Estudo dos sinais de pontuação em material didático de língua portuguesa do Ensino Fundamental II: uma análise crítica

Abstract

Generally, the reading of the indications about the use of punctuation marks in didactic material reveals inaccurate orientations, floating and, in some cases, a bit subjective in respect of their applications. The aim of this work is the investigation of the contents and the treatments given to the teaching of these marks in didactic materials of Portuguese Language. The research is based on theories that discuss the nature and the manifestation of the language as a unity of sense; although the first aim of the study does not consist of an analysis according a theory or linguistics perspectives – the reason of the study is the nature and the linguistics functions of the punctuation marks –, the analysis support themselves in the principles of the conceptions of the enunciative and discursive linguistics, according to which, the meanings of an enunciation justify the forms and the resources used on the construction of an communicative event of written language. To attend the proposal of study, a methodological cut was made, what evidenced the problem of the teaching of those resources in a didactic material in Elementary School (6th to 9th grade) adopted in a school from the municipal network in the city of Maceió. From this delimitation, it was worked using the hypothesis that the teaching of these marks is stuck to the traditional concepts, that don’t reflect the dynamicity of the resource in the construction of the meanings of a text, and to methodologies which made incongruous the criteria of applicability with perception of linguistics functions of those resources, which are, in fact, much more related with the social practices of reading and writing of the student than the idea of marks of pause and rhythm of reading. As a final result the research brings a little proposal of categorization of the (now) marks of punctuation that can help teachers and students in the comprehension of the nature and the linguistics functions that so said resource of writing plays on textual organization and in its discursive elaboration.