Análise do gênero portuário NOR sob a ótica da linguística sistêmico-funcional

• Autor(a) principal: Alcântara, Alessandra Cristina Bittencourt
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6621
• topic: Systemic functional linguistics; Genre; Generic structure potential; Sociolinguística; Portuários - Linguagem; Funcionalismo (Linguística); Língua inglesa Estudo e ensino; Língua inglesa Gênero; Linguística sistêmico-funcional; NOR; Gênero; Estrutura potencial do gênero; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

The teaching of English as a foreign language in a technical school is designed to meet students' and the course s needs. Acting as a teacher of English for Specific Purposes at CEFET Itaguaí, I came across a new course in Rio de Janeiro state, the Technical Course of Cargo shipping. Considering this, the present study aims to investigate how the cargo shipping document, NOR, or Notice of Readiness, which is a crucial cargo shipping operation and, consequently, an important material for the course at CEFET, is structured in stages to transmit meanings. Objectively, this paper answers the following research questions: "what is the situation in which the NOR is produced? " and "what are the main features of the language that mediates social activity in this situation?". To answer these questions the theoretical assumptions of Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) (HALLIDAY, 1985, HALLIDAY; HASAN, 1989) were drawn upon: SFL sees function and semantics as the basis of language and of communicative activity, and thus considers language to be influenced by social context. The concept of gender adopted comes from the same functionalist perspective: genre is here seen as an activity driven by goals and purposes, held in stages and in which speakers are engaged as members of a particular culture (MARTIN, 1992). The notion of a contextual configuration (CC) for a genre is also adopted, and it refers to the variables located in the situational context (field, tenor and mode) that enable one to realize the obligatory and optional elements that make up a genre´s structure potential (GSP), as well as investigate their structural features, lexical, grammatical and semantic (HASAN, 1989). The corpus for this study consists of ten exemplars of the document NOR, collected in two companies with cargo shipping terminals in the region of Costa Verde in Rio de Janeiro. In order to examine these documents, a qualitative research was carried out to identify their obligatory and optional stages on the basis of the identification of lexico-grammatical signals in the text, thus mapping their functions, as Hasan (1989) proposed. The results of the analysis of the ten documents suggest that there are four obligatory stages in these texts: the NOR document has four stages that fulfill certain important functions in the social activity in which it operates. These stages occurred in all samples studied and are therefore crucial to characterizing the genre. This research contributes to the pedagogy in the area of cargo shipping negotiations as it establishes a suggested model to facilitate the reading and writing of the document NOR, which might lead to professionals in the field becoming more competent participants in the social activity under discussion. Apart from its contribution to the area of cargo shipping , this research may help in the analysis of other genres, in which researchers adopt a model that considers the social environment in which the text is produced