Transcategory categorization strategies in Amazonian oral narratives: a study of the socio-cognitive implications for the process of construction of discursive activity

Abstract

This article aims to disclose the results of a research carried out with ten students from the ninth year of a peripheral school located in Rio de Janeiro. Affiliated to the Qualitative Paradigm, we’ve asked the research’s subjects how would they understand the argumentativity presented in samples of three text genres: the report, the advertising and the comic strip. Based on the Text Linguistic, we proposed activities that enabled linguistic-discursive analysis of specimens of the proposed genres. Therefore, the results reveal that that most part of the subjects can identify the thesis when presented in the texts, although they can’t argue their findings with its linguistic marks. Despite relying on few participants, the research points out to a needed methodology that observes the genres in their functioning, and that associates lexical and grammatical choices to these objectives, in order to allow periphery students access to a number of social facts, in an inclusive way.