Reflexos na escrita de certos funcionamentos do sistema linguístico do português do Brasil

Abstract

This research, in general terms, aims at identifying possible motivations for the unexpected use of comma in academic texts, and correlating the use of commas with certain linguistic motivations. In this perspective, some occurrences sometimes are taken as mistakes, while at other times are considered as the result of an unexpected comprehension of the function of the system. The analysis is based on a corpus constituted of texts written by graduate and undergraduate students. For the analysis of the material, we founded the analysis on the approach of the Traditional Grammar and on the content of the Descriptive Grammar, which does not exclude from its approach the norm, nor the rule, but, instead, seeks to reach them from the analysis. In this study, it was observed, for instance, that the different uses of the comma might be associated with certain occurrences of the clausal structures of the language because of the influence of the phonetic and phonological level over the syntagmatic levels or syntagmatic divisions. The data analysis shows that the students are, in some way, familiarized with certain syntagmatic clausal sequences, that, even when they are not used, they end up reflecting on another formation, because of similarity among them. From the findings of this study, possible linguistic and methodological guidelines were elaborated to minimize the student’s difficulties to use comma according to normative grammar.