This dissertation aims at proposing reading comprehension learning situations in English, based on Saussurian concepts of value, system, and the notion of relation, for students at level B1, of the Common European Framework ...

This dissertation analyses two non-fiction books written by Jack London: The people of the abyss (published in 1903) and The cruise of the Snark (published in 1911). Written over a period during which ethnography’s ...

This dissertation examines the ideological representations present in the voices of the characters in the novel Incidente em Antares, by Erico Verissimo, with the support of the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, especially his ...

This dissertation is about humor mechanisms generation present in the short story “No Kaddish for Weinstein” (ALLEN, 1975). It is possible to identify in the narrative the frequent presence of ethnic humor, more specifically ...

This study investigates the character Lily Frankenstein, from the television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), as an unfolding of the female creature that was only idealized by Victor Frankenstein and his creature, in ...

This paper aims to analyze the representations of the periphery in the novel Capão pecado as a historical source from the fields of literary criticism and the historiographical current of New Cultural History (NCH) that ...

This study aims to demonstrate how the concept of internal argumentation (IA), featured on the actual version of the Argumentative Semantics, specifically the Semantic Blocks Theory by Carel and Ducrot, can help academic ...

This research analyzes how the Saussurian notion of value can contribute to the teaching of subordinate adverbial clauses as a way of collaborating for the student's understanding of the use of conjunctions in compound ...

This dissertation aims at proposing an enunciative analysis of marks of subjectivity present in editorials of the following newspapers: Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo and O Globo, all of them published during ...