<p>This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two testimonies. The Human Rights Violations (HRV) hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) allowed testifiers to tell stories of their experiences during apartheid. The selected testimonies refer to the events that led up to the arrest and eventual torture of Faried Muhammad Ferhelst, as told by himself and his mother, Minnie Louisa Ferhelst. Theframeworks used to analyse the testimonies are drawn from the transitivity and genre theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics. A clausal analysis of the transitivity patterns is used to compare the ways in which the testifiers construct their identities and roles when recounting their stories. The transitivity analysis of both testimonies shows that both Mrs Ferhelst and Faried Ferhelst construe themselves as the Affected participant through Material, Mental and Verbal clauses, and construe the police as the Causers, mostly through Material clauses. A genre analysis revealed that both testimonies took the form of narratives, in particular the Recount, a typical genre for relating narratives of personal experience. This research project also explores how the original Afrikaans versions of the testimonies differ from the translated English versions, available online on the TRC website. The Afrikaans versions were transcribed by the researcher from&nbsp / audio-visual records. A transitivity analysis reveals that the interpretation of the Afrikaans testimonies is fairly accurate, with a minimum loss of meaning. Thus in the case of these testimonies, the&nbsp / actual online record in English is an accurate reflection of their stories.</p>

Η γνωσιακή ψυχοθεραπεία είναι ένα είδος θεραπείας που στηρίζεται στην παραδοχή ότι οι σκέψεις των ανθρώπων είναι εκείνες που επηρεάζουν τη συμπεριφορά και τα συναισθήματά τους. Πρόκειται για μια επικοινωνιακή περίσταση με βασικό της εργαλείο το λόγο. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία θελήσαμε να εξετάσουμε διεξοδικά τη χρήση της γλώσσας στο συγκεκριμένο ψυχοθεραπευτικό πλαίσιο. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν η εξέταση των γλωσσικών επιλογών που συντελούνται στο πλαίσιο της γνωσιακής ψυχοθεραπείας και ο βαθμός στον οποίο αυτές οι επιλογές επηρεάζουν τη θεραπευτική σχέση και τη χρήση των θεραπευτικών τεχνικών. Για την επίτευξη αυτού του σκοπού, υιοθετήθηκε η οπτική της συστημικής λειτουργικής γλωσσολογίας, σύμφωνα με την οποία η γλώσσα αποτελεί πόρο νοήματος σε συνάρτηση με το κοινωνικό- πολιτισμικό περιβάλλον. Δόθηκε έμφαση στη διαπροσωπική διάσταση της γλώσσας, επομένως η γνωσιακή ψυχοθεραπεία αντιμετωπίστηκε ως ένα είδος διάδρασης. Το διαπροσωπικό νόημα της γλώσσας είναι εκείνο που μας επιτρέπει να αντιληφθούμε τους ομιλιακούς ρόλους που επιλέγουν οι μετέχοντες στο θεραπευτικό πλαίσιο, τα χαρακτηριστικά τους και τη μεταξύ τους σχέση. Όσον αφορά το μεθοδολογικό πλαίσιο, έγινε ανάλυση λόγου σε αποσπάσματα από γνωσιακές συνεδρίες που αφορούσαν όλα τα στάδια της θεραπείας. Χρησιμοποιήθηκαν δύο μεθοδολογικά εργαλεία: το σύστημα Λειτουργίας του Θεραπευτικού Λόγου (system of Therapeutic Speech) και το σύστημα της Αποτίμησης. Το σύστημα Λειτουργίας του Θεραπευτικού Λόγου προέκυψε από τη σύνθεση των βασικών σημείων δανεισμένων από δύο διαπροσωπικά γλωσσολογικά συστήματα, το διαπροσωπικό σύστημα (Interpersonal System) των Halliday & Hasan (1989) και το σύστημα των Γλωσσικών Λειτουργιών (system of Speech Function) των Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) σε συνδυασμό με την τυπολογία του Labov (1997). Τα αποτελέσματα της ανάλυσης λόγου ανέδειξαν γλωσσικά μοτίβα που διέπουν το θεραπευτικό λόγο γενικά, καθώς και γλωσσικά μοτίβα που αφορούν ειδικά το γνωσιακό ψυχοθεραπευτικό λόγο. Επιπλέον, τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν ότι οι γλωσσικές επιλογές των μετεχόντων φαίνεται να διαμορφώνουν τη μεταξύ τους σχέση και να συμβάλουν στη χρήση των θεραπευτικών τεχνικών. / Cognitive psychotherapy is a type of therapy based on the premise that people's thoughts are those that affect their behavior and feelings. It is a communicative circumstance with discourse as its main tool. In the present thesis we wanted to examine in detail the use of language in that particular psychotherapeutic context. More specifically, the thesis’ goal was the investigation of the language choices that occur in the context of cognitive psychotherapy and the extent to which those choices affect the therapeutic relationship and the use of therapeutic techniques. To achieve this goal, the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics was adopted, according to which language is a resource of meaning in relation to the socio-cultural environment. Emphasis was given at the interpersonal dimension of language therefore cognitive psychotherapy was treated as a kind of interaction. The interpersonal meaning of language is that which allows us to understand the speech roles chosen by participants in the therapeutic context, their characteristics