英文作文教學在英語學習上是不可或缺的一環，而實際上在台灣，英文作文教學仍是透過分析文法和句型來進行的，但這樣的方式忽略了英文寫作能夠成功的主要關鍵——連貫性。由於連貫性的晦澀難解，教師與學生皆會認為在教授和學習寫出有連貫性的文章是很複雜的。本文藉由教導學生如何於寫作時運用連繫功能詞(cohesive devices)和主題推進(thematic progression)兩種策略來探究作文中的連貫性，以研究其增進高中生英文寫作表現的可能性。本研究在不影響正常教學進度的前提下進行，研究者的39位臺北市高二學生首先接受如何分析課本文章連貫性的指導，並接著應用和檢視連繫功能詞以及主題推進於他們的寫作中。其中有兩位低成就者進一步地被挑選出來，藉由寫作會談(writing conference)以瞭解受試者在寫作時，如何利用以上兩種連貫性的策略於其英文寫作中；同時也透過訪談和日記撰寫的方式，來探討學生的學習連貫性策略的歷程。 由相關的量化和質性資料可看出，本研究的結果顯示受試者在作文整體表現與作文連貫性上的分數明顯偏高；他們也被證明能夠和其他研究中的高成就者一般，運用相同的連繫功能詞(指稱、連接與重述)和主題推進(線性推進與主題連續推進)種類。在這歷時五個月的研究中，受試者也在連繫功能詞與主題推進的協助下，培養出更注意作文內容以及進行適當修改的能力。此外，也由於受試者對於學習連繫功能詞與主題推進抱持著正面的態度，本研究建議應結合連繫功能詞和主題推進，並將其融入台灣現存的正規作文教學之中，藉著分析作文中的連繫功能詞與主題推進，協助學生理解抽象的連貫性進而使作文表現更進步。 / As an indispensable element in English learning, writing instruction in Taiwan actually has been given through the analysis of grammar and sentence patterns. This however ignores another primary key to successful writing—coherence. Due to its obscurity, teachers and students both find it complicated to teach and acquire the ability to organize a written text logically and coherently. The current study investigated the possibility to improve the high school students’ writing by instructing them how to apply the coherence strategies to their writing—cohesive devices (CD) and thematic progression (TP). In this study, with the teaching schedule unaffected, the researcher’s 39 second-graders in one Taipei senior high school were first taught how to analyze the coherence of the reading passages in the textbooks. Then they were required to apply and examine CD and TP when writing. Two low achievers of these students were further selected to investigate their writing development by examining their written texts with CD and TP applied in writing conferences, having interviews with the researcher and keeping journals between classes and writing conferences. Concluded from the quantitative and qualitative data collected, the results revealed that the two low-proficiency students were able to get high grades in the holistic writing performance and coherence of writing. They were meanwhile found to be able to apply the same categories of CD (reference, conjunction and reiteration) and types of TP (simple linear TP type and TP with a constant theme) as the ones used by the high-proficiency learners in previous studies. During the five-month study, the participants also cultivated the ability to focus more on content level and to revise properly in their writing with the help of CD and TP. Besides, since the participants held positive attitudes toward the learning of CD and TP, the researcher recommends that the combination of CD and TP should be integrated into the writing instruction in current normal English writing class in Taiwan to help students comprehend the abstract coherence and to improve their writing by analyzing CD and TP in the written texts.

This thesis focuses on the comparison of two short stories by Angela Carter with the fairy tale on which they are based. It attempts to discern to what extent the author preserved the structure of the fairy tale, as viewed from a linguistic point of view, in her short stories. The thesis also suggests an interpretation of the motivation and effect of the divergences of the structure of the short stories from that of the fairy tale. The three texts are analysed from three points of view: thematic progressions, discourse subjects and cohesive chains, and cohesive ties. Attention is payed first to the description of the individual texts, and then to the comparison of the three texts. The comparison puts emphasis on the distinction between the shorts stories on one hand and the fairy tale on the other hand. The comparison shows that the structure of the fairy tale is to a large extent retained in the short stories, as they share characteristics on all the three levels of analysis. The short stories were found to differ from the fairy tale in two main respects, connected to each other, which influence the differences in their structure: the age of the intended reader, and the context and setting of the story.

