A definição da conjunção que em dicionários para estudantes do ensino médio

The definition of the conjunction that in dictionaries for high school students

Abstract

Conjunctions are words related to the processes of subordination and coordination. In this sense, they are important for the understanding of compound periods. As one of the roles of the school dictionary is the aid in reading and writing, the registration and definition of this grammatical class is relevant for students who are in the stage of producing more complex texts, because the conjunction also functions as a cohesive element. Thus, this work aims to investigate how the type 4 dictionaries of the National Textbook Program - PNLD (2012) define the conjunction “que”. As theoretical bases, we are based on researchers of Grammar, as Cunha & Cintra (2017), Bechara (2009), Bagno (2012), and of Lexicography, as Pontes (2009), Biderman (1984) and Bugueño Miranda & Farias (2011). Our analyzes showed that the studied entries used paraphrases for indication of morphosyntactic and pragmatic use and synonymic paraphrases to define the “que”. This indicates that the dictionaries took into account not only the syntactic function developed by the conjunction to define it, but the different meanings that it can assume in different contexts of use, since it is an element with a variety of uses and meanings, recognized by the classifications presented by the definitions.