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Orientador: Renata Maria Facuri Coelho Marchezan / Banca: Maria Célia Mendonça / Banca: Maria Inês Batista Campos / Resumo: Hodiernamente, observa-se, no âmbito educacional, um grande destaque aos vestibulares como meio de ingresso em boas universidades do país. Como consequência disso, ganha força, dentro de colégios, a prática da produção textual, em especial da redação argumentativa. Tendo isso em vista, esta pesquisa objetiva identificar como ocorrem as relações dialógicas entre o conjunto de enunciados - comumente denominado coletânea - componentes da proposta de redação argumentativa e a redação argumentativa elaborada pelo candidato no vestibular aplicado pela Fundação Universitária para o Vestibular (FUVEST) nos anos 2012 e 2013. Para concretizar o objetivo apontado, primeiramente, são discutidos como e por que a proposta de redação argumentativa e a redação argumentativa escolar podem ser consideradas gêneros do discurso. Seguidamente, são analisadas 14 redações oriundas da prova de vestibular supracitada que mais cumpriram os quesitos avaliados pela banca examinadora. Esta pesquisa caminha pela Análise Dialógica do Discurso, tendo, como eixo basilar de fundamentação, as ideias propostas pelo Círculo de Bakhtin, em especial os conceitos relações dialógicas, diálogo, enunciados, gêneros do discurso, esferas de atividade humana, além de um estudo acerca dos processos de citação e seus tipos. São utilizadas, como corpus, duas propostas de redação argumentativa do vestibular FUVEST (2012 e 2013) e 14 redações argumentativas escolares que, segundo a banca examinadora, atingiram as expectativas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Nowadays it's common to observe, especially in the scholar context, a huge emphasis in the vestibular exams, since they are a manner to access great universities around the country. Consequently, the practice of textual production, mainly the argumentative genre, gains prominence within schools. Considering this, our research aims to identify how occur the dialogic relations between the group of utterances (which composes the reading material, named by us as argumentative essay proposition) and the argumentative essays created by the candidates who applied to an undergraduating school by using the vestibular exam organized by the University Foundation for Vestibular (FUVEST), during 2012 and 2013. Firstly, in order to accomplish our objectives, it will be discussed how and why the argumentative essay proposition and the middle school argumentative essay may be considered genres of discourse. Furthermore, it will be analyzed 14 essays collected form the FUVEST vestibular exam. These 14 essays were considered by the examiners as having accomplish totally or almost totally the evaluation criteria. It's important to highlight this research has as basis the Dialogic Discourse Analysis theories, especially the theories proposed by the Bakhtin's Circle, notably the concepts: dialogic relations, dialogue, utterance, genres of discourse, spheres of human activities, as well as a study of the quotations' process. Moreover, our corpus is composed by two FUVEST exam's argumentative essay... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

A prevailing scholarly view holds that John Milton’s monism (his belief that matter and spirit are inseparable) is a reaction to seventeenth-century determinism. My thesis, however, posits that Milton’s monism in fact emerges from his exploration of literary form. Chapter one traces the classical roots of the philosophy and its compatibility with Genesis. It posits the comprehensiveness of monist philosophy and highlights the vitalist (or animate) implications of ancient monist theories for literary form. Spoken or written words, Democritus suggests, correspond to the material building blocks or “elements” of the universe: the construction of literary form is analogous to the creation of the cosmos. Indeed, Lucretius’ letter-atom analogy suggests that the process of creating literary form is essentially identical to the atomic method underlying the composition of other material forms in the universe. Greek atomist thought, the chapter proposes, finds a striking parallel in Jewish mystical beliefs about creation. It is with the letters of the divine name that the Lord was said to have created the universe. I argue that, for Milton, Aristotle is most influential in expressing a vitalist conception of literary form, for in his philosophy, soul generates voice, which manifests itself in writing. Milton acknowledges the association between words and atoms, between letters and primordial substance, and between voice, or breath, and spirit in his monist materialism; after all, in Genesis, God creates by utterance. Examining the relation of vitalism to Aristotelian poetics, I suggest the relevance of the concept to Milton’s hybrid literary forms. Then, analysing the material nature of voice in Milton’s works, I posit in chapter two that Milton’s polemical pamphlets underscore the sense of spirit in writing that we find in the poetry. That literary forms can be perceived to embody soul because they evoke voice is evident also from Milton’s Art of Logic (1672). I suggest in chapter three that Logic is saturated with materialism because the Aristotelian sources on which Milton’s Ramist logic is based express material monism. Milton’s Logic and Areopagitica (1644) provide further evidence of his thinking about the vital potential of literary form through the logical construction of texts, a continued interest, I argue, which ultimately engenders his mature monism. Milton use of dream narratives in Paradise Lost, I propose, suggests that reality varies materially by degrees. The parts that reality comprises become more distinct after the Fall, when Milton’s dream narratives, and his cosmology, changes. Before the Fall, the poet imagines that Earth orbits the sun, and that the sun orbits heaven at the centre of the cosmos, a formation, I explain, that has striking resemblance to modern knowledge of the solar system. With careful attention to the dreams of Paradise Lost, I have determined that monism, for Milton, encompasses the workings of intellect, and in the final chapter, I argue that this principle is central to understanding Paradise Regained. The Son’s method of survival in the wilderness becomes the means by which paradise (the spiritual reality) is regained. Understanding his own nature permits the Son of God physiologically to sustain himself through dreaming; the intellectual achievement alters the material nature of his body so that he is sustained by spiritual food. Monism is at the very heart of Paradise Regained. It is a monist methodology of literary form which enables the poet across his oeuvre truly to represent the nature of reality.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 301-314). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 301-314). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.(Afrikaans))--Universiteit van Pretoria. / Afrikaans text with summaries in English and Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-189). Also available on the Internet via World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.(Afrikaans))--Universiteit van Pretoria. / Afrikaans text with summaries in English and Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-189). Available on the Internet via World Wide Web.

The constructionist theory has emerged as a leading perspective in the field of reading inferences and makes the assumption that readers cannot generate inferences when text is inconsiderate or lacking coherence. The generalization inference has been documented as allowing the reader to condense multiple, consecutive propositions into a singular macroproposition. Research has shown that the genre of a text can affect the perception and the set of processes used by the reader to comprehend text. In the present study, participants read ten short narratives, eight of which contained generalization inference lexical decision tasks with genre and coherence of text manipulated. Participants were shown to be no more likely to draw the generalization inference from incoherent text when primed by genre, but were shown to be capable of drawing the generalization inference from incoherent text. These results do not support the constructionist hypothesis and suggest that further research is needed. / Department of Psychological Science

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-89).