THE EXPRESSIVENESS ENUNCIATION OF THE ADJECTIVE IN TEXTUAL DISSERTATION-ARGUMENTATIVE GENRE

In this paper, are presented studies of the adjective and its enunciative expressivity in. According to the singular form that Callou and Serra (2003a, 2003b) describe the studies specifically stated on the adjective. This depends on the order which takes over the noun, may submit change of meaning in three ways: the first with the respect to the free position of the adjective with meaning change, the second with the mandatory position on the adjective, and, the third related to the free position of the adjective without a change of meaning. Demonstrating that not all cases can be checked diversity semantics and pragmatics of the adjective in the description. It is made a reflection about the use of enunciative expressions in the adjective use in discursive contexts in order to describe the assumptions of Sales (2006) on the influence of the genre in the order of the adjective to be relevant and, if applicable to this study.

THE SCHOOL TEXTUAL PRODUCTION PROCESS MEDIATED BY LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS WITH FOCUS ON ARGUMENTATION

It is showed in this text, discussion about the textual (re)writing process in activity that was propitiated through the development of a research project applied in a public school of Parana state, whose goal was to develop the argumentative writing production at the 9th year students, of the basic education. The research project focused on the teaching of a scientific paper and the use of conjunctions as constituent elements of argumentation. It was applied strategies grounded on Argumentative Semantics which were concerned with the conjunctions use as argumentative elements and, for the expansion of ideas. After the produced material analysis, it was selected this work’s corpus, which is constituted of the last version of the written text by one student whose production was well qualified. It was verified that the textual genre suggested and the conjunctions usage as argumentation organizer element was considered by the student, at the writing activities. 

NINETEENTH CENTURY BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: LETTERS FROM THE BARONESS OF GUARAÚNA AND THE EMPRESS THEREZA

 1 Doutora em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", campus de Araraquara (1998). Professora Associado A, no Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa. Atua no Mestrado em Linguagem, Identidade e Subjetividade desde 03/2010. 2 Mestranda em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina (2012). Bolsista CAPES. Especialista em Língua, Linguística e Literatura pela Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (2010) e graduada em Letras Português/Inglês pela mesma instituição (2006). As with societies, history and culture, language also evolves, a process which is inherent to it. The Portuguese of Brazil has its own characteristics due to the influence of Indian, African peoples and others who have lived here. This study researched 19th century handwritten letters for the origins of Brazilian Portuguese. The corpus consists of three personal letters collected by the Museu do Tropeiro in Castro. Two of them were written by the Baroness of Guaraúna and one by the Empress Thereza de Bourbon. This textual genre is Revista Línguas & Letras ISSN: 1517-7238 Vol. 13 nº 24 1º Sem. 2012 a valuable source for socio-historical studies because it brings, through the linguistic register, an immeasurable cultural and intellectual legacy. Studying the educated Portuguese Brazilian language, used informally between 1880 and 1893, one is able to notice syntactic phenomena, which are found in forms of treatment and spelling diversity characteristic of the century in which they were written. Our focus was not to exhaust all the possibilities of analysis and observation on the origin of this entire legacy but to contribute towards the studies of the history of Brazilian Portuguese, and in particular, the one from the state of Paraná.

Paraná in the guidebook: a cultural markers analysis

Even nowadays, with the access to information through the internet or even by means of apps on the cellphone, the market of printed tourist guidebooks, as a way of advertising tourist destinations, continues to work. In a global scope, one of the most recognized publishing companies is Lonely Planet, with publications about a great number of destinations, in until 11 languages, commercialized in various parts of the world. One of its theme is Brazil. The titles Brazil (2013), in Portuguese, Brasil (2014) and in the Italian guidebook, Brasile (2014) were selected. The manuals were analyzed in a post-doctorate research entitled, “Analyzes of tourist guidebooks about Brazil in the light of the Translation Studies Based on Corpus”. However, the analyzed chapters are just the ones that make up the South of Brazil, that is, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The aim was to analyze the cultural markers with the highest level of keyness, presented in them and its respective translations in the guidebooks in Portuguese and in Italian. Nevertheless, for this article just the chapters referring to Paraná were selected. The theoretical basis were the Corpus Linguistic (Berber Sardinha, 2004), the Translation Studies Based on Corpus (BAKER, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000; CAMARGO, 2005, 2007a, 2007b), as well as the studies about cultural markers (AUBERT, 1981, 1995, 2006). It was noted that even on the source language corpus there were markers in Portuguese language, such as “Curitiba” and “Iguaçu”, whereas the toponyms are quite frequent in this textual genre.

