GENESIS OF CHARACTER SPEAKING ON TALES ETIOLOGIC INVENTED BY TWO STUDENTS NEWLY LITERATE: THE GAME BETWEEN ORAL AND WRITTEN

Abstract

This work seeks to describe the occurrences of orally formulated reported speech (RS), during the production of etiological tales invented by a dyad of recently literate students. The analyzed corpus was filmed and collected in real classroom situations. The teacher asked her 7-year-old students, grouped in pairs, to produce a single text. We selected 10 scripture processes and their manuscripts produced by the dyad Caio and Igor. The analysis frame will focus on the types of RS in a set of 10 manuscripts of this student’s dyad and shall illustrate the genesis of the RS in a writing process from initial formulation to their textualization. In the theoretical framework of Textual Genetics and Enunciation Linguistics, this study will consider the procedural dimension of act while writing, looking at the role of each of the students during the constitution of the RS. We will acknowledge that the high occurrence of oral RS (113) compared to the written RS (29) seems to be related to the complexity of the graphic and enunciative forms of their representation through writing, given the loss of their enunciation possibilities.

Keywords

• Collaborative writing
• Textual genetics
• Reported speech