Título: | VOICES OF JUDGMENT AS POINTS OF ARGUMENT IN THE WRITTEN PRODUCTION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: SOCIO-DISCURSIVE AND SOCIAL SEMIOTIC APPROACH | |||||||
Autor: |
ADRIANA RODRIGUES DE ABREU |
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Colaborador(es): |
ADRIANA NOGUEIRA ACCIOLY NOBREGA - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 23/SET/2013 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | |||||
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=22078&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=22078&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.22078 | |||||||
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how High School students use evaluative discourses in their written production, here named as voices of judgment, in order to produce argumentative texts. To reach this goal, we analyze how the evaluative elements of judgment construct points of argument, and therefore the argumentative point of view, elements identified and characterized in this work. The theoretical architecture built in this research is based on the socio-discursive approach to language (Bakhtin, 1990, 2003) that considers discourse as a social construct; the social semiotic perspective proposed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday, 1978, 1994; Halliday and Hasan, 1989; Hasan, 1989), which analyses language in a semantic and functional perspective, and the Appraisal Theory (Martin and White, 2005; Martin, 2000a), which takes into account different uses evaluative language. Since the object of analyses of this research is the argumentative written text, this study is also grounded on studies of genre (Halliday e Hasan, 1989; Martin, 1992, 2000b; Miller, 1994; Bakhtin, 2003) as well as on theories of argumentation (Breton, 2003). Hence, school essay is characterized as a discourse genre, being the result of a social process relevant to the inclusion of students in society, and arguments are seen as a structuring activity of language. Fragments of twelve essays produced by 12th grade students from a public school located in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, were investigated. The analysis follows a qualitative and interpretative methodology (Denzin and Lincoln, 2006), when stances of students on the importance of writing and its relevance for social inclusion were analyzed, considering the evaluative pieces of discourse that underlie their texts. Results indicate that the essays are composed of a great number of stereotypes and beliefs, being constituted by several evaluative elements of human behavior. Furthermore, it was observed that many students
deviate from the required topic and text type, showing low proficiency in the written argumentative genre and indicating a mismatch between secondary school literacy demands and students written production. In contrast, students often use strategies of argumentation, even if not being in the structure of a prototypical written argumentative text. These results lead to a reflection on the importance of working with texts in the classroom, despite possible challenges.
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