BAKHTINIAN CONCEPTS IN THE WRITTEN TESTABSTRACT

The study discusses the way the bakhtinian concepts are used and developed in the construction, application, production and assessment in the written test during the university entrance examination. The concepts underlying the written production in that situation are: its purpose, the interlocutors involved, the genre to be observed, the social circulation of that genre, its textual support and the author’s position. Analyses of samples of texts written by candidates demonstrate that the use of those concepts in the instructions for the test allows the production of texts with authorship signs. Those signs show up as a result of the dialogic process in the written production.

ARGUMENTOS E ETHOS DISCURSIVO EM “RICOS E POBRES”

O profissional da área de linguagem deve ter o compromisso de explorar os aspectos relevantes ao gênero textual selecionado para trabalhar em sala de aula junto aos seus alunos, pois se acredita que a exploração destes aspectos é necessária para se compreender os significados discursivos possíveis na relação texto e contexto. Refletindo sobre esta questão é que este artigo centra-se no estudo da crônica Os Ricos e Pobres, escrita por Martha Medeiros e publicada no caderno Donna, do jornal Zero Hora dominical, de dois de julho de dois mil e seis, tendo por objetivo a análise dos argumentos explorados pela escritora e do ethos discursivo, que gradativamente é construído no desenvolvimento da argumentação. A sustentação teórica desta análise está centrada, principalmente, em Reboul (2000) e Amossy (2005), para estabelecer a identificação dos argumentos e do ethos discursivo a partir das escolhas lexicais apresentadas por quem realiza a produção, neste caso, Martha Medeiros, e que se tornam elementos lingüísticos importantes para quem consome, ou seja, os leitores do caderno Donna, especificamente da coluna produzida por Martha. Assim, acredita-se que tal análise seja de substancial valor para que, a partir dela, se torne possível ao profissional de linguagem, estabelecer propostas de trabalho com os alunos, cujos resultados sejam significantes e funcionalmente relevantes em suas vidas, possibilitando-lhes aguçar sua capacidade crítica diante das leituras realizadas.

WORKING WITH THE PROVERB GENRE IN THE CLASSROOM

This paper presents the results of a study in which we discuss the use of proverb genre in teaching Portuguese. To achieve the proposed objective we have developed a literature in which it sought to compile and analyze the conceptualization/characterization of proverbs, as well as the potential of the genre to the acquisition and/or improvement of linguistic and discursive skills. Therefore, it was possible to ensure that the proverb brings substantial teaching of Portuguese language contributions, because it is a genre that has various exploration possibilities. It was observed methodological possibilities for the development of educational activities involving issues related to phonology, morphology, the lexicon, syntax and semantics, and ideological and cultural issues, which can make the Portuguese language lessons more interesting and fruitful , which will provide students with an analysis of linguistic elements used daily in their social context , as well as analysis of ideological / cultural content present in proverbial expressions, expanding the linguistic and discursive student proficiency.