and their interrelationship. Concerning the methodological framework, a discourse analysis of extracts from cognitive sessions, involving all stages of treatment, took place. Two methodological tools were used: the System of Therapeutic Speech and the Appraisal System. The System of Therapeutic Speech resulted from the synthesis of main elements adopted from two linguistic systems, the Interpersonal System of Halliday & Hasan (1989) and the system of Speech Function of Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) in combination with Labov’s typology (1977). The results of discourse analysis revealed linguistic patterns governing the therapeutic discourse in general as well as linguistic patterns specific to the discourse of cognitive psychotherapy. Furthermore, the results showed that the linguistic choices of the participants seem to shape their relationship and contribute to the use of therapeutic techniques.

<p>This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two testimonies. The Human Rights Violations (HRV) hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) allowed testifiers to tell stories of their experiences during apartheid. The selected testimonies refer to the events that led up to the arrest and eventual torture of Faried Muhammad Ferhelst, as told by himself and his mother, Minnie Louisa Ferhelst. Theframeworks used to analyse the testimonies are drawn from the transitivity and genre theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics. A clausal analysis of the transitivity patterns is used to compare the ways in which the testifiers construct their identities and roles when recounting their stories. The transitivity analysis of both testimonies shows that both Mrs Ferhelst and Faried Ferhelst construe themselves as the Affected participant through Material, Mental and Verbal clauses, and construe the police as the Causers, mostly through Material clauses. A genre analysis revealed that both testimonies took the form of narratives, in particular the Recount, a typical genre for relating narratives of personal experience. This research project also explores how the original Afrikaans versions of the testimonies differ from the translated English versions, available online on the TRC website. The Afrikaans versions were transcribed by the researcher from&nbsp / audio-visual records. A transitivity analysis reveals that the interpretation of the Afrikaans testimonies is fairly accurate, with a minimum loss of meaning. Thus in the case of these testimonies, the&nbsp / actual online record in English is an accurate reflection of their stories.</p>

This study brings together two approaches to linguistic variation, Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar and Labovian variation theory, and in doing so brings together a functional interpretation of language and its empirical investigation in its social context. The study reports on an empirical investigation of the concept of text. The investigation proceeds on the basis of a corpus of texts gathered in sociolinguistic interviews with fifty adult speakers of Australian English in Sydney. The total corpus accounted for in terms of text type or genre numbers 420 texts of varying length, 125 of which, produced in response to four narrative questions, are investigated in greater detail in respect both of the types of text they constitute as well as of some of their linguistic realisations. These largely narrative-type texts, which represent between two and three hours of spoken English and total approximately 53000 words, are presented in a second volume analysed in terms of their textual or generic structure as well as their realisation at the level of the clause complex. The study explores in some detail models of register and genre developed within systemic-functional linguistics, adopting a genre model developed by J.R. Martin and others working within his model which foregrounds the notion that all aspects of the system(s) involved are related to one another probabilistically. In order to investigate the concept of text in actual discourse under conditions which permit us to become sufficiently confident of our understanding of it to proceed to generalisations about text and its contextual conditioning in spoken discourse, we turn to Labovian methods of sociolinguistic inquiry, i.e. to quantitative methods or methods of quantifying linguistic choice. The study takes the sociolinguistic interview as pioneered by Labov in his study of phonological variation in New York City and develops it for the purpose of investigating textual variation. The question of methodology constitutes a substantial part of the study, contributing in the process to a much greater understanding of the very phenomenon of text in discourse, for example by addressing itself to the question of the feasibility of operationalising a concept of text in the context of spoken discourse. The narrative-type texts investigated in further detail were found to range on a