INTERTEXTUALITY AND COHERENCE IN A CHRONICLE OF JOÃO UBALDO RIBEIRO: APPROACHES IN READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss, from an educational point of view, taking as a starting point the analysis of a literary chronicle of an argumentative character in the Portuguese language in its Brazilian variant, the parameters of textuality (BEAUGRANDE; DRESSLER, 1997) as access roads into the text that contribute to the construction of meaning, and the use of some mechanisms of textualization (BRONCKART, 1996, DUARTE, 2003). With few textual organizers or connectors, the coherence (thematic and pragmatic) of the chronicle analyzed (“Questões gramaticais”, by João Ubaldo Ribeiro) is determined by the shape of the text and its thematic unity, which is generated by a critical discourse based on intertextual and intergender marks which appeal, from a pragmatic consideration, to the encyclopedia of the reader. The objective is to contribute, in the field of the Portuguese language teaching in its mode of reading comprehension, to the development of interactive tasks that allow a dynamic and contextualized approach to the text from the alluded perspective, based on the resources available in the electronic media.

Keywords

• coherence
• intertextuality
• reading comprehension
• textualization mechanisms
• tasks