The present work consists in a discursive approach of our master’s degree dissertation’s Project object: the fairy tale “Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs”, the movie “Mirror Mirror”; two distinct materialities: the first essencially linguistic; the second, filmic, presenting verbal and non-verbal language. Our aim is, initially, proceed to a comparison between these two versions, establishing the relations of comparison/contrast, analyzing them discursively. As they are two distinct materialities, we consider the question regarding the discursive gender: the written short story, the movie. As a theoretical contribution to the gender study, we took into consideration the contributions from Bakhtin (1997), to whom the genders are relatively stable types of enunciation. Despite this contribution, this work is confined to the Archaeological Discourse Analysis and, as such, is based mostly on Foucault postulates. According to Revel (2005, p. 13), “The foucaultian Archaeological Method” seeks to, [...], rebuilt behind the fact a whole network of speeches, of powers, of strategies and of practices”. Through the light of Focault’s postulates (2008, 2009, 2012a; 2012b), we have observed, initially, the authorship question, the woman´s position, in both materialities, the relations of power/knowledge, the enunciation, the speech, the already-said speeches. We have yet reflected about the body usage during the process of disciplinarization, linked to the relation power-knowledge, to the punishment; the update of the speech over the social place where the characters enunciate themselves (whether they got social prestige or not). We have analyzed the cultural industry (TEIXEIRA COELHO), specially the one from the cinematographic media (BERNARDET; KRISTEVA), in the update process of the ideal of hapiness, the reiteration of marriage, as a social insititution founder of this happiness. This discourse is built through the use of a values’ system, permeated by the “existence of a happy ending”, due to the ability to reach out a social status of prestige (related to royalty). We highlight also the control of behavior patterns (obedience versus disobedience), these being determinant when it comes to the constitution of a social subject. As a result, we have understood that the cinematographic media allows the spreading of these values/discourses, in an attempt to preserve them and, as they are doing so, they also open dialogues with the religious discourse and the pedagogical. Once given our object of study and the theory sustaining it, we consider this research with a qualitative character. We judge the relevance of this present because it allows a reflection over the pointed out aspects. / O presente trabalho consiste em uma abordagem discursiva dos nossos objetos de dissertação de mestrado: o conto de fada “Branca de Neve e os sete anões”, o filme “Espelho, espelho meu”; duas materialidades distintas: a primeira essencialmente linguística; a segunda, fílmica, apresentando linguagem verbal e não-verbal. Nosso objetivo é proceder a uma comparação entre essas duas versões, estabelecendo as relações de comparação/contraste, analisando-as discursivamente. Como são duas materialidades distintas, consideramos a questão dos gêneros discursivos: o conto escrito, o filme. Como aporte teórico para o estudo de gênero, levamos em consideração as contribuições de Bakhtin, para quem os gêneros são tipos relativamente estáveis de enunciado. Apesar dessa contribuição, este trabalho está circunscrito à Análise Arqueológica do Discurso e, como tal, está pautado principalmente nos postulados foucaultianos. Conforme Revel (2005, p. 13), “O método arqueológico foucaultiano busca, [...], reconstituir atrás do fato toda uma rede de discursos, de poderes, de estratégias e de práticas”. Assim, à luz dos postulados de Foucault, observamos a questão da autoria, a posição da mulher, em ambas as materialidades, as relações de poder/saber, o enunciado, o discurso, os discursos já-ditos. Refletimos também sobre a utilização do corpo no processo de disciplinarização, ligado às relações de poder-saber, à punição; a atualização do discurso acerca do lugar social de que enunciam as personagens (de prestígio social ou não). Analisamos ainda a indústria cultural (TEIXEIRA COELHO), em especial, o da mídia cinematográfica (BERNARDET; KRISTEVA), no processo de atualização do ideal de felicidade, da reiteração do casamento, como uma instituição social fundadora dessa felicidade. Esse discurso é construído a partir da utilização de um sistema de valores, perpassado pela “existência de um final feliz”, pelo alcance de um status social de prestígio (relação com a realeza). Ressaltamos ainda o controle de padrões de comportamentos (obediência versus desobediência), determinantes na constituição do sujeito social. Com efeito, entendemos que a mídia cinematográfica propicia a divulgação desses valores/discursos, numa tentativa de preservá-los e, na medida em que faz isso, dialoga tanto com o discurso religioso quanto com o pedagógico. Dado o nosso objeto de estudo e as teorias que o sustentam, consideramos esta pesquisa de caráter qualitativo. Julgamos a relevância deste trabalho por propiciar uma reflexão acerca dos aspectos apontados.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-07-18T14:03:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 carolinecostapereira.pdf: 8560758 bytes, checksum: d60ff611042735ccc5369ab572bc5bfd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-22T15:03:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 carolinecostapereira.pdf: 8560758 bytes, checksum: d60ff611042735ccc5369ab572bc5bfd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-22T15:03:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 carolinecostapereira.pdf: 8560758 bytes, checksum: d60ff611042735ccc5369ab572bc5bfd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08 / O objetivo geral deste trabalho é investigar o uso do gênero Conto de fadas no ensino de leitura em língua inglesa no contexto da escola pública. As principais perguntas de pesquisa giram em torno da inter-relação entre a dimensão sociocultural e a dimensão linguística na abordagem didática do gênero, buscandose tanto evitar um ensino de aspectos lingüísticos desvinculado das práticas discursivas quanto usar o gênero apenas como pretexto para o ensino de léxico e gramática. A fim de atender a esses objetivos, elaborou-se uma sequência didática, que foi aplicada numa turma do 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental numa escola da Rede Pública Estadual de Minas Gerais. Para o estudo da noção de gênero, utilizouse fundamentalmente como arcabouço teórico a perspectiva dialógica de BAKHTIN (1953/2006) e, sobre a sequência textual narrativa, as reflexões de BRONCKART (2003). O principal aporte para a elaboração da sequência didática foram as pesquisas sobre a transposição didática do gênero realizadas pelo Grupo de Genebra, DOLZ e SCHNEUWLY (2004) em particular. Recorreu-se também a TURNER (1996), ZILBERMAN (2003), PROPP (1973 /2010) e REUTER (2006) para a descrição linguística e sociocultural do gênero Conto de fadas. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam a relevância de se explorar adequadamente a dimensão sociocultural do gênero para o desenvolvimento da compreensão leitora, mas sem negligenciar o aspecto linguístico-textual, o que se revelou como um grande desafio a ser enfrentado na prática pedagógica. / The aim of this research is to investigate the use of the genre Fairy Tale in the teaching of English reading in the context of public schools. The main research questions revolve around the inter-relation between the sociocultural and linguistic dimension in the approach of language teaching in the genre, seeking to avoid both the teaching of unrelated linguistic aspects of discursive practices and the use of genre only as a pretext for teaching lexicon and grammar. In order to meet these goals, we set up a didactical sequence, which was applied in a 9th grade class of a elementary public school in the state of Minas Gerais. To study the notion of the genre, the dialogical perspective of BAKHTIN (1953/2006) was used as a theoretical framework and the reflections of BRONCKART (2003) for the textual narrative sequence. The main theoretical basis for the development of the didactical sequence was the research of the didactical transposition made by the Group of Genebra, in particular SCHNEUWLY AND DOLZ (2004). Additionally it was referred to TURNER (1996), ZILBERMAN (2003), PROPP (1973/2010) and REUTER (2006) to describe the linguistic and sociocultural description of the genre Fairy tale. The results point to the importance of exploring properly the sociocultural dimension of the genre for the development of reading comprehension without neglecting the linguistic and textual aspect, something that proved a major challenge to be faced in the pedagogical practice.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Majori Fonseca Claro.pdf: 4862486 bytes, checksum: 7dee93fd53acd11b130f2885d4d7586e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The main goal of this research is to accomplish a comparative analysis between the character Baba-lagá, who appears in fairytales of the Slav folklore, and Cuca, a folkloric character from Luso-Brazilian culture, also present in lullabies, literary fragments, religious festivals and in Monteiro Lobato s book, O Sací. Leaving the premises of the Russian formalist Vladimir Propp, we analyze morphologically the creation of the characters in his narrative, as well as tracing their ritualistic origins. Based on the psychological concepts of Carl Gustav Jung, and his followers, we are looking for a symbolic understanding of these two sorceresses. The hypothesis proposed of similarity is that they are rooted on the same archetypal and hystorical ground, in the way that both are representatives of maternal images in its terrible form, and that has its origins in rituals of the sacred and profane. For the differences found we