The importance of presuppositions and universe of discourse studies in teaching experiences
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English Teaching for Teenagers, Digital Literary Texts, Universe of the Discourse, PresuppositionsAbstract
This expanded abstract intends to discuss some possibilities of insertion of the concepts of “Universe of Discourse”, from Semantics (Hurford; Heasley; Smith, 2007) and “Presupposition”, from Pragmatics (Yule, (1996/2016) in the teaching (and analysis) of language in an English teaching classroom.The textual resource analyzed in this work was taken from the novelization of the Resident Evil games, widely known among young people. The analysis was conducted considering the theoretical contributions of Presuppositions and Universe of Discourse, discussed by Yule (1996/2016) and Hurford, Heasley, and Smith (2007), respectively. Digital literary texts explored in the classroom can be great allies in the teaching of language as social practice increasing the learning potential of students, once they serve as vivid examples of the role language assumes in interactive processes.
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