BLOGS EDUCACIONAIS DE LÍNGUA ESPANHOLA: ANÁLISE DE GÊNERO SOB A PERSPECTIVA BAKHTINIANA

The use of new technologies in classroom, including in foreign language learning, is becoming more and more frequent. The researches already show investigations with the use of emails, chats, blogs, hypertexts, facebook in foreign language classroom especially to develop the students’ written ability. However, there is still a lack of studies concerning educational blogs in foreign language as a digital genre. This work aim characterizing educational blog as a genre under Bakhtinian perspective. To achieve these objectives, the methodology used is characterized as exploratory-descriptive with quali-quantitative base whose collected data consist in analysis of seven educational blogs. The data analysis was done using the theoretical assumptions about textual genres under Bakhtinian perspective. The main results indicate that the analyzed blogs have thematic content, composition and style that are characteristical as digital genres. In conclusion of this work, suggestions are made for future researches into the use of blogs in the foreign language classroom.

READER’S ROLE AND THE LITERARY GENRE IN TEXTUAL RECEPTION: TZVETAN TODOROV AND VINCENT JOUVE CONTRIBUITIONS

Regarding the importance the reader takes on in studies about reading and literary genres, this paper presents reflections about the reader’s role in the constitution of the literary genres as esthetics conventions which the writer dialogues, as well as, about the literary genres theory issues, important to literary analysis, and allow to an useful understanding, and consequently, the esthetical experience in reading literary texts. This paper focuses particularly, in a reflection about the reading concepts and esthetical conventions of the fantastic genre, from the theoretical assumptions of Tzvetan Torodov and Vincent Jouve. From reflections developed related to reception theories, about the reading processing and the reader’s contribution in the creation of the fantastic genre, was possible propose an approach and establish analogies between the referential from de Todorov and Jouve Both authors recognize the importance of the reader’s role to the literary text completeness and suggest the text to present features and conventions, as textual strategies of stylistic, linguistic and formal order which conduct the reader to the achievement of the text meanings.

MEMÓRIAS PÓSTUMAS DE BRÁS CUBAS: REPRESENTAÇÕES DO FEMININO SOB INFLUÊNCIA DO MITO DE EVA

O presente trabalho analisa a obra Memórias Póstumas de BrásCubas, de Machado de Assis, explorando as reações do masculino perante a altivez feminina, a partir do mito de Eva. A despeito da conotação negativa que faz o narrador dos caracteres femininos como inteligência e altivez, o aspecto de fracasso masculino não é anulado. O tipo fracassado que aparece na obra tem valor significativo, na medida em que faz emergir o outro: o feminino. Pois, as personagens femininas representadas, guardadas os limites de verossimilhança da época, não assumem o comando político e social, mas possuem a inteligência para defender seus próprios interesses e comandar o homem pela subjetividade. Assim, ao passo que onarrador Brás Cubas acredita dominar a situação, ele passa a ser o iludido.

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.

O GÊNERO POEMA: UM ESTUDO NA PERSPECTIVA BAKHTINIANA

This paper, linked to the Research Project “Linguistic Analysis Contextualized to Practices of Reading and Production of Texts” (UEL), seeks to disseminate a proposal of approaching the speech genre poem, in terms of scientific domain, in the light of bakhtinian concepts, involving vision of ideological sign, aesthetic communication, and speech genres and its dimensions: theme content – object of sense, evaluatively built; compositional structure – elements of structure and meaning; and style – manifestation of linguistic and expressive resources relatively stable of a genre, among others, mobilized by the enunciator (linguistic and enunciation marks). It considers all characteristics are indissolubly related to the context of production. Such a context stabilizes the use of the genre and holds it collectively as long as necessary, ie, society and discourse are organized in genres that, ultimately, are the realization of the living and can be materialized. More specifically, the paper analyzes, in the aspects above mentioned, the poema “O menino que carregava água na peneira”, by Manoel de Barros, in which the author-creator of the poem brings a very particular universe which marks the literary work: childhood, in a kind of craft with the word-image. The poet feels the child’s universe pulsing in his bowels and represents it. In this sense, the study discusses, in pedagogical field, the spread of such a speech genre. It evaluates, as a result, the getting through of the poem in the school  sphere – mainly via textbook. Finally, it points to the possibility of a new attitude regarding the teaching-learning process of the genre.