Abstracts - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

ROSALICE PINTO, CENTRO DE LINGUÍSTICA DA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA,PORTUGALRE(CONFIGURATION) OF SOCIAL ACTORS IN MULTIMODAL TEXTSWhen facing empirical data derived from several social activities, one perceives thatknowledge and information are transmitted through texts (oral and written) thatmobilize various semiotic resources. Therefore, some aspects that were, in a way,neglected by the sciences of language – essentially characterized by a verb centredvision – began being valued by theoreticians that privilege the multimodalcharacter of action. Various text/speech specialists expanded this matter. On oneside, there are specialists that privileged a certain expression plan, such as: Kress &Van Leeuwen (1996) – who are interested by the elements of visual semiotics-; onthe other side, authors that revealed, mainly, an interlace of various systems in aprocess of dynamic construction, like Kress et al. (2001), among others. Due to thecomplexity of questions raised by the multimodal analysis of texts, this work, whichcombines theoretical-methodological aspects of Socio-discursive Interactionism andSystemic Functional Linguistics, aims at showing, primarily, the ways of multimodalexpression existent in two distinct text genres: one advertising and one idea debate.Further on, we will show that the adopted plurisemiotic choices are not random,but generically constricted. Finally, we will point out that the social actors put inscene in these texts are (co)constructed by the combination of multimodalresources at disposal of the text´s producer and we will also describe them. Withthis contribution, we intend, thus, to indicate some hints that may be used inteaching/learning contexts of curricular units, contributing to the development ofteachers and students.ReferencesBronckart, J.-P (2004). Commentaires conclusifs. Pour un développement collectif de l´interactionnisme socio-discursif, Calidoscópio 2 (2), p. 113-123.Bronckart, J.-P (2008). Genres de textes, types de discours, et « degrés » de langue, Texto ! [Enligne], URL : http://www.revue-texto.net/index.php?id=86.De Saint-Georges I. (2008). La multimodalité et ses ressources. In L. Filliettaz: I. de Saint-Georges, B. Duc , ”Vos mains sont intelligentes!” Interaction en formation professionnelleinitiale. Université de Genève: Cahiers de la section des sciences de l´éducation, 103, pp. 117-158.Filliettaz, L. (2009). Les représentations du travail dans des réunions de relève de poste enmilieu industriel. Une analyse multimodale. In S. Canelas-Trevisi, M.-C. Guernier, G. SalesCordeiro & D. Lee Simon (Ed.), Langage, objets enseignés et travail enseignant (pp. 47-70).Grenoble: ELLUG, p. 47-70.Kress, G. & Van Leeuwen, T. (1996) Reading Images. The Grammar of Visual Design. London:ISFC38 Book of Abstracts Page 169 Lisbon, July 2011