continuum from most experientially-oriented texts such as procedure and recount at one end to the classic narrative of personal experience and anecdote to the increasingly interpersonally-oriented exemplum and observation, both of which become interpretative of the real world in contrast to the straightforwardly representational slant taken on the same experience by the more experientially-oriented texts. The explanation for the generic variation along this continuum must be sought in a system of generic choice which is essentially cultural. A quantitative analysis of clausal theme and clause complex-type relations was carried out, the latter by means of log-linear analysis, in order to investigate their correlation with generic structure. While it was possible to relate the choice of theme to the particular stages of generic structures, clause complex-type relations are chosen too infrequently to be related to stages and were thus related to genres as a whole. We find that while by and large the choice of theme correlates well with different generic stages, it only discriminates between different genres, i.e. generic structures in toto, for those genres which are maximally different. Similarly, investigating the two choices in the principal systems involved in the organisation of the clause complex, i.e. the choice of taxis (parataxis vs. hypotaxis) and the (grammatically independent) choice of logico-semantic relations (expansion vs. projection), we find that both those choices discriminate better between types more distant on a narrative continuum. The log-linear analysis of clause complex-type relations also permitted the investigation of the social characteristics of speakers. We found that the choice of logico-semantic relations correlates with genre and question, while the choice of taxis correlates with a speaker's sex and his membership of some social group (in addition to genre). Parataxis is favoured by men and by members of the group lowest in the social hierarchy. Age on the other hand is not significant in the choice of taxis at all. In other words, since social factors are clearly shown to be significant in the making of abstract grammatical choices where they cannot be explained in terms of the functional organisation of text, we conclude that social factors must be made part of a model of text in order to fully account for its contextual conditioning. The study demonstrates that an understanding of the linguistic properties of discourse requires empirical study and, conversely, that it is possible to study discourse empirically without relaxing the standards of scientific inquiry.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:43:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 parte1.pdf: 3052797 bytes, checksum: 5da04d0969960baeaa2f87486c8c84e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-08 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research proposes a study of the syntactic- semantic dimensions of the lexical items that, syntactically, exercise a function of subject in journalistic titles. Still it investigates the configuration of verbal constructions, observing its pragmatic- ideological motivations subjacent to the journalistic context. Our investigation stars from the principle that, in the titles sentence type ( SVO- SV), for example Justice limits liberty of the supporters, the position of the subject is occupied by expressions that assume metonymically the paper of controller of the dynamic process expressed by the verb, as in these enunciates there are a kind of configuration of sense of the subject, as its main characteristic prototypical characteristic of agentivity is frequently dissociated. To the realization of the analysis, we constituted a corpus of 120 journalistic news published in two periodic from Pernambuco, through the years 2006, 20007 and 2008 and analyzed the expressions from the left side of the verb (process). To the discussion of the obtained results we proceeded, methodologically, as follows: we presented the occurrences number of the processes, taking into account the frequency of determined kind present in our corpus; we verified the participants actor, beneficiary, experiencer and teller, to verify in which way these participants represent the referred entity in the position of subject in a determined thematic area: politics, economy and urban life and, to finish, we categorized the representation of the first participant ( P1), that, syntactically, expresses the subject, according to Souza ( 2006, p. 165), as nominal syntagmas (SN) of two kinds: the lexical SN, having as a centre a noun, modified or not; the individualized SN ( SNi), subtype of SNL, that that has as a centre a being. To evidence such position, we fundament in the pretext of Systemic- Functional Linguistic of Halliday ( 1985), Halliday & Mathiessen ( 2004), Souza ( 2006) and Furtado da Cunha & Souza ( 2007). We observed that the nominal syntagmas (SNs) that occupy a position of subjects in the journalistic