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本篇論文藉由探討主題推進類型 (thematic progression patterns)與凝結關係 (cohesive ties) 在高中英文教科書課文的呈現以及在英文大學入學考試試題 (綜合測驗，文意選填，篇章結構) 上的應用，來提倡篇章結構的閱讀方法；希望在英文閱讀方面能有啟發的功效。首先，高中英文教科書中敘述文和說明文類型的文章被挑選出來作分析。為了解釋文章的主題發展，功能語法觀點 (Functional Sentence Perspective) 的語言學家Daneš提出四個主題推進類型，分別為Type 1: Simple Linear TP，Type 2: TP with a continuous (constant) theme，Type 3: TP with derived T’s，Type 4: Exposition of a Split Rheme。Cloran另外建議兩個主題推進類型Type 5: Theme > Rheme 和Type 6: Rheme > Rheme。這六種主題推進類型再加上由Halliday and Hasan所提出的五種凝結關係 (cohesive ties, i.e. reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion) 被用來分析上述的文章並且應用在英文大學入學考試試題的解題。研究發現除了上述六種預設的主題推進類型之外，第七種類型被歸為Referential Type，涉及指稱詞 this和that 的使用。其他的發現敘述如下：在高中英文教科書文章分析方面，Type 1和Type 2出現的頻率最多，第二多是Type 5 and Type 6；Referential Type排名出現頻率的第三名，而Type 4少見，Type 3最罕見.。另外，在英文大學入學考試試題的應用方面，結果亦大致符合上述。至於凝結關係 (cohesive ties) 的頻率，指稱詞 (reference)，尤其是人稱代名詞出現最多次，字彙 (lexicon) 次之，然而大部份都是相同字 (same word or repetition) 的一再重複出現；其他字彙的呈現，如同義詞 (synonym)、反義詞 (antonym)、搭配詞 (collocation)、統領詞 (superordinate) 等稍嫌不足。 / Because little attention has been paid to the explicit teaching of text structure in local senior high schools, this present study analyzes the reading texts to explore how students are exposed to expositive and narrative text types and how the text is structured. Reading texts are selected from textbooks for senior high school students and then theme categories, thematic progression types and cohesive devices are analyzed. Combined Daneš’s theory with Cloran’s suggestion, the following six types of thematic progression (TP) are identified: Type 1, Rheme>Theme pattern (> means ‘followed by’); Type 2, Theme>Theme pattern; Type 3, Split Theme; Type 4, Split Rheme; Type 5, Theme>Rheme pattern; and Type 6, Rheme>Rheme pattern. Besides, five cohesive ties (i.e. reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion) proposed by Halliday and Hasan are identified as clue to trace the progression. Next, evidence is found to decode gapped passages in Integrative Test (綜合測驗, i.e. Cloze Test), Semantic Choice (文意選填), and Discourse Structure (篇章結構). Besides the presupposed six progression patterns mentioned above, one more type is found and categorized as Referential Type. The progression of Referential Type involves the use of cohesive device this or that. The findings are presented as follows: In the analysis of reading texts in EFL textbooks, thematic progression of Type 1 R>T and Type 2 T>T predominates the frequency of occurrence, while thematic progression of Type 5 T>R and Type 6 R>R follows behind, and Referential Type ranks third in terms of frequency, followed by Type 4 Split R outnumbering Type 3 Split T. Furthermore, while applying to the analysis of test passages, the outcome of progression types is roughly correspondent with what is mentioned above. As for cohesive ties, reference predominates the frequency of occurrence, followed by lexicon. Of all the cohesive devices, items of personal reference are found to appear most frequently, and then the second most are items of the same word. Through the exploration and analysis of thematic progression and cohesive devices, it is hoped that students’ awareness of textual organization will be enhanced and thus help activate efficient reading.

