"Eu pensei que ia sair daqui falando ingl��s": um estudo sist��mico-funcional sobre pap��is sociais atribu��dos por alunos de um curso de Letras/Ingl��s

Research in the area of teacher training in English as a Foreign Language (CELANI, 2003, 2004, 2010; PAIVA, 2000, 2003, 2005; VIEIRA-ABRAH��O, 2010) articulates the complexity of beginning teachers classroom contexts aligned with teaching language as a social and professional practice of the teacher in training. To better understand this relationship, the present study is based on a corpus of transcribed interviews and questionnaires applied to 28 undergraduate students majoring in Letters/English emphasis, at a public university located in the interior of the Western Amazon region, soliciting their opinions about the reforms made in the curriculum of this Major. Interviews and questionnaires were used as data collection instruments to trace a profile of the students organized in Group 1, with freshmen and sophomore undergraduates who are following the 2009 curriculum, and Group 2, with junior and senior undergraduates who are following the 2006 curriculum. The objectives are to identify, to characterize and to analyze the types of pronouns, roles and social actors represented in the opinions of these students in relation to their teacher training curriculum. The theoretical support focuses on the challenge of historical and contemporary routes from English teachers initial education programs (MAGALH��ES; LIBERALLI, 2009; PAVAN; SILVA, 2010; ALVAREZ, 2010; VIANA, 2011; PAVAN, 2012). Our theoretical perspective is based on the Systemic Functional Grammar of Halliday (1994), Halliday and Hasan (1989), Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), Eggins (1994; 2004) and Thompson (2004). We focus on the concept of the Interpersonal meaning, specifically regarding the roles articulated in the studies by Delu (1991), Thompson and Thetela (1995), and in the Portuguese language such as Ramos (1997), Silva (2006) and Cabral (2009). Moreover, we ascribe van Leeuwen s (1997; 2003) theory of Representation of Social Actors as a theoretical framework in order to identify the sociological aspect of social actors represented in the students discourse. Within this scenario, the analysis unfolds on three levels: grammatical (pronouns), semantic (roles), and discursive (social actors). For the analysis of interpersonal realizations present in the students opinions, we use the computational program WordSmith Tools (SCOTT, 2010) and its applications Wordlist and Concord to quantify the occurrences of the pronouns I, You and They, which characterize the roles and social actors of the corpus. The results show that the students assigned the following roles to themselves: (i) apprentice to express their initial process of English language learning; (ii) freshman to reveal their choice of Major in Letters/English emphasis; (iii) future teacher to relate their expectations towards a practicing professional. To assign the roles to professors in the major, the students used the metaphor of modality (I think) to indicate the relationship of teacher training, while they are in the role of a student and as a future teacher. From these evidences the representation of the students as social actors emerges in roles such as: (i) active roles; (ii) passive roles and (iii) personalized roles. The social actors represented in the opinions of the students reflect the inclusion of these roles assigned to the actions expressed about their experiences and expectations derived from their teacher training classroom

Conectores sequenciadores em artigos de opini��o escritos por vestibulandos: uma quest��o de marca����o lingu��stia com implica����es para o ensino

Coordena����o de Aperfei��oamento de Pessoal de N��vel Superior

A Transposi����o Did��dica dos G��neros do dom��nio do discursivo publicit��rios nos livros did��ticos

