diversos textos e discursos jà existentes. Para analisÃ-las, delimitamos os espaÃos discursivos que nos foram relevantes por meio da seleÃÃo de trechos dos relatos das alunas e verificamos as posiÃÃes discursivas assumidas em suas enunciaÃÃes. A partir daÃ, recorremos Ãs relaÃÃes de copresenÃa de alusÃo e de citaÃÃo, para, atravÃs delas, em uma anÃlise qualitativa intertextual e interdiscursiva, identificarmos as representaÃÃes sociais formadas. Ao todo, foram encontrados onze aspectos que caracterizam as representaÃÃes sociais, sendo trÃs representaÃÃes como nÃcleo central e oito caracterÃsticas embasadoras, organizadas conforme as noÃÃes de sistema central e perifÃrico (ABRIC, 1994). As alunas discorrem sobre o que as levaram a voltar para a escola, sobre as motivaÃÃes para aprender a ler e a escrever, sobre o que a aquisiÃÃo da leitura e da escrita promove, sobre como à a vida sem saber ler e escrever, dentre outras representaÃÃes construÃdas. / In our research we investigate the social representations built by five students of a project called SESC Ler, in Fortaleza, about their initial and formal process of learning how to read and write, as well as about some aspects that this process involves, as living without knowing how to read and write. Aiming the approximation of different theoretical fields - Serge Moscoviciâs (2007) theory of Social Representations, the Discourse Analysis of French orientation, and Genetteâs (1982) intertextuality purposes, reviewed by PiÃgay-Gros (1996) - we consider the social representations as discursive practices, because both orientate the action of the persons and both lean on the discursive and collective memories to be built through a constant dialogism among the several texts and discourses which already exist. To analyze them, we delimited the relevant discursive spaces of the studentsâ narratives and we verified the discursive positions they assumed in their enunciations. Then, through a qualitative intertextual and interdiscursive analysis using the copresence relations of allusion and quotation, we identified eleven different aspects which characterize the social representations; from them we identified three social representations and eight characteristics that support them, which were organized according to the notions of central and peripheral systems (ABRIC, 1994), and which verse about the initial and formal process of learning how to read and write as a whole. The students relate about what made them come back to the school, about the motivations of learning how to read and write, about what the acquisition that reading and writing promote, as well as about life without knowing how to read and write and other social representations which were built.