Ce travail porte sur les relations entre les propositions du texte et les macro-propositions telles qu’elles ont été définies par van Dijk et Kintsch. L’étude a été conduite sur un corpus de textes issus d’une émission radiophonique interactive. Une première partie du travail a été consacrée à la recherche d’un lien entre l’organisation informationnelle des propositions et l’organisation séquentielle du texte. Les liens décrits par Fries et Martin à propos de textes écrits n’ont pas été retrouvés dans les textes oraux du corpus. Dans une seconde partie nous avons étudié la formation de macro-propositions par généralisation. Une analyse des lexicalisations des macro-propositions a montré que la généralisation se faisait sur une base conceptuelle et non lexicale et que les macro-règles décrites par van Dijk et Kintsch ne rendaient pas compte de la formation de la totalité des macro-propositions générées lors de la compréhension. / This study examines the relations between textual propositions and macro-propositions as defined by van Dijk and Kintsch. The corpus used consisted of texts taken from a BBC phone in programme. In the first part of the study a link was sought between the structure of the text and the information structure of the messages. The patterns identified by Fries and Martin in written texts however could not be found in the oral texts of the corpus. The second part of the research focused on macro-propositions deriving from generalisation. An analysis of the lexicalisation of the concepts of these macro-propositions showed that generalisation was made on a conceptual basis as opposed to a lexical one and that the generalisation macro-rule defined by van Dijk and Kintsch fails to account for all the macro-propositions generated during comprehension.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar a progressão textual e a estrutura temática em resenhas produzidas por alunos no Ensino Superior, a partir dos pressupostos teórico da Linguística Sistêmico-funcional (HALLIDAY, 1978; HALLIDAY e MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014; MARTIN e ROSE, 2007; ROSE e MARTIN, 2012) aliados à Linguística Textual, a partir dos estudos de referenciação, numa perspectiva sociointeracionista (MONDADA, 2001; MONDADA e DUBOIS, 2003; MARCUSCHI, 1983 e 2008; KOCH et al.,2005; KOCH e ELIAS, 2010; KOCH, 2014; CAVALCANTE, 2011, 2012 e 2013; CAVALCANTE et al., 2014; e CIULLA, 2008). O que motivou este estudo foram as dificuldades enfrentadas por alunos, ao produzirem textos que exijam um rigor acadêmico, e o interesse por entender como o estudo dos processos de organização temática e referencial podem subsidiar o trabalho com a escrita acadêmica. Para tanto, os dados foram analisados a partir da metafunção textual, considerando os quatro estratos contextuais que envolvem o texto: o contexto de cultura e sua realização em gêneros, o contexto de situação por meio das variáveis de registro de campo, relações e modo, o estrato semântico-discursivo por meio da análise dos sistemas discursivos de identificação e periodicidade, e dos processos de referenciação, a fim de observar como os alunos constroem a progressão textual e as funções textual-discursivas mais recorrentes na composição do gênero resenha; e por fim, o estrato lexicogramatical analisado por meio da identificação da estrutura temática e estrutura da informação. Trata-se de um estudo de cunho qualitativo-interpretativo Os sujeitos de pesquisa foram alunos da Universidade Estadual do Rio grande do Sul (UERGS), frequentando o primeiro semestre em nível de graduação. O corpus é constituído por 10 (dez) textos do gênero resenha. Os resultados mostram que os padrões de estrutura temática estão diretamente relacionados à composição dos gêneros e ao conhecimento que os alunos possuem em relação à lexicogramática, aos aspectos semântico-discursivos e estruturais do texto. A análise do estrato discursivo-semântico permitiu olhar para a metafunção textual e entender como se dá o processo de progressão textual, a partir dos processos de progressão temática e progressão referencial. Pelos tipos de referências e estrutura temática presentes nos textos, pode-se concluir que os alunos têm conhecimento destas estratégias de construção textual, no entanto é evidente a necessidade de tornar este conhecimento explícito, de modo que suas produções evoluam em termos de qualidades discursivas. Por fim, como contribuição desta tese, espera-se despertar o interesse para a temática abordada, bem como oferecer subsídios teóricos e práticos para o planejamento de propostas de intervenção no contexto acadêmico, constituindo-se em uma importante ferramenta para o trabalho com a escrita e análise textual/discursiva no Ensino Superior. / The present thesis has as a general objective analyze the textual progression and thematic structure in reviews produced by students in Higher Education, based on the theoretical assumptions of Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1978; HALLIDAY and MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014; MARTIN and ROSE , 2007; ROSE and MARTIN, 2012) allied to Textual Linguistics, supported by the referential studies, in a socio-interactionist perspective. (MONDADA, 2001; MONDADA and DUBOIS, 2003; MARCUSCHI, 1983 and 2008; KOCH et al.,2005; KOCH and ELIAS, 2010; KOCH, 2014; CAVALCANTE, 2011, 2012 and 2013; CAVALCANTE et al., 2014; and CIULLA, 2008). What motivated this study were the difficulties faced by students, when they produced texts with academic rigor demand, and the interest to understand how the study of the processes of referential and thematic organization and can support the work with academic writing. For this, the data were analyzed from the textual metafunction, considering four contextual strata that involve the text: the context of culture and its realization in genres, the context of situation across the variables of field, tenor and mode, the semantic-discursive stratum through the analysis of the discursive systems of identification and periodicity, and of the processes of reference, in order to observe how the students build textual progression the textual discourse functions, which are more used in the composition of review genre; and finally, the lexicogrammatical stratum analyzed through the identification of the thematic structure and information structure. This is a qualitative-interpretative study The investigation subjects were students of the Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS), attending the first semester at undergraduate level. The corpus is constituted by 10 (ten) texts of the review genre. The results show that the patterns of thematic structure are directly related to the composition of the genres and to the knowledge that the students have in relation to the lexicogrammar, to the semantic-discursive and structural aspects of the text. The analysis of the discursive-semantic stratum allowed us to look at the textual metafunction and to understand how the process of textual progression occurs, from the processes of thematic progression and referential progression. For the types of references and thematic structure present in the texts, it can be concluded that the students are aware of these strategies of textual construction, however it is evident the necessity to become this knowledge explicit, in such a way that their productions develop in terms of discursive qualities. In conclusion, as a contribution of this thesis, it is hoped to awaken the interest for the approached topic, as well as to offer theoretical and practical subsidies for the planning of intervention proposals in the academic context, constituting an important tool for working with writing and textual/discursive analysis in Higher Education.

La thèse propose une étude des procédures de cohésion nominale et d’organisation discursive à l’écrit en français langue étrangère, à partir d’un corpus de textes narratifs et de type théorique écrits par vingt quatre étudiants de l’université de « Los Andes » au Venezuela dans différents moments de l’apprentissage de la langue. Une description des premières mentions des référents et des mécanismes anaphoriques [les densités et les modes de fonctionnement des formes] a été réalisée en y établissant les emplois spécifiques selon les types de discours repérés dans les textes. Cette analyse a été fondée d’une part sur les concepts de production langagière et de types discursifs de J.-P. Bronckart [1996], et, d’autre part, sur les travaux de M. Charolles [1991, 2002] sur l’anaphore et la référence, et, l’étude de G.de Weck [1991] sur la cohésion anaphorique. Par ailleurs, à partir d’un autre corpus constitué par des récits écrits par dix-neuf scripteurs français langue maternelle, une comparaison des performances cohésives des deux groupes des scripteurs a été effectuée. Celle-ci a permis de dégager les spécificités cohésives des textes des apprenants de français langue étrangère. Une analyse de la progression thématique mise en place selon la distribution des thèmes et des rhèmes [Combettes, 1988, 1993] des premières séquences des textes a été réalisée. Au terme de cette étude il a été possible d’établir les mécanismes de cohésion qui dépendent des conditions imposées par les types discursifs, par les consignes de la tâche d’écriture et - ou par les contenus thématiques des textes, et les stratégies utilisées par les apprenants en fonction de leur maîtrise de la langue. Finalement, des implications didactiques des résultats obtenus ont été mises en lumière. / This dissertation offers a study of the various nominal cohesion and discursive organisation procedures in written French as a Foreign Language based on a corpus of narrative and theoretical type texts written by twenty four students from the University of “Los Andes” in Venezuela at various stages of their language learning. A description of the first mentions of the referents and the anaphoric mechanisms [the densities and the modes of functioning of the forms] has been realized by making out the specific uses according to the type of speeches discovered in the texts. This analysis was based on the one hand on the concepts of linguistic production and discursive types of J.