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Authors: Éric Charles Brun

This article presents the results of a comparative longitudinal research carried out in six classes of French public schools from 2012 to 2015 (5-7 years old) in order to observe the evolution of children’s alterity-ethnocentric tendencies through their speeches and those of their teachers as part of the implementation of an interventionist and collaborative project of Languages Awakening (experimental groups) and without any specific project (control groups). The final objective was to verify the real impact that a Languages Awakening Approach based on intercultural and attitudinal skills might have on foreign language learning.

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Authors: Marcos Bispo dos Santos

In this essay, we aim to present the necessary elements for a transdisciplinary approach of the study of argumentation in order to apply it to the teaching-learning process of argumentative texts reading and production. Assuming that mono-disciplinary perspectives in Linguistics are limited to deal with the complexity argumentation, due to its commitment to the production of basic knowledge in which prevails knowledge fragmentation, it is postulated that such a task could only be successfully carried out if Linguistics is conceived as a critical applied science. Thus, it is argued that the formal structure of argumentation must be deduced from the language practices that engender the textual genres imbued, directly or indirectly, with the aim of persuading. Two paths are suggested. The first one involves the construction of a theoretical and methodological apparatus, from the appropriation of theoretical constructs of ancient rhetoric, the new rhetoric and linguistic theories as pragmatic, textual linguistics, argumentative semantics, theories of genres, analysis speech, enunciation theories, conversation analysis, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, language philosophy and others, according to the objectives of the teaching-learning process. The second path consists in the construction of a theoretical methodological device capable of substantiating practices of analysis and production of argumentative texts that are conceived as extremely complex objects.

70-90

Authors: Patrício Nunes Barreiros; Wiliana Coelho de Souza

In this article, we present the results of a pedagogical intervention for the teaching of Portuguese Language, elaborated with the objective of searching for alternatives for the insertion of the literature produced by writers from Juazeiro-BA, in the literacy activities of a 9th grade class at Elementary School Helena Celestino Gomes located in Juazeiro, Bahia. As a result of the intervention students produced a digital library in which a list of writers from Juazeiro, their biographies and a selection of texts made by the students were made available. In order to carry out the activities that resulted in the production of this library, the students carried out researches at the Municipal Public Library and in personal collections. They also interviewed writers. The activities were performed in groups, valuing students' collaboration and participation.

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Authors: Adelino Pereira dos Santos

In this text, we analyze the Portuguese term jararaca and the images on the cover and in the main article of Veja magazine of March 16th, 2016. Based on theoretical and methodological support of French Discourse Analysis, we consider these term and images as part of a media event, containing political discourse and meaning displacement. We start the essay with the analysis of a former Brazilian President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva statement in the context of Lava Jato Operation in order to discuss the political, legal and media tension that occurred in Brazil in March, 2016. Meaning displacement refers to the fact that the Portuguese term jararaca was repeated and caused effects of contrary meaning to what the former president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva desired, taken in equivalent words or in other semiosis, under the aegis of another discursive formation. This discursive process demarcates the political struggle that was established in the country in the first half of 2016, resumed in this text by the metaphor of a soccer game, as thought by Pêcheux (2002). Courtine ( 2006, p. 82) highlights the role of memory in the gambling operations that enables the creation and dispersal of political discourse: "If the interdiscourse therefore organizes the recurrence and the regrouping of formulations, also acts as a cavity , rupture or displacement." Furthermore, he adds that the memory is also made of forgetfulness because the interdiscourse "is the oblivion of statements producer. Memory and forgetfulness cannot be separated in the enunciation of the political discourse."

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Authors: Palmira Heine; Flágila Marinho

This paper aims to discuss the silence and its operating modes in the Portuguese Language textbook of Dialogue Collection. Based on the French Discourse Analysis. Results showed that access to multiple meanings is forbidden and students are only allowed to copy and transcribe explicit parts of the text. The text interpretation process proposed in the analyzed questions requires a passive subject who just repeats the explicit meanings of the text.