discussed the hypothesis of an inexhaustible manifestation of the archetype as an image and of cultural diversity. Throughout the research we can confirm these hypotheses by analyzing Monteiro Lobato s book and by reflecting on the characteristic features of the literary genres in which these sorceresses fall, concluding that if fairytales and lullabies were to resonate with their narrators voices, through shared experiences from around the world, in the field of modern literary art this reflection would pass into the metalinguistic and the text would gain, from the form, the capacity to consciously contribute to the reformulation of the world it mirrors / O objetivo desta pesquisa é realizar uma análise comparativa entre a personagem Baba- Iagá, presente nos contos de magia do folclore eslavo, e a Cuca, figura do folclore lusobrasileiro, presente também nas cantigas de ninar, fragmentos literários, procissões religiosas e no livro O Saci, de Monteiro Lobato. Partindo das premissas do formalista russo Vladimir Propp, analisamos morfologicamente a atuação das personagens nas narrativas, bem como empreendemos um rastreamento de suas origens ritualísticas. Baseados nos conceitos psicológicos de Carl Gustav Jung e seus seguidores, buscamos a compreensão simbólica dessas duas feiticeiras. A hipótese proposta para as similaridades é que elas se enraízam num mesmo solo arquetípico e histórico, na medida em que ambas são representantes de imagos maternas em sua face terrível , e que têm suas origens nos rituais sagrados e profanos. Para as diferenças encontradas, lançamos a hipótese da inesgotabilidade da manifestação do arquétipo como imagem e da diversidade cultural. No decorrer da pesquisa, pudemos comprovar essas hipóteses e, por meio da análise do livro de Monteiro Lobato, refletir sobre os traços característicos dos gêneros literários nos quais essas feiticeiras se inserem, concluindo que, se nos contos de magia e das cantigas de ninar ressoam vozes narradoras que compartilham experiências sobre o mundo, na arte literária moderna esta reflexão passa a ser também metalinguística e o texto literário ganha, desta forma, a capacidade de contribuir conscientemente para a reformulação do mundo que espelha

Though known for his fantastical writings George MacDonald is often considered to be a typical Victorian teacher of religious and moral seriousness. Approaches to MacDonald’s works normally seek to find his ‘message’ by expositing the moral, social, pedagogical, psychological or theological ‘content’ of his work. This study recasts MacDonald in the light of his shorter fairytales for the ‘childlike’ and argues that these seemingly small and insignificant works are a golden key to his artistic enterprise. This is not because of any particular ‘message’ that they carry but because of their peculiarly light mode of generating meaning and the relation of this lightness to theology. Whilst it is frequently disparaged, levity actually has strong parallels with the theological atmosphere of Christianity. Light modalities such as folly, ecstasy, play, vanity, carnival and Sabbath demonstrate that the Christian faith has greater affinities with lightness and whimsicality than its solemn defenders sometimes admit. MacDonald’s fairytales draw upon this surprising harmony between levity and faith to create environments in which readers can playfully reflect upon the nature of ultimate reality and begin to find their own place within that reality. By helping to remove the mask of ‘seriousness’ presented by things in the everyday world, fairytales engender a kind of ‘divine carelessness’ and help people to let go of the weighty cares and fears that keep them tightly bound to worldly things.

This diploma thesis deals with language support for children with a different mother language through the work with a book in the kindergarten. Its main aim is to design and implement lessons, that are focused on language support for children with different mother language through the work with a book in kindergarten. The effectiveness of the lessons are reflected in the individual levels of speech in the three groups of children with different levels of language support. The theoretical part contains the characteristics of the development of speech and language by the preschool children. Than it contains theoretical data about reading literacy and the ways of its development through the work with a book, also this part contains the specifics ot children with different mother language and the possibilities how to improve the language knowledge. The three groups of children with different mother language are examined in the practical part. Each of the group achieved different level of language during three months. The groups were diagnosed with an input test and an output test. These tests are compared at the end of the thesis, there we can see the progress that children made after three months of language support. The practical part also contains twelve lessons that are focused on the work with the...