-P. Bronckart [1996], and, on the other hand, on M. Charolles’s researches [1991, 2002] on the anaphora and reference, and the study by G. de Weck [1991] on anaphoric cohesion. Moreover, based on another corpus constituted by narrative texts written by nineteen French native speakers, a comparison of the cohesive performance of both groups of writers has been made. It allowed us to draw out the cohesive specificities of the texts written by the French as a Foreign Language students. An analysis of the thematic progression set up according to the distribution of themes and rhemes [Combettes, 1988, 1993] of the first sequences of texts has been realized. Once this study was completed it was possible to establish the cohesion mechanisms which depend on conditions imposed by the discursive types, the instructions of the writing task and - or by the thematic contents of the texts, as well as the strategies used by the students according to their command of French. Finally, didactic implications of the results obtained have been highlighted.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar a progressão textual e a estrutura temática em resenhas produzidas por alunos no Ensino Superior, a partir dos pressupostos teórico da Linguística Sistêmico-funcional (HALLIDAY, 1978; HALLIDAY e MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014; MARTIN e ROSE, 2007; ROSE e MARTIN, 2012) aliados à Linguística Textual, a partir dos estudos de referenciação, numa perspectiva sociointeracionista (MONDADA, 2001; MONDADA e DUBOIS, 2003; MARCUSCHI, 1983 e 2008; KOCH et al.,2005; KOCH e ELIAS, 2010; KOCH, 2014; CAVALCANTE, 2011, 2012 e 2013; CAVALCANTE et al., 2014; e CIULLA, 2008). O que motivou este estudo foram as dificuldades enfrentadas por alunos, ao produzirem textos que exijam um rigor acadêmico, e o interesse por entender como o estudo dos processos de organização temática e referencial podem subsidiar o trabalho com a escrita acadêmica. Para tanto, os dados foram analisados a partir da metafunção textual, considerando os quatro estratos contextuais que envolvem o texto: o contexto de cultura e sua realização em gêneros, o contexto de situação por meio das variáveis de registro de campo, relações e modo, o estrato semântico-discursivo por meio da análise dos sistemas discursivos de identificação e periodicidade, e dos processos de referenciação, a fim de observar como os alunos constroem a progressão textual e as funções textual-discursivas mais recorrentes na composição do gênero resenha; e por fim, o estrato lexicogramatical analisado por meio da identificação da estrutura temática e estrutura da informação. Trata-se de um estudo de cunho qualitativo-interpretativo Os sujeitos de pesquisa foram alunos da Universidade Estadual do Rio grande do Sul (UERGS), frequentando o primeiro semestre em nível de graduação. O corpus é constituído por 10 (dez) textos do gênero resenha. Os resultados mostram que os padrões de estrutura temática estão diretamente relacionados à composição dos gêneros e ao conhecimento que os alunos possuem em relação à lexicogramática, aos aspectos semântico-discursivos e estruturais do texto. A análise do estrato discursivo-semântico permitiu olhar para a metafunção textual e entender como se dá o processo de progressão textual, a partir dos processos de progressão temática e progressão referencial. Pelos tipos de referências e estrutura temática presentes nos textos, pode-se concluir que os alunos têm conhecimento destas estratégias de construção textual, no entanto é evidente a necessidade de tornar este conhecimento explícito, de modo que suas produções evoluam em termos de qualidades discursivas. Por fim, como contribuição desta tese, espera-se despertar o interesse para a temática abordada, bem como oferecer subsídios teóricos e práticos para o planejamento de propostas de intervenção no contexto acadêmico, constituindo-se em uma importante ferramenta para o trabalho com a escrita e análise textual/discursiva no Ensino Superior. / The present thesis has as a general objective analyze the textual progression and thematic structure in reviews produced by students in Higher Education, based on the theoretical assumptions of Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1978; HALLIDAY and MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014; MARTIN and ROSE , 2007; ROSE and MARTIN, 2012) allied to Textual Linguistics, supported by the referential studies, in a socio-interactionist perspective. (MONDADA, 2001; MONDADA and DUBOIS, 2003; MARCUSCHI, 1983 and 2008; KOCH et al.,2005; KOCH and ELIAS, 2010; KOCH, 2014; CAVALCANTE, 2011, 2012 and 2013; CAVALCANTE et al., 