The role of prosody and comma uses in texts of first years of junior high school

• Grant number: 15/15289-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2015
• End date: October 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Luciani Ester Tenani
• Grantee: Tainan Garcia Carvalho
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this Project, the investigation objects are the non-formal uses of commas in first years of Junior High School texts. The research advances in relation to other studies on the subject by investigating narrative texts of a same group of students from the Junior High School initial cycle. The objective to be achieved is to characterize the non-formal uses of commas, either on the syntactic structures where the commas occurs, and either on the prosodic boundaries that these commas may be associated to. The research hypothesis is that the commas are the linguistic expression of a symbolic process of the representation between speech and writing.