A referenciação de personagens na construção da textualidade em contos etiológicos: um estudo de escritura em ato envolvendo uma díade de recém-alfabetizados

Abstract

This dissertation discusses how newly literate students reference characters in etiological tales, examining the referential processes present in both the oral and written combination of the story. The analysis is based on the corpus of the Escolar Manuscript Laboratory (LAME), from the didactic project “Contos do como e do por que” which was collected in a private school in Maceió in 2012, through videos that record from the oral planning of etiological tales to the writing of school manuscripts (text written on the materiality of paper) by newly literate dyads in the classroom. The methodology adopts a quantitative and qualitative approach, using the assumptions of Text Linguistics and Text Genetics. The results highlight the relevance of collaborative writing in the use of strategies for negotiating conflicts while encouraging a process of reflection on language during the writing process. With regard to the characters' referential chain, the data point to similarities between the anaphoric referencing strategies used in the combination of the story and the manuscript. The results also suggest that the syntactic construction of the sentence is linked to the elements that make up the anaphoric chain, influencing the type of introduction, maintenance and referential resumption that can be used by writers. This is because texts constructed with a single period tend to maintain the cohesive link through conjunctions and pronouns, while texts with more periods reduce the need for cohesion through pronominal forms to maintain internal reference, which justifies greater use of lexical replacement in the written text. . In this way, this research contributes to the understanding of referential processes in the textual production of newly literate students, highlighting the role of double writing in the construction of textuality in etiological tales.