Advertising text has been a subject of many investigations, because of its multimodal universe. Embodied by a linguistic and discursive materiality laying on scene persuasion, argumentation and power imagery of multissemiotics elements, the advertising text acts as an instrument of power, creating and destroying, promising and denying (CARVALHO, 2007). Advertising not only invites us to act for it, but directs us to look at it. It was under this moving look - of charm and interrogations - that discussions raised in this research were born. Investigations are directed to the school environment, in special, for the discursive advertising domain in Portuguese Language Textbook. It is from this environment that was born our research whose main objective is to analyze how does the didactic transposition of textual genres, described by Marcuschi (2008) as belonging to the "advertising" discourse domain (focusing on advertising genre) in didactic books teaching Portuguese Language before and after the advent of the PCN. Textbooks taken as reference for the study are historically situated in the 90s of the twentieth century and 10 century. Such books refer to elected 7th and 8th grades, currently corresponding to the 8th and 9th grades of elementary school. The choice is justified by the fact that in these Textbook teaching series the presence of advertising domain is recurrent and "didactized". In addition, we are also concerned in analyzing books that circulated around us and our regional reality. Hence, we elected books that were used by two public high schools: Municipal School Clementina Ana da Concei����o in Ja��an�� city in the Rio Grande do Norte state, State School for Elementary and High school Carlota Barreira in Areia city, Para��ba state. In our research the following categories of analysis were highlighted: (1) presence of advertising in DB, (2) fluctuation terminology: concepts and classifications; (3) The complexity of concepts facilitation, (4) what they propagate, and from which nature are the explored advertisements. From our analysis, we observe how the treatment of textual "advertising" genres have been inserted into Textbooks, and how occurs, in general, their didactic transposition. Focusing on the issue of fluctuating terminology, we noted the difficulty in drawing boundaries between the genres of advertising domain in the Textbooks. However, this also would result in the complexity - in the field of scientific knowledge - of delimiting genres of the same domain. To accomplish our studies, it was required a thorough and systematic dialogue with theories regarding the concept of "Didactic Transposition", due to the theoretical Chevallard Yves (1991), research on the textual genres - Bezerra (2005), Marcuschi (2008), Bazerman (2005), Swales (2004), among others - and studies involving the field of "Advertising" - Sandmann (2002), Carvalho (2007) and others

Pr��ticas de letramento digital de professores em forma����o: demandas, saberes e impactos

Over the last decades, the digital inclusion public policies have significantly invested in the purchase of hardwares and softwares in order to offer technology to the Brazilian public teaching institutions, specifically computers and broadband Internet. However, the teachers education to handle these artefacts is put away, even though there is some demand from the information society. With that, this dissertation chooses as an object of study the digital literacy practices performed by 38 (thirty-eight) teachers in initial and continuous education by means of the extension course Literacies and technologies: portuguese language teaching and cyberculture demands. In this direction, we aim at investigating the digital literacy practices of developing teachers in three specific moments: before, while and after this extension action with the intent to (i) delineate the digital literacy practices performed by the collaborators before the formative action; (ii) to narrate the literacy events made possible by the extension course; (iii) to investigate the contributions of the education course to the collaborators teaching practice. We sought theoretical contributions in the literacy studies (BAYNHAM, 1995; KLEIMAN, 1995; HAMILTON; BARTON; IVANIC, 2000), specifically when it comes to digital literacy (COPE, KALANTZIS, 2000; BUZATO, 2001, 2007, 2009; SNYDER, 2002, 2008; LANKSHEAR & KNOBEL, 2002, 2008) and teacher education (PERRENOUD, 2000; SILVA, 2001). Methodologically, this virtual ethnography study (KOZINETS, 1997; HINE, 2000) is inserted into the field of Applied Linguistics and adopts a quali-quantitative research approach (NUNAN, 1992; D��RNYEI, 2006). The data analysis permitted to evidentiate that (i) before the course, the digital literacy practices focused on the personal and academic dimensions of their realities at the expense of the professional dimension; (ii) during the extension action, the teachers collaboratively took part in the hybrid study sessions, which had a pedagogical focus on the use of ICTs, accomplishing the use of digital literacy practices - unknown before that; (iii) after the course, the attitude of the collaborator teachers concerning the use of ICTs on their regular professional basis had changed, once those teachers started to effectively make use of them, promoting social visibility to what was produced in the school. We also observed that teachers in initial education acted as more experienced peers in collaborative learning process, offering support scaffolding (VYGOTSKY, 1978; BRUNER, 1985) to teachers in continuous education. This occurred because of the undergraduates actualize digital literacy practices were more sophisticated, besides the fact being integrate generation Y (PRENSKY, 2001)

Se inicia ora����o com pronome cl��tico? Atitudes lingu��sticas, na escola, em rela����o aos padr��es brasileiros de coloca����o pronominal

