Partículas modais do português brasileiro e o contexto dêitico: referenciação no texto dialogal de díades recém- alfabetizadas escrevendo colaborativamente

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the presence, function and deictic context of Brazilian Portuguese modal particles in the dialogue text of a recently literate dyad. Modal particles are characteristic marks of certain languages, linguistic expressions made up of lexemes present in some utterances, giving them a character of lightness, of validation, determining the intention of the enunciator within the utterance. Our corpus comes from the methodology of collaborative writing in pairs. We used it to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse 10 processes that were collected in 2013 at a public school (Maceió - AL), transcribed from the productions of a pair of elementary school students who wrote in a collaborative situation. This data comes from the School Textualisation Practices Database, belonging to the School Manuscript Laboratory at the Federal University of Alagoas, through which it was possible to identify, quantify and qualify the brazilian portuguese modal particles that appeared in the manuscript produced by the students. The particles found were duly quantified using graphs, charts and tables and were qualified by function, occurrence and deictic context within the dialogue text. As a theoretical anchor, we sought support from Benveniste´s Enunciation Linguistics and Textual Genetics, from Grésillon and subsequently from Doquet-Lacoste,thus seeking to contribute to linguistic studies aimed at research into writing and authorship in the classroom. This study showed through data analysis that the brazilian portuguese modal particles present in the dialogical text point to an internal reference, and without such contextualisation they become empty of meaning, thus approaching the phenomenon of deicticism.