Text genre and time discursive construction

Authors

  • Maria Antónia Coutinho
  • Noémia Jorge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.20.1.145-164

Keywords:

text genre, discourse type, expositive order, narrative order

Abstract

This paper adopts a text and discourse linguistics framework. We will assume discourses (or discourse types) represent an intermediate organizational level between text genre and the specific linguistic devices in use (Bronckart, 1997, 2008). Discourse types play a key role in language activity, as they allow the transition between individual and collective representations, and they involve temporal and agentive relationships. In our research, we focus the linguistic devices associated with temporal relationship, in order to distinguish between expositive and narrative discourses and to verify our main research issue: to understand how social activity and text genre can constrain the presence of different discourse types and to describe what function can assume the same discourse type in different texts (of different genres). To obtain evidence to address these questions, we analyze texts produced in literary, familiar and scientific activities.

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Author Biographies

Maria Antónia Coutinho

Maria Antónia Coutinho é Professora Associada da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Obteve em 2000 o doutoramento
em Linguística (área de especialização em Teoria do Texto) com a tese intitulada Texto(s) e competência textual, publicada em 2003. É também investigadora do
Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL), coordenando atualmente a equipa do projeto PreTexto – Praxis, Conhecimento e Texto (Grupo Gramática & Texto), que desenvolve investigação prioritariamente centrada no quadro teórico e epistemológico do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo.
Tem publicado artigos vários, em Portugal e no estrangeiro, e orientado teses de doutoramento e de mestrado nas áreas referidas.

Noémia Jorge

Noémia Jorge é bolseira da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia desde 2009, encontrando-se a preparar uma tese de doutoramento intitulada «O género ‘memórias’. Análise linguística e perspetiva didática», sob a orientação
de Maria Antónia Coutinho (FCSH-UNL). Integra o Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, atuando na área da Linguística do Texto e do Discurso (grupo Gramática & Texto, projeto PreTexto). Tem como áreas
de interesse a compreensão dos mecanismos de inter-relação entre textos, atividades/ações e língua(s), por um lado, e a didatização de diferentes géneros textuais e desenvolvimento das capacidades de leitura e escrita, por outro.

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Published

31.12.2012

How to Cite

Coutinho, M. A., & Jorge, N. (2012). Text genre and time discursive construction. Verba Hispanica, 20(1), 145–164. https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.20.1.145-164

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Linguistics

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