Focusing on the empirical assessment issue, proposed by Language change theory (cf. cf. WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2006; LABOV, [1972] 2008), this research assists to clarifying Portuguese teacher s attitudes in Natal- RN, regarding (a) to proclisis in three specific contexts: in the beginning of a simple/compound sentence (V1), after the subjects (SV), and proclisis after the secondary verb in complex verbal structures (V1V2); (b) to students who use such patterns in usage. Specific contexts were gathered thanks to their representing of the standard variety, as many studies have proven (Martins, 2012; Schei, 2003; Biazzoli, 2010, 2012). The research aims at: (i) verifying by means of a classroom assessment test, whether Portuguese teachers correct proclisis on referred contexts; (ii) identifying, via attitudinal tests what actions teachers take regarding to the usage of standards above mentioned, as well as students as users of those. Twenty Portuguese teachers, picked at random out of different of public schools in Natal-RN, responded to a classroom assessment test in addition to other two attitudinal ones. Results achieved point to a recurring high proclisis correction index of 50% in simple/compound sentences, even though such variety has been implemented to pronominal usage standards in Brazilian Portuguese. This setting of usage was generally assessed negatively, having no commonality between this assessment and the neutral one used by students. Unlike previous setting, the proclisis after subject did not receive any correction of the twenty teachers, what proves coherence with the positive evaluation both the varieties and the students attained. As for the second verb of complex verbal structures, proclisis correction went negative on presenting single results, despite their proximity, with correction indexes of 20% (infinite structures), 10% (present progressive structures) and 25% (participle structures). The assessment on these contexts of proclisis ranged between positive and neutral, also valid for the one students utilized. It means that proclisis in the beginning of simple/compound sentences are yet seemingly spotted in writing school scenario, much likely due to the negative evaluation, opposite to students . Later to subjects and earlier to secondary verbs in structures, proclisis appears to be acknowledged in writing school scenarios, which reflects on teachers assessment as compared to students who use proclisis in these contexts; being in general either positive or neutral

A leitura e o leitor presumido nas avalia����es oficiais

Este estudio se refiere a una investigaci��n a cerca de la concepci��n de la lectura que subyace en la Matriz de Referencia de la Prueba Brasil, y, mediante las an��lisis del modelo 2009, entender lo que el lector se supone que responder en las preguntas de esta prueba. El estudio tiene como objetivo satisfacer se presume lector general para responder a las preguntas de prueba de Brasil y el mapa de la concepci��n de la lectura que subyace en la matriz de referencia tal prueba. Los objetivos espec��ficos apuntan a examinar los temas de Prueba Brasil, identificando qu�� descriptores se materializan en el mismo, que son los m��s recurrentes. El estudio tiene como fundamentos los estudios bakhtinianos a cerca de los di��logos del linguaje (Bakhtin, 2003, 2008; Voloch��nov/Bakhtin, 1993) y la concepci��n de la lectura defendida por Geraldi (2007), Larossa (2001) y DeCerteau (1994). La investigaci��n ��s caracterizada como cualitativo-interpretativo, con enfoque socio-hist��rico, y se encuentra dentro del campo de la Ling����stica Aplicada, que en las ��ltimas d��cadas ha demostrado contribuciones para la ense��anza de lenguas y formaci��n docente. Para hacer el an��lisis de las pruebas, inicialmente construido una tabla (Tabla 1), que contiene los seis macrot��picos Matrix lengua portuguesa en la que est��bamos repartiendo los descriptores presentes en las cuestiones de prueba referenciada relacion��ndolos con sus temas. Tras analizar la cuesti��n, con el fin de identificar al presunto lector a responder a estas preguntas. Mediante an��lisis de la Matriz de Referencia de la Prueba Brasil, entendemos que ella est�� de acuerdo con los Par��metros Curriculares de la Lengua Portuguesa. As��, la concepci��n que subyace en la lectura es que la lectura es una actividad que depende del proceso individual, pero que ��s parte de un contexto social e involucra a habilidades relacionadas con la comprensi��n y producci��n de sentido. Mediante la observaci��n de la prueba, afirmamos qu�� el lector con la capacidad de responder a las preguntas es lo que desarrolla actitudes favorables a cerda de la lectura. A saber: (i) reconocen ampliamente las palabras, (ii) identifican los objetivos y funciones de la lectura, en reconocimiento de la funci��n de apoyo de g��nero y el contexto del texto, (iii) predice el contenido de los textos a se lee a la luz de su apoyo, su g��nero y su contexto; (iv) plantea hip��tesis sobre el contenido del texto que se lee, (v) es capaz de buscar ideas textual e intertextual. Es decir, hace inferencias, aumentando la comprensi��n, la asociaci��n de diversos elementos presentes en el texto y que son parte de sus propias experi��ncias personales, (vi) construye la comprensi��n global del texto le��do por la unificaci��n de la informaci��n expl��cita e impl��cita, (vii) tiene la capacidad de evaluar la lectura de forma ��tica y afectiva, o de hacer extrapolaciones coerentes sin escapar de la tem��tica del texto. Por ��ltimo, podemos decir que las implicaciones pedag��gicas de este trabajo para mi actividad profesional es de gran importancia, ya que desde la detecci��n de lo que se requiere de los estudiantes y, en consecuencia, un nuevo enfoque para la ense��anza de la lengua materna como podemos reflexionar sobre eso y encontrar maneras de mejorar nuestro desempe��o. Tanto nuestro entrenador como nuestros compa��eros. Dejando a un nivel puramente descriptivo de los problemas de acci��n conjunta m��s eficaz, entendiendo que la ense��anza de lectura tiene un car��cter complejo. En este sentido, tenemos que ser menos intuitivo y m��s reflexiva. Nos gustar��a hacer hincapi�� en que tenemos la intenci��n de socializar esta investigaci��n con nuestros compa��eros, ya que entendemos que es un material que puede contribuir a un nuevo aprendizaje para la pr��ctica de los profesores que se inclinan. Adem��s indic�� que la principal contribuci��n de este trabajo es nuestra mirada en el proceso de la lectura en el aula, la comprensi��n de que el estudiante de ofertas diarias con textos localizados, derechos de autor, hist��rico y representativo de las diferentes interacciones en el mundo. Por lo tanto, es el momento de ser gestado las pr��cticas de lectura hacia una educaci��n m��s significativa

