Estratégias de referenciação em textos de alunos do ensino médio de uma escola pública de Amargosa-BA

Abstract

This study analyzed strategies of referenciation in texts produced by public school students of the city of Amargosa, showing how the authors employ these mechanisms of cohesion to guarantee contruction of overall meaning of the texts. The methodology selected was field research, in which were analyzed the strategies of referenciationin eight (08) opinion articles, which were collected between August and September 2014. The criteria for the choice of these texts were adequation to dissertative and argumentative style and textualcohesion and consistency. The research used studies in the area of Text Linguistics, where they stand renowned authors, the example of Fávero (2009), Koch (2005), Antunes (2013), among others. Koch (2013) says the referenciation concerns the ways to introduce new entities or referents in the text, at the same time ensuring structural and discursive progression of text. In the analyzes undertaken, in this study, we perceived the strategies of referenciation are indispensable to keep textual progression, maintain referent asset in the reader's memory, avoid too many repetitions, introduce new informations, among other functions.