Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liliam de Oliveira Mendes.pdf: 963857 bytes, checksum: f1a292b6e63626ebbf563272f0f821fe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-31 / This work, which takes part of Portuguese Language area, is an empirical research about metaphors reading found in a journalistic chronicle, and has as main purpose to verify what kinds of relations are established between the metaphor and readers expression in the comprehension process. It presents the reading - made by teachers during a reading event - of an Arnaldo Jabor s chronicle, which pressuposts were the indetermination of feelings and reading as a social co-construction process at interactionism. Therefore, the use of verbal protocol in group was detached at data collection. The study focused itself of which kinds of relations are established between the metaphors found in the chronicle and the readers voices trying to make sense. The readers that take part of this research are teachers that work at high school of a public school in the state of São Paulo. The empirical material was collected and analyzed in an ethnographic projection. The results shown that the metaphors reading were constructed into the interaction process with basis in relations established in knowledge acquired previously by readers, through the experience with other sources of knowledge structured in language. Thus, this study presented, by means of co-construction transacted in text meanings, the reading as an active process in which the communicative competence is used for the participants of this research, at the text comprehension / Este trabalho é uma pesquisa empírica sobre a leitura de metáforas contidas em uma crônica jornalística, objetivando verificar quais tipos de relações se estabelecem entre a metáfora e as manifestações dos leitores no processo de interpretação. Esta investigação insere-se na área de Língua Portuguesa. Apresenta a leitura de uma crônica de Arnaldo Jabor, realizada por professores, durante um evento de leitura, tendo por pressupostos a indeterminação dos sentidos e a leitura como um processo de co-construção social no enfoque interacionista. Destaca-se assim, na coleta de dados, o uso do protocolo verbal em grupo. O estudo centrou-se nos tipos de relações que se estabelecem entre as metáforas contidas na crônica e as vozes dos leitores tentando fazer sentido. Os leitores que participaram da pesquisa são professores do ensino médio de uma escola pública do Estado de São Paulo. O material empírico foi coletado e analisado em uma perspectiva etnográfica. Os resultados mostraram que a leitura de metáforas construiu-se no processo de interação com base em relações estabelecidas nos conhecimentos adquiridos anteriormente pelos leitores, por meio da experiência com outras fontes de conhecimento previamente estruturado pela linguagem. Portanto, esta pesquisa apresentou, por meio da co-construção negociada dos sentidos do texto, a leitura como um processo ativo em que a competência comunicativa é utilizada, pelos participantes da pesquisa, na interpretação do texto

Selected South African high school students’ perceptions of stereotypes in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are the center of attention in an attempt to establish or refute the existence of a uniform interpretation in the interpretive community. The textual reader responses were collected by using a questionnaire. The results show that the respondents use stereotypes to understand encounters with literary texts and as tools to connect the content of the text with their own experiences. The stereotypes also provide a framework for the readers to position themselves with or against the text and the depicted characters. Consequently, the female respondents are more inclined to distance themselves from sexist values than the male readers. Next to all the readers condemn racist values and racist language detectable in the text. Overall, the readers distance themselves from negative values and identify themselves with positive values. The results show that readers use a variety of stereotypes as aids to interpret the characters, events, values and structure of society in “A Rose for Emily”.