A tessitura da mem��ria em o vendedor de passados de Jos�� Eduardo Agualusa

In the study of African literature in Portuguese language, the theme importance of memory is done by contact those literary works have with the context in which they operate. This study aims to reflect how memory as social element becomes an agent of the composition of literary structure in the O Vendedor de Passados (2004), by Jos�� Eduardo Agualusa. Therefore, we have as reference the critical method developed by Antonio Candido (1976), regarding the critical dialectic, in order to understand how such a throwback acts in the structuring of the romance in a relationship with both structural and thematic elements. Firstly, it presents a panoramic reading the Angolan literary scene in the post-independence, relating this context with the route of writing of Jos�� Eduardo Agualusa. Then it performs the analysis of the relationships between narratives categories - narrator, characters, space, time - and the memorial element, keeping in mind that these categories would be constructed in dialogue with the memory. Lastly, there is the reflection on the dynamics between fiction and reality apprehended in novelistic discourse in which a seller of past figures in an analysis that takes place from the skeptical look on this work. As a theoretical approach, we highlight mainly readings: Hampat��-B�� (2010), Laura Padilla (2007), Tania Mac��do (2008) for the observation of the specific African context quickened in the novel; Tedesco (2004), Halbwachs (2006), Le Goff (2003) regarding the conceptualisation of memory; and Landesman (2006), Krause (2004), Gai (1997) in cutting the skeptical outlook with which the romance dialogues

A organiza����o da intera����o professor-aluno em sala de aula: turnos e o par pergunta-resposta