titles accomplish the most varied forms of representativity and that these syntagmas represent semantic-pragmatic behaviours determined by the thematic context. / Esta pesquisa propõe um estudo das dimensões sintático-semânticas dos itens lexicais que, sintaticamente, exercem a função de sujeito em títulos jornalísticos. Ainda investiga a configuração de construções verbais, observando suas motivações pragmático-ideológicas subjacentes ao contexto jornalístico. Nossa investigação parte do princípio de que, nos títulos do tipo oracional (SVO SV), por exemplo, Justiça limita liberdade dos torcedores, a posição de sujeito é ocupada por expressões que assumem metonimicamente o papel de controlador do processo dinâmico expresso pelo verbo, uma vez que nestes enunciados há uma certa reconfiguração de sentido do sujeito, pois sua principal característica prototípica de agentividade é freqüentemente desassociada. Para a realização das análises, constituímos um corpus de 120 títulos de notícias jornalísticas publicados em dois periódicos pernambucanos, ao longo dos anos 2006, 2007 e 2008 e analisamos as expressões ocupantes do lado esquerdo do verbo (processo). Para discussão dos resultados obtidos procedemos, metodologicamente, da seguinte forma: apresentamos o número de ocorrências dos processos, levando em conta a freqüência de determinado tipo presente em nosso corpus; verificamos os participantes ator, beneficiário, experienciador e dizente, a fim de averiguar de que forma esses participantes representam a entidade referida na posição de sujeito em determinada área temática: política, economia e vida urbana e, por fim, categorizamos a representação do primeiro participante (P1) que, sintaticamente, expressa o sujeito, conforme Souza (2006, p. 165), como sintagma nominal (SN) de dois tipos: o SN lexical (SNL), tendo como núcleo um substantivo, modificado ou não; o SN individualizado (SNi), subtipo do SNL, aquele que tem como núcleo um indivíduo. Para evidenciar tal posicionamento, fundamentamo-nos em pressupostos da Lingüística Sistêmico-Funcional de Halliday (1985), Halliday & Mathiessen (2004), Souza (2006) e Furtado da Cunha & Souza (2007). Constatamos que os sintagmas nominais (SNs) que ocupam a posição de sujeito nos títulos jornalísticos cumprem as mais variadas formas de representatividade e que esses sintagmas representam comportamentos semânticopragmáticos determinados pelo contexto temático.

Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur bilder förhöll sig till verbaltexten samt hur bild och text fungerade som stödstrukturer i läromedel för svenska och svenska som andraspråk kurs 1, 2 och 3. I studien, som utgick ifrån det sociokulturella perspektivet, utfördes en kvalitativ analys där en analysmodell sammanställdes utifrån två tidigare modeller för kategorisering av bild-textfunktioner. Läromedlen valdes ut efter aktuell läroplan (Lgy 11). Analysen utgick från att de multimodala resurserna kan betraktas som stödstrukturer och resultatet visade att det förekom olika förhållanden mellan bild och verbaltext i läromedlen Sätt full fart (SVA) och Guldspår i språket (SV). Merparten av bild-text-förhållandena var kompletterande och symmetriska, alltså typer av förhållanden som kan fungera som stödstrukturer vilket underlättar förståelsen. Men det förekom även motstridiga förhållanden vilka kan försvåra förståelsen. Detta belyser vikten av att bilder i läromedel används genomtänkt och att det kan finnas ett behov av metasamtal om stödstrukturerna.

Cirkelmodellen, en del av genrepedagogiken, är en fasindelad undervisningsmodell där systemiskfunktionell lingvistik och ett sociokulturellt perspektiv på lärande tillämpas i ämnesundervisning för att göra elever uppmärksamma på hur språkliga resurser uttrycker mening i olika typer av texter i skolans olika ämnen. Cirkelmodellens inledande fas behandlar ämneskunskapen och de följande uppmärksammar genrens syfte och språkliga resurser. I litteratur om genrepedagogik uttrycks ofta att denna undervisningsmodell utvecklar både språk- och ämneskunskaper hos flerspråkiga elever. Samtidigt skiljer sig litteraturen åt beträffande principer för urval av ämnesinnehåll. Då innehållsurvalsprinciper är en bärande del av ämnesdidaktiken, vars syfte är att undersöka förutsättningar för att utveckla ämneskunnande, vill denna studie undersöka hur litteraturen framställer samhällsämnesdidaktiska principer i förhållande till genrepedagogisk undervisning. Studien har avgränsats till nio metodinriktade handböcker i språk- och kunskapsutvecklande arbetssätt och genrepedagogik, avsedda för lärare. En kvalitativ jämförande textanalys har gjorts med hjälp av en för undersökningen konstruerad analysmodell som kombinerar ämnesdidaktiskt inriktade teorier med genrepedagogikens teoretiska underbyggnad och visar på skillnader mellan olika undersökta framställningar. I undersökningens avslutande del diskuteras vilka pedagogiska konsekvenser dessa skillnader kan tänkas få för språk- och kunskapsutvecklande undervisning.

