Estudo das construções condicionais em dois livros didáticos sob a perspectiva funcionalista

Abstract

The Functionalist studies are characterized by analyzing linguistic elements based on their use, considering the language as a social interaction instrument and having grammatical structures used according to the communicative context. In the same way, documents which guide the mother tongue teaching in Brazil, such as the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais and the Diretrizes Curriculares for Basic Education in Paraná also consider the interaction as the reason for language being communicative, therefore not being possible to study the language isolated from the communicative act. Starting from this assumption, we introduce on this essay an analysis of conditional clauses used in textbooks to verify if its definition and proposed activities match with the interactionist language approach and if they allow a reflexive thinking for the linguistic elements in real use. This essay is based on the Functionalist Perspective, emphasizing some conditional clause studies, such as Neves (1999; 2011), Castilho (2010) and Neves, Braga, Dall’Aglio-Hattnher (2008).