The concept of text and literary text approach in textbooks

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n2a42654

Keywords:

textbook, text concept, literary text.

Abstract

This article discusses the concepts of text that underlie the treatment of literary texts by textbooks. For this study, statements of text interpretation issues present in Literature sections are analyzed in two textbooks adopted in public schools in the state of Ceará, for high school. The objective was to analyze the text concepts suggested by textbooks in the approach of literary texts. It was possible to make some considerations about how these approaches can have an impact on teaching and learning to read these texts. Guided by the reflections of Textual Linguistics and the theory of complexity, especially in the ideas of Koch (2001 and 2009), Marcuschi (2003 and 2012), Demo (2002) and Franco (2011), it was possible to identify some text concepts from the analysis of some issues of interpretation of literary texts. It was also observed, in this study, that the activities of interpretation of literary texts in textbooks still treat the text as a pretext, without elucidating the necessary interaction between text and reader, defended by the conception of text from the perspective of complexity and by the most recent ones studies of Textual Linguistics.

Author Biographies

Camila Maria dos Santos Silva, Universidade Estadual do Ceará (Uece)

Graduada em Letras/ Português/ Licenciatura pela Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), especialista no Ensino da Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) e mestranda pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística Aplicada (PosLA) da Universidade Estadual do Ceará, atua como Professora da Educação Básica na rede pública de educação do Estado do Ceará.

Cláudio Márcio Ferreira Cavalcanti, Universidade Estadual do Ceará (Uece)

Mestrando pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística Aplicada (PosLA) da Universidade Estadual do Ceará, atua como Professor da Educação Básica na rede pública de educação do Estado do Ceará.

Published

2021-06-21