Paratext of Portuguese school books (1930 to 2002): language, writing and teaching writing

• Grant number: 19/14049-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: October 01, 2019
• End date: October 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Manoel Luiz Gonçalves Corrêa
• Grantee: Cristian Henrique Imbruniz
• Supervisor: Fraenkel Beatrice
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Centre Maurice Halbwachs, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/24562-9 - Writing handbooks and teaching writing from 1930 to 2002: a linguistic-discursive study, BP.MS

Abstract

The goal of this project is to detect the conceptions of (1) language; (2) writing; and (3) teaching writing in prefaces and intertitles (paratexts) from eight Portuguese school books published between 1930 and 2002. For this purpose, we followed, as broad theoretical basis, the studies of Applied Linguistics in a discursive view, and, more specifically, the concepts of make it strange (GINZBURG, 2001 [1998]) and writing acts (FRAENKEL, 2007; 2018). Both concepts were drafted in the fields of History and Writing Anthropology, respectively. Our research is based on the analysis of paratexts in their graphic layout and publishing aspects, particularly in their graphics and writing acts. (AU)