FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERTEXTUALITY IN READING: COMIC STRIPS IN TEXTBOOKS
Intertextuality. Reading. Comic strips. Textbook.
Intertextuality is a factor of textuality that requires the activation of previous knowledge of the reader’s cultural background, being inherent in the entire reading process, and is implicated in the effects of the text’s meaning. The comic strip is a genre of multimodal nature as a part of the humor field, it explores a variety of situations and invites the reader to make inferences, to understand the elements implicit in it as well as to establish connections between verbal and non-verbal language. The conciliation of these elements brings the author-text-reader relationship to the heartwood of reading, which does not consider the reading concept based only on the text or the reader; instead, it aggregates the interaction between them. Thus, our dissertation aims to analyze whether the treatment given by the textbook to intertextuality in comic strips contributes to a critical reading or not. For this purpose, we base our research in the light of Textual Linguistics and the National Curriculum Parameters (Brazil), through authors such as Koch, Bentes and Cavalcante (2012); Koch and Elias (2013); Costa Val (2006); Antunes (2003, 2007, 2009, 2014); and Brasil (1997,1998), among others. While Ramos (2017, 2018) and Vergueiro and Ramos (2015) contributed to the characterization of the comic strip genre, Smith (1993) and Foucambert (1994) were references for the reading approach. The corpus here used was delimited in 4 copies of the Portuguese language book from the Conexão e Uso collection for the construction of research elements from 6th to the 9th-grade school year, for we start from the assumption that there are contexts not yet covered in the textbook concerning intertextuality in the comic strip. Therefore, at the end of our work, we propose an activity notebook, based on situations of intertextuality addressed in the humor genre textbook and based on a perspective that prioritizes critical reading for elementary school students.