Despite increased efforts by linguists and educationalists to facilitate literacy and literature development in minority languages, there are still many languages worldwide which do not have a written form. One area that needs attention in literature production for a newly written language is the question of writing style. As the features of good style are language-specific, writing style guidelines have to be developed for each language anew. It has been assumed that such vernacular writing style develops predominantly by mother tongue speaker intuition. However, very few studies have been carried out to verify this. This research is set within the confines of the literacy project in the Rangi language of Northern Tanzania. As a contribution to the development of a natural writing style in Rangi, this research investigates what evidence for stylistic preferences can be found in texts that were produced by Rangi authors writing in their mother tongue for the first time. The main data of this study are 112 texts which were collected during a one-day writers workshop conducted between May 2005 and January 2006 in four different locations. One way of observing stylistic preferences is through analysing the changes which authors make in successive versions of their text. Of the 112 texts in the database, 71 display stylistic changes between draft and revised versions. These texts are then investigated in more detail, e.g. with regard to text length, lexical density and story components. The subsequent comparative analysis of draft version versus revised version of each text operates at three levels: narrative elements at the text level, lexical choice at the word level, and word order, tense-aspect verb forms and participant reference at the clause level. At all three levels, stylistic conventions could be identified, e.g. formulaic introductions and codas, elimination of Swahili loanwords, or certain tense-aspect usages. Despite such commonalities, this research suggests that, far from developing intuitively, vernacular writing style is influenced by a variety of factors, not least by previously available literature in languages of wider communication or in the target language itself. Among the concluding recommendations of this study for future vernacular writers workshops is the advice to employ guided editing which encourages multiple drafting and treats the different levels of editing separately, i.e. story structure, lexical choice and grammatical features.

Este estudo trata de uma análise de recortes discursivos dos capítulos II, III, IV, V e VII do tomo I da obra Dom Quixote de La Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes. A escolha desta obra se deu por ser a mais importante da literatura espanhola, e ademais, um importante livro de ficção da literatura mundial. Para tanto, fundamentamo-nos em vários estudiosos da obra de Cervantes; entre eles, Basanta, Rico e Riquer, por serem dirigentes das edições comemorativas dos 400 anos da obra em estudo. A ousadia deste trabalho é compreender a obra em questão, sob uma ótica da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, teoria e dispositivo de análise do estudo. Salientamos que a teoria foi fundada por Michel Pêcheus, na França, em fins dos anos sessenta e desenvolvida no Brasil por Eni Orlandi e seguidores. Dessa forma, o trabalho pretende analisar segmentos discursivos específicos de alguns capítulos do tomo I da obra indicada acima. Especificamente, visa a identificar efeitos da interdiscursividade, formações discursivas, ideológicas e imaginárias nos recortes constituídos, bem como estabelecer uma aproximação entre Dom Quixote e a Análise do Discurso. As análises realizadas indicam que o discurso do cavaleiro Dom Quixote gera o efeito de combater as injustiças sociais e Cervantes trabalhou com as novelas de cavalaria em forma de humor, visando a passar, sem censura, pela Inquisição. Concluímos a dissertação afirmando que este trabalho não finaliza por aqui, devendo ser aprofundado em futuros estudos de doutorado e em artigos científicos. Da mesma forma, esperamos que seja um caminho para novas pesquisas, que associem a Análise do Discurso e a literatura. / This study is an analysis of discursive framings of Chapters II, III, IV, V and VII of Volume I of the work Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. The choice of this work was given as the most important Spanish literature, and moreover, an important book fiction literature. Therefore, We base ourselves on the work of several scholars Cervantes, among them Basanta, Rico and Riquer, being leaders of commemorative editions of 400 years of work in the study. The boldness of this work is to understand the work in question, under an optical Discourse Analysis of French theory and analysis device of the study. We emphasize that the theory was founded by Michel Pêcheus in France in the late sixties and developed in Brazil by Eni Orlandi and followers. Thus, the paper discusses some specific segments discursive chapters of Volume I of the work indicated above. Specifically, it aims to identify effects of interdiscursivity, discursive, ideological and imaginary made ​​the cutouts, as well as establishing a closer relationship between Don Quixote and Discourse Analysis. The analyzes indicate that the speech of knight Don Quixote creates the effect of combating social injustice and Cervantes worked with the novels of chivalry in the form of humor, aiming to pass without censure, by the Inquisition. We conclude the thesis stating that this work does not end here, should be deepened in future doctoral studies and scientific articles. Likewise, we hope to be a path for further research, involving Discourse Analysis and literature.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 raimundo_batista_almeida.pdf: 25820639 bytes, checksum: 5ac0563736b98383aca8bd7c55619141 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-21 / This study is an analysis of discursive framings of Chapters II, III, IV, V and VII of Volume I of the work Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. The choice of this work was given as the most important Spanish literature, and moreover, an important book fiction literature. Therefore, We base ourselves on the work of several scholars Cervantes, among them Basanta, Rico and Riquer, being leaders of commemorative editions of 400 years of work in the study. The boldness of this work is to understand the work in question, under an optical Discourse Analysis of French theory and analysis device of the study. We emphasize that the theory was founded by Michel Pêcheus in France in the late sixties and developed in Brazil by Eni Orlandi and followers. Thus, the paper discusses some specific segments discursive chapters of Volume I of the work indicated above. Specifically, it aims to identify effects of interdiscursivity, discursive, ideological and imaginary made ​​the cutouts, as well as establishing a closer relationship between Don Quixote and Discourse Analysis. The analyzes indicate that the speech of knight Don Quixote creates the effect of combating social injustice and Cervantes worked with the novels of chivalry in the form of humor, aiming to pass without censure, by the Inquisition. We conclude the thesis stating that this work does not end here, should be deepened in future doctoral studies and scientific articles. Likewise, we hope to be a path for further research, involving Discourse Analysis and literature. / Este estudo trata de uma análise de recortes discursivos dos capítulos II, III, IV, V e VII do tomo I da obra Dom Quixote de La Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes. A escolha desta obra se deu por ser a mais importante da literatura espanhola, e ademais, um importante livro de ficção da literatura mundial. Para tanto, fundamentamo-nos em vários estudiosos da obra de Cervantes; entre eles, Basanta, Rico e Riquer, por serem dirigentes das edições comemorativas dos 400 anos da obra em estudo. A ousadia deste trabalho é compreender a obra em questão, sob uma ótica da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, teoria e dispositivo de análise do estudo. Salientamos que a teoria foi fundada por Michel Pêcheus, na França, em fins dos anos sessenta e desenvolvida no Brasil por Eni Orlandi e seguidores. Dessa forma, o trabalho pretende analisar segmentos discursivos específicos de alguns capítulos do tomo I da obra indicada acima. Especificamente, visa a identificar efeitos da interdiscursividade, formações discursivas, ideológicas e imaginárias nos recortes constituídos, bem como estabelecer uma aproximação entre Dom Quixote e a Análise do Discurso. As análises realizadas indicam que o discurso do cavaleiro Dom Quixote gera o efeito de combater as injustiças sociais e Cervantes trabalhou com as novelas de cavalaria em forma de humor, visando a passar, sem censura, pela Inquisição. Concluímos a dissertação afirmando que este trabalho não finaliza por aqui, devendo ser aprofundado em futuros estudos de doutorado e em artigos científicos. Da mesma forma, esperamos que seja um caminho para novas pesquisas, que associem a Análise do Discurso e a literatura.