The factors of textuality and the construction of meanings in the text

Abstract

The text, as an organized whole of meaning, needs some factors of textuality so that its meaning and significant aspects are constructed. These factors - cohesion, coherence, acceptability, informativeness, intertextuality, situationally, and intentionality ­– they should be taken into account both at the time of reading and at the time of producing a text. Given this, the present work aims to analyze the factors of textuality from news of the site Sensationalist (which promotes satire on political information), highlighting how textuality factors appear in the text and how they contribute to the construction of meaning. This study is justified by the need for these concepts to be present in Portuguese Language classes in order to assist teachers in the process of textual organization of students’ productions. The analysis will have as a theoretical basis the concepts worked by Beaugrande and Dressler (1997), Ingedore Koch (2014), and Luiz Antônio Marcuschi (2008 and 2012). With this, it is intended to show the importance of these elements in the production of meaning and textual organization, in addition to contributing to the mother tongue teachers to improve the work of the process of textual production of the students.