Grammar and text: verbal inflection in teaching from the discursive perspective

The description of inflection in grammar compendiums and textbooks is often disconnected from the students' reality and from the text itself. Generally, outdated tenses that are unfamiliar to students are addressed as if they were part of the students' everyday language (BASSO; PIRES DE OL...

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Autores: Vivas, Vítor de Moura, Morais, Margareth Andrade
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Recursos:Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Linguística
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/488
Acesso em linha:https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/488
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Morfologia
Texto
Ensino
Flexão
Verbo
Morphology
Text
Teaching
Inflection
Verb
Descrição
Resumo:The description of inflection in grammar compendiums and textbooks is often disconnected from the students' reality and from the text itself. Generally, outdated tenses that are unfamiliar to students are addressed as if they were part of the students' everyday language (BASSO; PIRES DE OLIVEIRA, 2012; FRANCHI, 2006). In addition to the exaggerated focus on the analysis of verb tense-mode (MT) and number-person (NP) markers that are unknown to students, there is a lack of emphasis on meaning, no scientific criteria to define this morphological process, and no connection between inflectional strategies and text production/reading (VIVAS et al., 2019; VIVAS; GONÇALVES, 2020). Therefore, this article aims to contribute to reflections on the teaching of inflection, considering not only the morphological status of this process but also its textual/discursive role, in light of assumptions from Text Linguistics (KOCH; ELIAS, 2016). We analyze an editorial from a newspaper and internet memes, relating the inflectional strategies used to the effect of meaning generated by these forms in the texts. Thus, in addition to addressing new uses of inflection, we propose teaching strategies aimed at promoting linguistic analysis connected to the reading and production of meaning, as advocated by official documents on teaching the Portuguese language.