Este trabalho tem como foco principal a intera����o em sala de aula, especificando aspectos da organiza����o lingu��stico-discursiva, na produ����o conjunta da fala da professora e dos alunos, materializada em turnos, ressaltando o par pergunta-resposta na aula de Língua Portuguesa. Para alcan��armos esse objetivo, inspiramo-nos em alguns trabalhos acerca da organiza����o da intera����o que adotaram a perspectiva dos estudos interacionais e a abordagem etnogr��fica, a fim de explicitar o conhecimento nos espa��os de ensino e aprendizagem. Entre eles, citamos as pesquisas de Galv��o (1996, 2004) e de Mat��ncio (2001). Nessa dire����o, descrevemos o processo de intera����o em sala de aula em uma escola p��blica, analisando e interpretando as a����es de linguagem realizadas pela professora e pelos alunos. Teoricamente, embasamo-nos, principalmente, na An��lise da Conversa����o, ancorando-nos no estudo pioneiro de Sacks, Schegloff e Jefferson ([1974] 2003); nos postulados de Marcuschi ([1986] 2007a); nas pesquisas de Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006), dentre outros. Explicitamos uma tipologia de perguntas e respostas em sala de aula, quanto �� sua forma e fun����o, conforme os postulados te��ricos de Stubbs (1987), Ara��jo (2003), F��vero, Andrade e Aquino (2006), Silva (2006) e Koshik (2010). Analisamos a organiza����o da tomada de turno, seguida de uma investiga����o sobre perguntas e respostas no discurso desenvolvido face a face. Na tentativa de compreendermos o cotidiano dos envolvidos no cen��rio de sala de aula, adotamos a abordagem etnogr��fica e o m��todo indutivo, nas perspectivas de Andr�� (2010) e Chizzotti (2006). Os dados foram gerados atrav��s de pesquisa de campo, por meio de grava����es (em ��udio) de aulas de Língua Portuguesa, posteriormente transcritas e transformadas no corpus de pesquisa. As an��lises demonstraram que a intera����o entre professora e alunos organizou-se em trocas de turnos, na maioria das vezes, controladas pela professora, evidenciando-se uma rela����o de assimetria entre os participantes. Esses turnos concretizados, geralmente, no par adjacente pergunta-resposta revelaram como a constru����o do conhecimento se realiza em sala de aula. Por fim, observamos que a intera����o em sala de aula de Língua Portuguesa �� organizada por aspectos sociais e pedag��gicos intrinsecamente imbricados

A transitividade na conversa����o: uma abordagem funcional centrada no uso

This work investigates the phenomenon of transitivity in the conversation. We examined the behavior of complements in Brazilian Portuguese speech, and then compared the results with previous researches in the English language by Thompson and Hopper (2001) and in the Spanish language by V��zques (2004). In Brazil, there are no researches that treat this phenomenon in the discursive conversation, for that reason it justifies and reveals the importance of this research that aims to answer questions related to the transitivity of ordinary conversations. Thus, we describe, explain and analize the transitivity based on concrete linguistic data, provided by native speakers of Portuguese language, specifically, spontaneous talk of people from Natal-RN. We have used as theoretical assumptions the Functional Linguistics usage-based (LFCU), which gathers academics of North-American Functional Linguistics, inspired by Chafe (1979), Hopper and Thompson (1980), Thompson and Hopper (2001), Giv��n (2001), Bybee (2010), Traugott (2009, 2011), among others, as well as Cognitive Linguistics, presented by Langacker (1987), Taylor (1995), Tomasello (1998) and Goldberg(1995), among others. This data consists in conversations extracted from the corpus Banco Conversacional de Natal (FURTADO DA CUNHA). The results obtained from this work confirm the assertions defined by prior conducted studies on the transitivity in the conversation. The research showed that these three idioms, Spanish, Portuguese and English, despite the differences, they present a uniform behavior regarding their transitivity in the conversation. We intend, by this work, to contribute, in some way, to the comprehension of the focused linguistic phenomenon, likewise to build a finer scenario around of the transitivity in the Brasilian Portuguese

Conectores sequenciadores e e a�� em contos e narrativas de experi��ncia pessoal escritos por alunos de ensino fundamental: uma abordagem sociofuncionalista

