Predição discursiva em dissertações de linguística na Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

Abstract

The present investigation arises within the scope of investigations that have been carried out at the level of Discourse analysis to describe the interactive character of written text. The work, which is fundamentally focused on discourse analysis techniques, intends, in general, to study the macro-category of 'prediction', one of the forms of structuring written discourse through the categories of enumeration, anticipated labeling, recapitulation and report. The corpus for this study comprises a set of seven linguistics dissertations written by former linguistics undergraduate students at the Faculty of Letters at the Eduardo Mondlane University. The study comprises seven chapters. Chapter i is the introduction, which presents the theme, the objectives, the importance of the study, as well as the context of its emergence and the model adopted for its pursuit. In chapter ii - literature review - the various perspectives of linguistic analysis are reviewed, their importance and limitation, in order to establish an adequate perspective for discourse analysis. In chapter m - research methodology - the criteria for data collection and presentation of standard examples are presented for a better understanding of the concept of 'prediction'. Chapters iv, v, vi and vii are dedicated to the appreciation and discussion of the categories under study. Each of these chapters presents (i) the nature of the category in question and the criteria for its use, and (ii) the data collected that constitute the corpora and the respective analysis. Chapter saw concerns the conclusions and recommendations. The general conclusions of the study and some proposals for further research are presented