Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

5-6

Authors: Luiz Carlos de Assis Rocha

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63-81

Authors: Lorenzo Vitral

This paper presents our proposal for the elaboration of a grammarhandbook of Brazilian Portuguese to be used in high schools.First, we make a historical presentation of the debate about therole of grammar in the process of learning/teaching of BrazilianPortuguese as maternal language. Secondly, we explain how ourgrammar is organized and how one can make good use of it.

107-133

Authors: Maria da Graça Costa Val

This article focuses on grammatical teaching and it claims that adiscursive approach of grammar in classroom is possible and usefulto favor students’ linguistic abilities development. At first, it presentsan overview of theoretical discussion and practical proposes foundin academic environments and in fundamental schools; finally itshows and discusses examples of exercises and activities whichconcerns both grammatical and textual-discursive knowledge oflanguage.

233-253

Authors: Maria Helena de Moura Neves

This article assesses the work with grammar at school according tothe grammatical approach used and according to the insertion ofthat approach in an understanding of the real functioning oflanguage. It is suggested, for instance, that the approach towardword classes should primarily take into account the level in whicheach class operates in the linguistic usage.

7-27

Authors: Carla Viana Coscarelli

Reading is usually seen as an activity without subdivisions. Withpsycholinguistics as a support, we will show in this paper thatreading can be split into many sub processes. Among them we canmention lexical processing, syntactic processing, construction oflocal coherence, construction of thematic coherence andconstruction of external coherence or integrative processing.Understanding these subdivisions of the reading process enablesus to identify the items that interfere positively or negatively in thisprocess, facilitating the reading task or making the reader’s workmore difficult. The information provided can indicate to the teacherthe abilities he should help develop in his students in order tomake them become good readers.

43-60

Authors: Robert de Beaugrande

In retrospect, perhaps the deepest issue in the evolution of textlinguistics was whether the concept of the ‘text’ would be adaptedand restricted to fit the conventional linguistics of the sentence, orwhether it would lead to a novel conception of linguistics itself.The second alternative has evidently won out through theestablishment of the text as a communicative event rather thanmerely a linguistic unit. A fundamental shift of perspective hasensued from formalism toward functionalism, raising the prospectof redesignating the field as a ‘text science’ that restores languageand text to the broader contexts of communication both withinscience and about science.

91-107

Authors: Thais Cristófaro- Silva

Este artigo discute o cancelamento de líquidas em encontros consonantaistautossilábicos no português brasileiro (PB). Esse fenômeno édenominado “redução de encontros consonantais tautossilábicos”. Naprimeira seção eu considero variações que ocorrem em onsets ramificadose procuro identificar motivações para a reducão de encontrosconsonantais tautossilábicos no PB. Nessa seção apresento ainda umarevisão da literatura sobre o tema e discuto a distribuição de encontrosconsonantais tautossilábicos em relação às vogais orais e nasais,ditongos e o acento tônico no PB. Na segunda seção são discutidas asconseqüências da redução de encontros consonantais tautossilábicospara a estrutura sonora do PB e eu procuro a maneira mais adequadapara abordar o fenômeno em análise. Na terceira seção eu sugiro que aredução de encontros consonantais tautossilábicos não pode ser plenamentecompreendida a não ser que a relação entre o léxico e o usodeste seja considerada. Meu objetivo é mostrar que a redução deencontros consonantais tautossilábicos pode ser mais bem analisadacomo um caso de difusão lexical. Eu sugiro que a separação de umitem lexical em duas formas distintas – como conseqüência delexicalização – é evidência para a difusão lexical. Outros casos de variaçãoe mudança sonora no PB corroboram essa proposta.

139-187

Authors: Maria Cândida Drumond Mendes Barros

The aim of this study is to identify the intellectual origins of theprayers in Tupi, published by the French clerics André Thevel andYves d’Evreux in the XVI and XVII centuries.