In this dissertation, based on two theoretical frameworks, American functionalism and variationist sociolinguistics, I take as subject the sequence connectors E and A��, which has the grammatical function of indicating retroactive-propeller sequenciation of information. I analyze the variable use of these connectors in texts written by students from two public schools in the city of Natal, RN, attending at the time of data collection (the year 2012), two distinct levels of basic education: the sixth and the ninth year. The students who contributed to this research wrote, as part of their activities in the classroom, texts of two narrative genres: narrative of personal experience (non-fictional) and short story (fictional). In addition, these students and their Portuguese teachers answered a test of linguistic attitude in which they gave their opinions regarding the appropriateness of the use of connectors E and A�� in contexts of speech and writing marked by distinct degrees of formality. The results obtained by means of quantitative analysis showed different tendencies of linguistic, social and stylistic distribution of connectors E and A�� in the narrative texts written by the students. I related these results to the action of two principles: the principle of persistence, linked to the process of change by grammaticalization, and the principle of stylistic markedness. Besides, I took into account the answers provided by students and teachers to the test of linguistic attitude for refine the interpretation of the results

A aula de portugu��s no ensino m��dio: o ensino que se deseja, o ensino que se faz

Settled within the realm of a problematization towards teaching and learning the Portuguese language, this study aims to investigate the way how the Portuguese Language discipline is dealt with in Secondary School. We propose specifically to analyze the orientations of the official documents concerning the educator practice, examining the way the PCNEM proposal is approached in the didactic book, identifying the treatment given to language questions, analyzing the way the teacher uses the didactic book and verifying the relations between the official approach and the pedagogical practice. The analysis takes into account the several discourses concerning school literacy, considering the various political-educational instances which institutionalize the teaching of the mother tongue - where we locate the teaching that is wanted . In what teachers and students say in their activities and concerning them - the realm of the teaching that is performed - we presuppose that there are signs of the principles - or conceptions - that orientate what they understand by language, teaching and learning. Such evidences are considered within the interrelation of the enunciative places where this literacy is promoted: the public policies concerning education - focusing the language questions - the academic researches about those questions, the educator formation and capacitation and the very school practices in the complexity of their discoursive inter-subjectivity. The principles - or conceptions - are pursued in what is said (or not) about what is done (or not) in the classroom when dealing with the Portuguese Language. The corpus is made up of oral and written texts produced in Portuguese classes in the Secondary School at a public school in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Situated in the realm of Applied Linguistics, the research is conducted in a qualitative and interpretative perspective, following the ethnography of communication procedures and the contributions of the Functional Linguistics. In the observations, language conceptions were discerned, among others, besides beliefs and representations where the theoretical and practical aspects, professional roles, expectations and uncertainties were diluted.

O aspecto polif��nico d os Lus��adas

A study about the polyphonic aspect of The Lusiads. An epic poem in Portuguese Language written by Lu��s de Cam��es, that narrates the adventure of the journey of Vasco da Gama in the discoverer of new shipping lanes for the ��ndias. Secondarily, tells the historics battles engaged during the process of foundation and consolidation of the Portuguese Empire. The object of the study are the diverse speeches that compose the poem s narration, aiming at to the possible aesthetic relation of the epic poetry of Cam��es with the novelistic prose developed in the modernity, starting with D. Quijote and consacrating it at polyphonic novels written by Dostoi��vski. The sdudy focuses the singularity of Cam��es lies in the elaboration of a narrative structurally epic, but at the same time contains several deviating speeches. Such speeches emphasize the multiple planes and multiple voices (characteristics of novelistic prose) without, however, prejudice the interlinking logical-formal epos, resulting in the monological finish conventional of the epic gender. This feature characterizes The Lusiads as monological literary work, but also shows dialogism and plurilinguism, essentials to the polyphonic phenomenon. Another prominent aspect of the poetry of Cam��es is the relative procedure to the expressiveness of the characters. They are, in the majority, rhetorical creations, which assume, in the speech, human or myhtological characteristics. Stratagem that permits to the poet to emit a multiple faces of vision of the facts told. The analysis of the speeches supports-itself entirely in the polyphonic theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, shall be cited, accessory, viewpoints of others theoretical, as long if it is judged compatible with the theory adopted

Constru����es com t��pico marcado em cartas pessoais brasileiras dos s��culos XVIII, XIX E XX