Este estudo investiga a Matriz de Referência e 117 itens de provas de Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias, do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem), no período compreendido entre 2009 e 2013, a fim de se estabelecerem relações entre os enunciados de comando dos itens e as ações requeridas do participante, focalizando-se especialmente os processos verbais. A leitura do material teórico-metodológico que constitui o Enem revela uma visão sociointeracionista de língua, centrada no desenvolvimento de competências e habilidades que levarão o aluno ao domínio da língua, importante fator de representação e inclusão social. Por extensão, tal concepção permite compreender a prova do Enem como um ato de interação entre o agente público organizador e os participantes do exame. Como principal referencial teórico, elegeu-se a Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004), enfocando-se especialmente a metafunção ideacional do sistema de transitividade, por ser ela a reveladora da experiência e da representação de mundo, sendo capaz, portanto, de expressar os sentidos de aprendizagem linguística e de ação por meio da língua materna/linguagem. Dois objetivos orientaram este estudo. O objetivo específico consistiu em verificar a relação entre os processos verbais mais recorrentes na Matriz e nos itens analisados, a fim de compreender a relação entre o comando do item e a ação de um cidadão letrado, competente e hábil para a produção e recepção de textos em língua materna. Como objetivo geral, espera-se que este estudo possa contribuir para o ensino da Língua Portuguesa, a partir da análise e das reflexões desenvolvidas. Percorreu-se do suporte legal que dá origem ao Enem à configuração do item como um gênero textual para, então, passar-se ao exame do corpus. O exame da Matriz de Referência para a área de Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias e dos itens selecionados apontou a predominância de processos materiais, mentais e relacionais nos enunciados de comando, que, por sua vez, deflagram ações mentais cognitivas nos participantes. Esse resultado indica que dominar a língua para atuar na sociedade com autonomia e competência implica, principalmente, a mobilização interna e intelectual do indivíduo, com base em seus conhecimentos e reflexões. / This study investigates the Matrix of Reference and 117 items of exams regarding Languages, Codes and its Technologies, of the National Secondary Education Exam (Enem) in the period between 2009 and 2013, in order to establish relations between the wordings of command of the items and the actions required from the participants, focusing especially on the verbal processes. The reading of the theoretical-methodological material that constitutes the Enem reveals a socio-interacionist point of view of language, focusing on the development of skills and abilities that will lead the student to the mastery of the language, an important factor of social representation and inclusion. By extension, this concept allows to understand the examination of Enem as an act of interaction between the public agent that organizes it and the participants. As the main theoretical reference, was elected to Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004), with a especial focus on ideational metafunction of the system of transitivity, being in the revealer of experience and worlds representation, being able, therefore, to express the meanings of the mother tongue/language. Two intents have guided this study. The specific intent was to verify the relation between the most recurrent verbal processes in the Matrix and in the analyzed items, in order to understand the connection between the items command and the action of a literate, competent and skilled citizen, for the production and reception of texts in the mother tongue. The general intent, it is hoped that this study will contribute to the teaching of the Portuguese Language, from the developed analysis and reflections. If has covered from the legal support that gives rise to the Enem to the setting of the item as a textual genre to, then, pass to the examination of the corpus. The examination of the Matrix of Reference for the area of Languages, Codes and its Technologies and of the selected items pointed out the predominance of material, mental and relational processes in the wordings of command, which, in turn, trigger cognitive mental actions in the participants. This result indicates that dominate the language to work in society with autonomy and competence implies, mainly, the internal and intellectual mobilization of the individual, based on their knowledge and reflections

