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Aboutness in Documentary Analysis of infant and juvenile literary text: perspectives for improving the representation of content

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Author(s):
Roberta Caroline Vesu Alves
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Marília. 2016-03-22.
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências. Marília
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Advisor: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes
Abstract

The need to retrieve information of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text led to the development of research that discussed the identification of themes considering aboutness and analytical phase of Documentary Content Analysis. It was necessary to bring about ways of representing those texts for retrieval with the synthetic phase of Documentary Content Analysis, by means of developing the informational product abstract, containing important text elements and answer for information needs of potential users. The problem of the research is how to represent the content of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text in abstracts, considering their textual structure and aboutness from the text? The hypothesis is that the representation of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text in abstract requires adapted structure, theme or aboutness and the characteristic elements of fictional narrative text for the text of the abstract. The thesis considered that the theoretical foundations of the Generative Sense Course, Greimasian Semiotic and Theory of Narrative contributed to subsidize the important macro structural and super structural elements to be used in an adapted way in abstracts of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text. The proposition consisted in the study of theoretical foundations for elaboration of abstracts of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text in Documentary Content Analysis, and macro structural and super structural elements of Text Linguistics, aboutness from the Generative Sense Course, arising from Discourse Analysis and Semiotic Greimasian, and elements that characterize fictional narrative text of the Narrative Theory. The goal was to develop procedures of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text abstracts, in the range of the Documentary Content Analysis for representation of their structural, thematic or aboutness and characteristic aspects, understood through the Generative Sense Course, Greimasian Semiotic and Theory of Narrative. The exploratory study methodology, which allowed analysis of different theories from different knowledge areas, was used to develop procedures for abstracts elaboration, in order to apply these procedures in sample of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text. The elaboration procedures of abstracts for infant-juvenile fictional narrative text should consider the representation according to the aspects of text structure and content for information retrieval of theme, character, story space, story time, narrator, time of narrative and types of literary genres, should also be considered. The selection of these textual elements guided the reading and representation procedures, for they are complementary procedures that have in common the use of the important aspects of the superstructure and macrostructure, besides the support of metacognitive strategies. The application of procedures for elaboration of abstracts in the sample considered the adjustment of structure and theme for these abstracts of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text. Procedures for representation in abstracts for youth fictional narrative text could be developed, considering theoretical basis and proposed procedures, respecting the structure and aboutness following the text. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/24229-4 - Aboutness in Documentary Analysis of infant-juvenile literary text: perspectives for the improvement of content representation
Grantee:Roberta Caroline Vesu Alves
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate