As cartas dos leitores de jornal na sala de aula: as marcas de oralidade como estratégias estilístico-argumentativas

Abstract

The present research, based on the social interactionist language theory, sustain the hypothesis that orality marks, far away from being textual problems to be eliminated from texts, can be strategically used on reader s letters to recreate an oral ambience in writing with expressive and argumentative purposes, manifesting author s feelings and involving reader on discussed problematic. Starting from this hypothesis, corroborated by detailed studies on twenty-five letters published between August and December 2010 in O Globo, some theoretical aspects are remodeled, like reading, writing, expressivity and argumentation definitions, and a pedagogical practice which considers the student a language strategist , someone that rejects cheats and other language dogmatisms as he uses intentional speak traces in his texts, is defended. The research focus concentrates,therefore, in theoretical aspects and questions about the pedagogical doings