Segundo os PCN, o ensino de Inglês deve contribuir para a formação de indivíduos questionadores e autônomos, que sejam capazes de fazer uso da linguagem como prática social. Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar uma proposta para desenvolver o letramento crítico através da leitura (KLEIMAN, 1995; SOARES, 2006), de forma a atender essa necessidade. Para tanto, indico, nesta dissertação, formas de abordar textos multimodais didaticamente, através da Análise Crítica do Discurso (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) usando os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos e as categorias analíticas oferecidas pela Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional. A relevância do estudo de textos com imagens na escola está na possibilidade de trazer para esse ambiente a discussão de como essas semioses expressam diferentes modos de acesso ao conhecimento. Além disso, apesar da existência de trabalhos dedicados à habilidade de leitura em Inglês (RAMOS, 2004; BAMBIRRA, 2007; VIAN JR., 2009) e, por outro lado, de pesquisas acerca da leitura de imagens e ensino (SARDELICH, 2006: OLIVEIRA, 2006), poucos são os trabalhos que contemplam a leitura crítica em língua estrangeira no que diz respeito à integração da linguagem verbal e visual para a produção de sentidos. Para investigar as escolhas linguísticas e imagéticas e sua relação, responsáveis pela mensagem a ser negociada com o leitor, foram estudados dezessete textos, separados em quatro grupos representando quatro gêneros textuais compostos pelo verbal e pelo visual: cinco artigos de revista, três resenhas, cinco tirinhas e quatro anúncios publicitários. Eles foram examinados separadamente através de algumas das seguintes categorias dentro das três metafunções: a ideacional, principalmente pela análise dos Processos (HALLIDAY & MATTHIESSEN, 2004; KRESS & VAN LEEUWEN, 2006) e da Representação dos Atores Sociais (VAN LEEUWEN, 1997 e 2008); a interpessoal, pela Valoração (MARTIN e WHITE, 2005) e as instâncias de Contato, Distância Social e Atitude no visual (KRESS & VAN LEEUWEN, 2006); a textual, somente na imagem, quanto à Saliência, ao Valor Informacional e à Moldura (KRESS & VAN LEEUWEN, 2006). A partir da descrição e discussão dos resultados das análises de cada gênero, proponho algumas atividades para exemplificar a aplicação da LSF em contexto escolar. A construção dos exercícios baseou-se principalmente no artigo de Ramos (2004) sobre a implementação de gêneros em sala de aula. Assim, o trabalho com os corpora se dividiu em três momentos, usando cada gênero de uma vez: 1) descrição do gênero em seu contexto situacional e considerações sobre o contexto cultural; 2) análise do corpus aplicando a LSF e 3) exemplificação de atividades a partir da análise. Os resultados indicam que verbal e visual tendem a se complementar nos gêneros estudados e os ferramentais teóricos utilizados se mostraram como um generoso ponto de partida para o desenvolvimento de atividades de leitura crítica / According to the PCN, the teaching of English should contribute to the formation of inquisitive and autonomous individuals, who should be able to make use of language as social practice. This work aims at presenting a proposal to develop critical literacy through reading (KLEIMAN, 1995; SOARES, 2006) in order to fulfill this need. To reach such goal, I indicate forms to approach multimodal texts didactically through Critical Discourse Analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) by using the theoretical-analytical framework and the categories offered by Systemic Functional Linguistics. The relevance of studying texts with images at school is the possibility to bring to this environment the discussion of how the two semioses express different ways to access knowledge. Besides, although much has been researched about teaching reading in English (RAMOS, 2004; BAMBIRRA, 2007; VIAN JR., 2009) and, on the other hand, on how to teach reading images (SARDELICH, 2006: OLIVEIRA, 2006), there are few works that encompass critical reading in foreign languages integrating the verbal and the visual aspects in the production of meanings. To investigate the linguistic and visual choices and their relationship, which is responsible for the messages to be negotiated with the reader, seventeen texts were studied, which were divided into four groups of multimodal genres: five magazine articles, three movie reviews, five comic strips and four print advertisements. They have been examined separately through some of the following categories within the three metafunctions: ideational, mainly through the analysis of Processes (HALLIDAY & MATTHIESSEN, 2004; KRESS & VAN LEEUWEN, 2006) and the Representation of Social Actors (VAN LEEUWEN, 1997 e 2008); interpersonal, by the Appraisal Theory (MARTIN e WHITE, 2005) and the visual instances of Contact, Social Distance and Attitude (KRESS & VAN LEEUWEN, 2006); textual, only in the images, regarding Salience, Informational Value and Framing (KRESS & VAN LEEUWEN, 2006). From the description and discussion of the results of the analysis in each genre, I suggest some activities to exemplify how to implement the principles of LSF in the school context. The construction of activities was based on Ramos article (2004) about the use of genres at school. Therefore, the work with the corpora was divided into three moments, using each genre at a time: 1) description of the genre in its situational context and some comments on its cultural context; 2) analysis of the corpus applying the LSF and 3) exemplification of activities made from the analysis. Results have pointed to the complementation between visual and verbal elements in the construction of meanings and the theoretical-analytical framework used has proven to be a generous starting point for the development of critical reading activities