2014; and CIULLA, 2008). What motivated this study were the difficulties faced by students, when they produced texts with academic rigor demand, and the interest to understand how the study of the processes of referential and thematic organization and can support the work with academic writing. For this, the data were analyzed from the textual metafunction, considering four contextual strata that involve the text: the context of culture and its realization in genres, the context of situation across the variables of field, tenor and mode, the semantic-discursive stratum through the analysis of the discursive systems of identification and periodicity, and of the processes of reference, in order to observe how the students build textual progression the textual discourse functions, which are more used in the composition of review genre; and finally, the lexicogrammatical stratum analyzed through the identification of the thematic structure and information structure. This is a qualitative-interpretative study The investigation subjects were students of the Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS), attending the first semester at undergraduate level. The corpus is constituted by 10 (ten) texts of the review genre. The results show that the patterns of thematic structure are directly related to the composition of the genres and to the knowledge that the students have in relation to the lexicogrammar, to the semantic-discursive and structural aspects of the text. The analysis of the discursive-semantic stratum allowed us to look at the textual metafunction and to understand how the process of textual progression occurs, from the processes of thematic progression and referential progression. For the types of references and thematic structure present in the texts, it can be concluded that the students are aware of these strategies of textual construction, however it is evident the necessity to become this knowledge explicit, in such a way that their productions develop in terms of discursive qualities. In conclusion, as a contribution of this thesis, it is hoped to awaken the interest for the approached topic, as well as to offer theoretical and practical subsidies for the planning of intervention proposals in the academic context, constituting an important tool for working with writing and textual/discursive analysis in Higher Education.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar a progressão textual e a estrutura temática em resenhas produzidas por alunos no Ensino Superior, a partir dos pressupostos teórico da Linguística Sistêmico-funcional (HALLIDAY, 1978; HALLIDAY e MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014; MARTIN e ROSE, 2007; ROSE e MARTIN, 2012) aliados à Linguística Textual, a partir dos estudos de referenciação, numa perspectiva sociointeracionista (MONDADA, 2001; MONDADA e DUBOIS, 2003; MARCUSCHI, 1983 e 2008; KOCH et al.,2005; KOCH e ELIAS, 2010; KOCH, 2014; CAVALCANTE, 2011, 2012 e 2013; CAVALCANTE et al., 2014; e CIULLA, 2008). O que motivou este estudo foram as dificuldades enfrentadas por alunos, ao produzirem textos que exijam um rigor acadêmico, e o interesse por entender como o estudo dos processos de organização temática e referencial podem subsidiar o trabalho com a escrita acadêmica. Para tanto, os dados foram analisados a partir da metafunção textual, considerando os quatro estratos contextuais que envolvem o texto: o contexto de cultura e sua realização em gêneros, o contexto de situação por meio das variáveis de registro de campo, relações e modo, o estrato semântico-discursivo por meio da análise dos sistemas discursivos de identificação e periodicidade, e dos processos de referenciação, a fim de observar como os alunos constroem a progressão textual e as funções textual-discursivas mais recorrentes na composição do gênero resenha; e por fim, o estrato lexicogramatical analisado por meio da identificação da estrutura temática e estrutura da informação. Trata-se de um estudo de cunho qualitativo-interpretativo Os sujeitos de pesquisa foram alunos da Universidade Estadual do Rio grande do Sul (UERGS), frequentando o primeiro semestre em nível de graduação. O corpus é constituído por 10 (dez) textos do gênero resenha. Os resultados mostram que os padrões de estrutura temática estão diretamente relacionados à composição dos gêneros e ao conhecimento que os alunos possuem em relação à lexicogramática, aos aspectos semântico-discursivos e estruturais do texto. A análise do estrato discursivo-semântico permitiu olhar para a metafunção textual e entender como se dá o processo de progressão textual, a partir dos processos de progressão temática e progressão referencial. Pelos tipos de referências e estrutura temática presentes nos textos, pode-se concluir que os alunos têm conhecimento destas estratégias de construção textual, no entanto é evidente a necessidade de tornar este conhecimento explícito, de modo que suas produções evoluam em