ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVES: A PROPOSAL OF LEARNING TO READ APPLIED TO DESIGN

The purpose of this research is to build reading routes from the analysis of verbal and visual productions developed by undergraduate students. For this goal, learning sequences are created, based in the identified routes so as to try to reach more elaborate comprehension levels. The set of propositions of this research offers the teacher strategies that embody an inter- and trans- disciplinary proposal by relating visual and verbal languages​​, supported by the French-based Semiotics. 

ASPECTOS DA RESPONSIVIDADE NA INTERAÇÃO VERBAL

Este texto procura desenvolver uma reflexão teórica a respeito da responsividade, considerada elemento constitutivo dos processos de trocas verbais efetivados pelos seres humanos em sociedades organizadas. Para tanto, assume-se a perspectiva teórica de linguagem de Bakhtin e seu Círculo, a partir da qual se procura caracterizar a responsividade, conceito que permeia os seus estudos. Como resultado desse processo reflexivo, a partir de exemplos de diálogos, com graduandos, na modalidade escrita, via e-mail, elenca-se uma série de aspectos da responsividade presentes nas proposições bakhtinianas, as quais se organizam em torno de uma premissa maior: a de que o desejo de resposta é o principal elemento motivador da assunção da palavra pelo locutor e propicia, igualmente, o surgimento dos vários elos da cadeia ininterrupta da comunicação verbal, estabelecendo-se a interação.

The verbal agreement of 3rd person plural in Pelotas/RS

the article analyzes the variation in verbal agreement of 3rd person plural based on interviews of 90 informants who make up the VarX – Sociolinguistics Database Variable by Social Class of Pelotas/RS –, stratified according to gender, social class, age: 45 are males and 45 females; 30 of the upper middle class, 30 of the low middle class, and 30 of the low social class; 30 are between 16 and 25 years of age, 30 between 26 and 49 and 30 of the age group over 50 years.We used quantitative methodology based on the Windows interface for Varbrul and on data encryption form. The results show that, in Pelotas, there is variation in verbal agreement of 3rd person plural, but with predominance of the use of the mark, since the presence of verbal endings occurs in 4317 contexts (of a total of 5263), consisting of 82%, and in 945 contexts there are no agreement marks, totaling 18%. We also found, based of the social variables, that there is evidence of acquisition of 3rd person plural agreement, since there is a gradual increase in use of verb agreement marks, whose direction goes from the older to the younger informants, given that the younger have higher rates and relative employment of verbal endings of 3rd person plural.   KEYWORDS: Verb agreement. Pelotas. Linguistic Variation.

High body mass index is not a barrier to physical activity: Analysis of international rugby players' anthropometric data

Recent data indicate that levels of overweight and obesity are increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world. At a population level (and commonly to assess individual health risk), the prevalence of overweight and obesity is calculated using cut-offs of the Body Mass Index (BMI) derived from height and weight. Similarly, the BMI is also used to classify individuals and to provide a notional indication of potential health risk. It is likely that epidemiologic surveys that are reliant on BMI as a measure of adiposity will overestimate the number of individuals in the overweight (and slightly obese) categories. This tendency to misclassify individuals may be more pronounced in athletic populations or groups in which the proportion of more active individuals is higher. This differential is most pronounced in sports where it is advantageous to have a high BMI (but not necessarily high fatness). To illustrate this point we calculated the BMIs of international professional rugby players from the four teams involved in the semi-finals of the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) cut-offs for BMI, approximately 65% of the players were classified as overweight and approximately 25% as obese. These findings demonstrate that a high BMI is commonplace (and a potentially desirable attribute for sport performance) in professional rugby players. An unanswered question is what proportion of the wider population, classified as overweight (or obese) according to the BMI, is misclassified according to both fatness and health risk? It is evident that being overweight should not be an obstacle to a physically active lifestyle. Similarly, a reliance on BMI alone may misclassify a number of individuals who might otherwise have been automatically considered fat and/or unfit.