Linguistic-discursive analysis of scientific divulgation texts in the contexts of Forensic Sciences

Texts about scientific divulgation have as objective to inform about knowledge from the scientific community. To make this specific discourse, made from scientist to scientist, be understood by the general public, it is necessary do some formals and conceptual modifications in the discourse. In this paper, two texts about forensic sciences were analyzed. One text is from the magazine Ciência Hoje and the other one is from the Superinteressante. It was observed, in the Superinteressante, a major concern about the reformulation and explanation of the scientific terms used in the text. In the other hand, occurrences of authority arguments were bigger in the text from Ciência Hoje. These results are consistent with the communicative purpose of each magazine.  

Academic review: a study of textual production of new students in the distance education

This article focuses on the difficulties encountered in text production students of the first phase of an undergraduate distance learning course at the Federal University of Santa Catarina with regard to working with the gender discourse academic review. The research question that drives this study is: In terms of social experiences with written language system, which factors are inferreds in the analysis of problems of adaptation to the visualized gender in textual production reviews in the academic sphere in the course of Portuguese Language distance? The study developed is anchored in theories of literacy based on Street (1984; 2003; 2009), Hamilton (2000), Barton and Hamilton (2004), among other authors who discuss the new studies of literacy through ethnographic perspectives; as well as the theories of genres of Bakhtin and his Circle (2003 [1952/53]). The results show problems (not) appropriate to the genre, both in terms of compositional configuration as in relation to the thematic content and style and signal distinctions between school and family literacy practices and academic literacy practices, demanding methodological resignifications in addressing gender in the academic sphere. The study contributes to the Applied Linguistics area paying attention to the need to undertake a teaching preparation (Halte, 2008) that includes the experiences of students and their weaknesses, so as to focus on them.

SPACE CONFIGURATION IN THE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE OF MIA COUTO

The main objective of this research is to analyze the the spatial configuration in the children's literature of Mia Couto. It is intended to show that the space outlined in these books reveals many aspects of the social and human reality of Mozambique. Therefore, the books O gato e o escuro (“The cat and the dark”) and O beijo da palavrinha (“The kiss of the little word”) will be analyzed from the perspective of the space’s studies – a research method that survey the spatial configuration in the literature. The fictional space created by Mia Couto delineates a cultural landscape and reveals the human and ethical values that we need to teatch to children. As the author's work is marked by a keen aesthetic sense, the space of the world soon becomes the space of the language.