termos de qualidades discursivas. Por fim, como contribuição desta tese, espera-se despertar o interesse para a temática abordada, bem como oferecer subsídios teóricos e práticos para o planejamento de propostas de intervenção no contexto acadêmico, constituindo-se em uma importante ferramenta para o trabalho com a escrita e análise textual/discursiva no Ensino Superior. / The present thesis has as a general objective analyze the textual progression and thematic structure in reviews produced by students in Higher Education, based on the theoretical assumptions of Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1978; HALLIDAY and MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014; MARTIN and ROSE , 2007; ROSE and MARTIN, 2012) allied to Textual Linguistics, supported by the referential studies, in a socio-interactionist perspective. (MONDADA, 2001; MONDADA and DUBOIS, 2003; MARCUSCHI, 1983 and 2008; KOCH et al.,2005; KOCH and ELIAS, 2010; KOCH, 2014; CAVALCANTE, 2011, 2012 and 2013; CAVALCANTE et al., 2014; and CIULLA, 2008). What motivated this study were the difficulties faced by students, when they produced texts with academic rigor demand, and the interest to understand how the study of the processes of referential and thematic organization and can support the work with academic writing. For this, the data were analyzed from the textual metafunction, considering four contextual strata that involve the text: the context of culture and its realization in genres, the context of situation across the variables of field, tenor and mode, the semantic-discursive stratum through the analysis of the discursive systems of identification and periodicity, and of the processes of reference, in order to observe how the students build textual progression the textual discourse functions, which are more used in the composition of review genre; and finally, the lexicogrammatical stratum analyzed through the identification of the thematic structure and information structure. This is a qualitative-interpretative study The investigation subjects were students of the Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS), attending the first semester at undergraduate level. The corpus is constituted by 10 (ten) texts of the review genre. The results show that the patterns of thematic structure are directly related to the composition of the genres and to the knowledge that the students have in relation to the lexicogrammar, to the semantic-discursive and structural aspects of the text. The analysis of the discursive-semantic stratum allowed us to look at the textual metafunction and to understand how the process of textual progression occurs, from the processes of thematic progression and referential progression. For the types of references and thematic structure present in the texts, it can be concluded that the students are aware of these strategies of textual construction, however it is evident the necessity to become this knowledge explicit, in such a way that their productions develop in terms of discursive qualities. In conclusion, as a contribution of this thesis, it is hoped to awaken the interest for the approached topic, as well as to offer theoretical and practical subsidies for the planning of intervention proposals in the academic context, constituting an important tool for working with writing and textual/discursive analysis in Higher Education.

This essay deals with translation changes taking place when translating two information-dense German texts into Swedish. The study focuses on the preverbal position of V2 declaratives, i.e. on the so called pre-field in German and Swedish sentences. This position plays an important role for the structuring of information, both at the intra-sentential and at the inter-sentential level. The aim of the study is therefore to investigate to what extent the information structure of the source text is carried over to the target text. A quantitative sentence-by-sentence analysis of the pre-fields of the source and target text shows many cases of re-structuring and re-writing have taken place during the translation process. A closer examination of those changes reveals some tendencies regarding the translation of the German pre-fields. In many cases text-initial rhematic (not previously mentioned) subjects of the source text have been replaced with time adverbials which function as so-called frame topics in the target text. Also, heavy, information-dense pre-fields of the source text have been split into two or more sentences in the target text. Furthermore there has been a “neutralization” of so-called marked structures of the source text. While those marked structures are used to achieve communicative effects in the source text, equal effects are mostly achieved by lexical means in the target text. The genre and style of the texts proved to play an important role for the choice between keeping and abandoning the information structure of the source text.