O papel do processo inferencial na compreensão de textos escritos / The role of the inferential process in written texts comprehension

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2005

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This dissertation examines the process of written texts comprehension, focusing specifically on the readers? production of inferences. We investigate the inferences that Languages undergraduate students make (in terms of written comments) from a literary narrative text. The analyzed corpus comprises written comments made by undergraduate students of the second year of the Language course at a State University from the countryside of Goiás. The comments were uttered from three types of contact (listening, reading and commenting/reading) with a literary narrative text: the short story ?A gaivota?, by Augusta Faro. We depart from the assumption that the comprehension of texts depends both on processes of decoding and inferring, regarding that there must not be comprehension if one draws no inferences. Inference is conceived here as a cognitive strategy by which the reader generates new semantic information, from a given piece of semantic information, in a given context. Thus, we intend to depict (i) which inferences are made (in terms of written comments) in different contexts (listening/reading), after reading a literary written text and (ii) in which terms the fact of such subjects display a ?inferential competence? has to do to the different kinds of contexts. Besides, we intend to relate the process of comprehension of narrative text constitutive elements and the inferences made in the subjects? comments. We realized that the inferential process relates both to the subjects? mental schemes and to their personal context, so that the subjects, once based on these two sources of extra-textual information, engage on giving meaning to the text by making logical, informative and elaborative inferences. And, in the specific case of the short story applied to the research, we realized that the inferences encompass the constitutive elements of such narrative, specially the character and the action

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inference (linguistic) inferencia (linguistica) compreensão na leitura reding comprehension processamento textual cognição text processing cognition

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