One in 4 children in the United States lives in a family impacted by the chronic, heritable disease of substance use disorder (SUD), also known as alcoholism or addiction. Recent research has demonstrated that resilience is a key protective factor against developing the disease in adolescence and adulthood and that the neurological roots of resilience lie in the child's experiences in early childhood. In spite of this, few resources related to family SUD or current models of resilience are included in preservice teacher preparation for early childhood educators. This study examined whether key components of Masten's model of resilience are found in fairytales, a form of literature commonly used in early childhood teacher preparation programs. A qualitative, descriptive, deductive content analysis was conducted on 24 fairytales from 22 different cultures, using a tool derived from Propp's morphology of fairytales and Masten's model of resilience. Results indicated that the texts of 96% of these stories contained multiple specific references to the 3 dominant evidence-based factors for resilience: attachment/relationships, initiative, and self-regulation. When broken into the 7 subcategories of these 3 protective factors, as identified by Masten, 9 fairytales contained examples of all 7 protective factors; 9 had examples of 6, and another 5 had examples of 5. The results of this study may be used to provide teacher educators with resources to better prepare preservice early childhood teachers to understand and nurture resilience in children, while addressing existing mandated learning objectives related to emergent literacy. This will benefit all children the teachers will work with, but especially those who are impacted by SUD and other forms of trauma.

One of the major challenges that persists in postsecondary foreign language (FL) education in the US today is how to implement a more integrated approach to language and literature instruction, that is, one that fosters critical awareness on multiple levels and prepares learners to be globally-connected and engaged citizens (MLA, 2007; Swaffar & Urlaub, 2014). Major contributions for achieving these goals have come from an array of pedagogical approaches that share in common their focus on language as a resource for making socially and symbolically rich meanings that do more than convey facts or express objectives. These include those designated as multiliteracies and genre-based approaches, as well as those that promote intercultural, symbolic and literary competencies as integral to the language learning experience. All of these frameworks acknowledge to some extent the fact that ambiguity-understood here as the multiplicity, indeterminacy, or destabilization of meaning-characterizes language itself and thus also our day-to-day and global communication, as well as the experience and process of FL learning. This dissertation, based on a qualitative classroom-based research study, considers how ambiguity can more be comprehensively integrated into FL learning and in particular into text-oriented teaching practices. The approach taken was a pedagogy that embraces ambiguity by providing learners and educators with strategies for navigating the moments of indeterminacy, uncertainty, and doubt that they will inevitably encounter in and out of the FL classroom. The study, set in an intermediate German language and culture course at a large public university, investigates 1) how to incorporate and assess moments of ambiguity more comprehensively across the curriculum and 2) how learners responded to various encounters with ambiguity, including ambiguity of genre, perspective, and silence. Data analysis revealed that purposeful integration of induced ambiguity can facilitate more comfort with those three dimensions and that it complements the principles of a multiliteracies-based FL pedagogy.

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In this dissertation, I investigate the cognitive processes integral to intertextual readings by referring to the cognitive linguistics framework known as conceptual blending. I refer to different genres of intertextual texts and then explain these intertexts in terms of cognitive principles and processes, such as conceptual blending networks. By applying the framework of conceptual blending to intertexts within different genres, I suggest that the underlying cognitive processes are universal for the interpretation of any type of intertextual text. My findings indicate that conceptual blending underpins intertextuality which is cognitive, creative and dynamic in nature. This means that the meaning we construct from intertexts is dependent on the context in which they appear and cannot be studied in isolation. Investigating intertextual texts from a cognitive linguistics perspective reveals new inferences (such as the influence of implicit knowledge as a type of intertext) and the creativity involved in the meaning-making process. / Linguistics / M.A. (Linguistics)