Os atos de fala nos textos instrucionais: uma proposta de leitura a partir da perspectiva interlocutiva

Abstract

Texts of instructional character have as common feature the settlement of specific procedures, determined by the speaker, who intends to bring his/her counterpart to a determined purpose related to the use of the genres approached by both of them. The task execution by the involved individuals is a determining issue to the achievement of their usage purposes. However, while predisposing these procedures in the textual level, discrepancies concerning the way the tasks are informed arise, evidencing a greater or lesser rigidity concerning the imposing level of procedures. In the interest of analyzing the ways these specificities affect reading meaning-making, four instructional-character texts were selected, namely: recipe, bulla, user s guide and contract. Through the study of the mentioned genres we verify the predisposition of the related procedures, proposed essentially by imperative and declarative sentences. This dissertation intends to assemble the linguistic markers of the examined texts, inherent to procedure sentences with conversational factors assumed by the theory of speech acts. In order to do so, it is verified the theoretical approach given by the following authors: Austin (1962), Searle (2002), Said Ali (1964), Bechara (1977), Cunha (1978), Rocha Lima(1976) e Azeredo (2011) . Therefore, this investigation intends to portray an analysis of textual and conversational elements within the discursive composition of the chosen statements. The research has shown the existence of a relationship between how meanings are made and the attitudes of instructing and obey by the individuals, from the phrases used in the texts to instruct