This dissertation is a research on the marked topic construction (CT) in Brazilian personal letters from eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The goal of our research is to verify if CT are present in the writing of Brazilians born in the centuries in question. Our research focus is based on the assumptions of generative theory (CHOMSKY 1981; 1986), which states that grammar is internalized in the mind / brain of the writers, with the emphasis on studies of grammatical change, as pointed texts by Paix��o de Sousa (2004), Carneiro (2005); Galves, Namiuti and Paix��o de Sousa (2006) and Martins (2009). Our corpus was extracted from Projeto Para a Hist��ria do Portugu��s Brasileiro (PHPB) and Cartas Brasileiras colet��nea de fontes para o estudo do portugu��s. We selected forty-six correspondents who should be inserted into the two criteria set out in this research: to be Brazilian and be born in the centuries mentioned above, so that we could find legitimate topic constructions of PB. This work is based on researches by Pontes (1987), Mateus et al. (2003), Araujo (2006, 2009), Berlinck, Duarte and Oliveira (2009), which actively support us in the study of this linguistic phenomenon in Portuguese. The results show that the marked topic construction in our corpus appear on the writing of Brazilians since the second half of the eighteenth century, while the typical constructions in Brazilian Portuguese locative topic, subject topic and copy topic - are already reflected in the I-language of the writers born in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth century

Exerc��cio resistido no cardiopata: revis��o sistem��tica

INTRODU����O: A perda de massa muscular secund��ria �� idade e �� inatividade f��sica �� clinicamente relevante na popula����o card��aca; contudo, a prescri����o do exerc��cio resistido din��mico para esses pacientes apresenta-se inconclusiva na literatura. OBJETIVOS: Reunir informa����es e apresentar as principais diretrizes relacionadas �� prescri����o de exerc��cios resistidos em cardiopatas. MATERIAIS E M��TODOS: Foi realizada busca sistem��tica de literatura, a partir das bases de dados LILACS, SciELO e MEDLINE, utilizando os seguintes descritores na língua portuguesa: for��a muscular, exerc��cio isom��trico, esfor��o f��sico, cardiopatia e coronariopatia, e seus correspondentes na língua inglesa (muscle strength, isometric exercise, physical effort, heart disease e artery coronary disease), os quais foram pesquisados separadamente e em cruzamentos, sendo considerados para esta revis��o apenas artigos publicados entre 2005 e 2010. RESULTADOS E DISCUSS��O: de um total de 806 artigos foram selecionados 22 para integrar a revis��o, sendo 14 estudos classificados como artigos originais, 2 artigos de atualiza����o da literatura e 6 artigos de revis��o, al��m do cap��tulo 8 do livro intitulado Diretrizes do ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) para os testes de esfor��o e sua prescri����o, publicado em 2007. CONCLUS��O: O exerc��cio resistido, independente da variada metodologia utilizada na prescri����o dos componentes espec��ficos do treinamento, mostrou-se eficiente para aumentar a for��a muscular de membros superiores e inferiores em cardiopatas e sua aplica����o pode ser considerada segura para esses pacientes, desde que prescrito corretamente.

Representa����es discursivas de Ficar e Namorar em textos de vestibulandos e pr��-vestibulandos

This doctoral thesis investigate the way vestibulandos and pr��-vestibulandos construct their discursive representations of Ficar and Namorar in their textual production. At the same time, aims to discuss its implications for the ATD and for the teaching and learning of textual production in the context of Portuguese Language classes. Its theoretical framework is inspired mainly by three sources: textual linguistics, the textual analysis of discourses (ADAM, 2008), as well as by frames semantics (FILLMORE, 2006; FELTES, 2007). The methodology is based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches (VIANNA et al., 2008). The data is composed of 168 empirical texts written by the vestibulandos of PSV/2005 da UFRN, Natal, RN, and by secondary school students who attended Escola Estadual Juscelino Kubitschek (EEJK), Ass��, in the 2008 school year. The results indicate different categories of discursive representations of Ficar and Namorar , such as designation of referents, prediction, aspectualization, spatial-temporal circunstances , and metaphor, which reveal the influence of factors such as: the encyclopedic knowledge, the culture, as well as the cognitive components related to textual production. These results point out to the necessity of a teaching practice which enables the interaction among students, the discussion of current themes, as well as the student involvement with different textual genres, mainly the work with textual production in the classroom, so that it enables the students do acquire the textual production strategies. Thus, the overall goal is the (re)construction of their discursive representations, so that they can cope with new contexts of communicative interaction.