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar as características da linguagem no Twitter, focalizando (i) seu propósito comunicativo, (ii) seus participantes discursivos e (iii) suas relações interpessoais. Por acreditar que a linguagem é um recurso sistemático e que somente através dela expressamos significados em determinados contextos, encontramos na Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (LSF) uma base teórica que se encaixa à pesquisa. Para Halliday(1994), a linguística é o estudo de como as pessoas negociam sentido através do uso da linguagem. Assim, encontramos no Twitter, um corpus diversificado que reforça ainda mais a teoria da LSF, quando afirma sermos nós, falantes da língua, os únicos responsáveis por nossas escolhas lexicais, tendo consciência de como e onde, contextualmente falando, podemos aplicar em uma atividade linguística em que estivermos engajados. O material de pesquisa foi constituído mediante a coleta inicial de 671 comentários postados no Twitter em 2010. Dados obtidos a partir da análise desta coleta confirmam o argumento de Crystal (2011), de que a expressão de opinião é o principal propósito comunicativo das mensagens postadas no microblogging. Assim, após recortes no corpus para coleta exclusivamente de opiniões, 201 tuítes resultantes de duas coletas realizadas em datas e situações diferentes foram analisados: uma, após notícia de agressão a uma professora; a segunda, momentos antes e durante a Copa Mundial de 2010. Os resultados apontam diferenças entre as amostras, principalmente em função de aspectos do contexto de situação: pois embora o tom seja de indignação nas amostras com tuítes opinativos, apenas na amostra futebol há tentativa de se orientar a ação do outro. Quanto às relações interpessoais, foram identificadas marcas de interação face a face nas duas amostras, mas apenas na amostra futebol identificou-se uso de linguagem de baixo calão. Finalmente, em relação às características gerais do Twitter, observa-se o uso de linguagem reduzida na forma de caracteres emotivos ou de abreviações, o uso de interjeições e pontos de exclamação. Observou-se ainda o uso recorrente de léxico valorativo, de ironia e de perguntas retóricas para expressão de indignação, mas estes traços parecem ser afetados por aspectos do contexto de situação, mais do que por características do Twitter / The aim of this research is to investigate the characteristics of language on Twitter, focusing on (i) its communicative purpose, (ii) its discursive participants and (iii) its interpersonal relations. In the belief that language is a systematic resource for the production of meaning, we found in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) a theoretical foundation for the research. Halliday (1994) argues that linguistics is the study of how people exchange meanings through language. Thus, we find in Twitter a varied corpus which further reinforces the theory of SFL, when it states that we, language speakers, are the only ones responsible for our lexical choices, knowing how and where, contextually speaking, we can apply a linguistic activity we are engaged. The research material is made up of the compilation of 671 comments posted on Twitter in 2010. Data obtained from the analysis of this compilation confirms the argument by Crystal (2011) that the expression of opinion is the main communicative purpose of tweets posted on the microblogging service. Thus, after selecting only tweets which express exclusively opinion, we ended up with 201 tweets resulting from two surveys, carried out at different points in time and in different social situations: one, after the news about an incident of aggression against a teacher; the second, moments before and during the World Cup 2010. The results point to differences between the samples, mainly due to the discursive topic. Although a tone of indignation characterizes both samples, only in the soccer sample is there an attempt at guiding the actions of other people. Still within the domain of interpersonal relationships, the use of features that characterize face to face interaction is present in both samples, but only in the soccer sample does one notice the use of swear words. Finally, regarding the overall characteristics of Twitter, the following language features were identified: the use of reduced language, in the form of emoticons or abbreviations; the use of interjections and exclamations; the use of evaluative language, irony and rhetorical questions for the expression of indignation, but the latter three features seem to be affected by aspects of the context of situation, rather than by characteristics of Twitter