Banca de DEFESA: HERYZÂNYA ALVES RAMALHO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : HERYZÂNYA ALVES RAMALHO
DATA : 09/12/2016
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: setor 2, bloco A, sala 3
TÍTULO:

ASPECTS OF TRANSITIVITY IN TEXTS BY STUDENT OF ENGLISH: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL STUDY

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Keywords: Transitivity; Lexicogrammatical choices; Discussions; Systemic Functional Linguistics

PÁGINAS: 121
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Lingüística Aplicada
RESUMO:

This qualiquantitative study aims analyze the lexicogrammatical choices made in written texts of the genre Discussion, produced by nine students from a language institute at a federal university in the northeast o Brazil. The texts were collected from one Level 4 group and a Conversation group at two differnet occasions during the semester of 2015.2 and submitted to a qualitative analysis using the system of transitivity proposed from the Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective (HALLIDAY, 1994; EGGINS, 1994; HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014). The qualitative analysis was performed using the tool, Wordsmith Tools 5.0 (SCOTT, 2010) to identify and quantiy the processes and participants. Finally, the results show that the process most frequently used in the Level IV group were  is/are, like and have, while the processes most frequently used in the Conversation group were is/are, think, do and have. In the first group, the process like suggests that the students conceive of the issues treated as questions of taste, while in the second group, the process think, reveals the interpretation of the themes as a question of personal belief. With regard to the participants, those that occured with the greatest frequency in the Level IV group were people, weekend, I  and we, while we, waste, problem, garbage, you and women were the most frequently ocurring in the Conversation group. The recurring use of I in the first group shows the students' strategy of positioning themselves as authors intent on expressing their opinion. On the other hand, the second group, the consistent use of you evidences a strategy for calling attention to the reader directly. Moreover, it was found that five of the texts analyzed did not conform to the criteria for the genre Discussion. This shows the importance of a transitive analysis for teachers, since the identification of the participants and processes are useful feedback for students, whether in their rewriting or the production of new texts.  

 

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 3654056 - JENNIFER SARAH COOPER
Interno - 1666189 - JANAINA WEISSHEIMER
Externo à Instituição - ORLANDO VIAN JUNIOR - UNIFESP