A causalidade de porque em textos escolares: domínios de atuação, gêneros de produção

• Autor(a) principal: Soncin, Geovana [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Longhin, Sanderleia Roberta [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.rle.ucpel.tche.br/index.php/rle/article/view/1093; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122534
• topic: Junção; Causalidade; Escrita; Junction; Causality; Writing

In this article we address the causality conveyed by constructions with porque in compositions written by students from a public school. Our purpose is to compare factors of cognitive and discursive order for examining possible motivations related to the variability and to the complexity involved in causal constructions. The analysis that we propose assumes that porque may have different interpretations depending on the context of use and may indicate the cause of an actual event, or the cause of a belief, or the cause of a speech act. We consider some theses of ontogenetic nature that support that the most cognitively complex meanings appear later, but we hold that there are other issues at stake. In what follows, we present evidence that the emergence of different causal relations with porque also takes place as a result of the operation of discourse genres.