O discurso didático: testagem de um modelo para descrição do sentido pela semântica argumentativa

Abstract

Thinking about the reading and the production of texts/discourses necessarily implies thinking about the construction of meaning. Following this reasoning Azevedo elaborated her doctoral thesis (Semântica Argumentativa – uma possibilidade para a descrição do sentido do discurso – Argumentative Semantics – a possibility for the description of the meaning of discourse) where she proposed the redimensioning of some methodological-operational concepts of Oswald Ducrot and Marion Carel’s Theory of Argumentation within Language – more specifically, of the Theory of Semantic Blocks – with the purpose of applying it to the semantic-argumentative description of discourse. Such redimensioning originated a theoretical-methodological model for the description of the meaning of discourse. The natural consequence of an investigation is the testing of the model created. This testing is the core of the research developed by Azevedo and Rowell that, in its turn, is just the first stage of a much wider study towards the didactic transposition of that model to the teaching of the mother tongue, which is the ultimate and essential end of the work that started with Azevedo’s thesis.