Linguistic interference as a symptom of Discursive Tradition in school production

Abstract

The proper use of language, whether in its written or spoken form, is a theme that requires constant reflections in teaching practice. Considering that the school space should provide the student with contact with the cultured variety of the language, this article presents an analysis of the textual productions belonging to the genre of opinion, resulting from the application of a didactic sequence (DOLZ, NOVERRAZ, SCHNEUWLY, 2004 ) in a class of the 9th grade of Elementary School. Through the comparison between the initial and final productions, we analyze the presence of linguistic interferences (KABATEK, 1997) as a symptom of discursive traditions. It is a master’s research linked to the Professional Master’s Program in Letters - ProfLetras, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, based theoretically on the model of discursive traditions (KABATEK, 2006). In this perspective, the texts are in a continuum between orality and scripturality, in which orality is understood as the language of immediacy, while scripturality is the sphere of communicative distance, according to the communicative parameters postulated by Koch and Oesterreicher (1990) . In order to do so, our object of study is constituted by the production of the opinion article genre. In terms of results, we verified the impact caused by the reading of genres of scripturality, resulting in the displacement of the productions in the continuum of texts, of interferences that characterize orality, by the use of structures focused on the communicative distance, as required by the context in question.