Strips in elementary school: Multimodality contributing to the construction of meaning
Keywords:
Comics, Multimodality, Construction of meaning, Elementary education.Abstract
The text presented here is related to a larger research project that is being developed in the Graduate Program in Letters (PPGLETRAS), of a Public University involving elementary education and aspects related to multimodality and reading. We made an excerpt from the project for this study with the aim of presenting the strips as a textual genre marked by multimodality dialoguing for the construction of meanings. As theoretical assumptions, we resort to the studies of Vergueiro (2004), Rama (2016), Dionísio and Vasconcelos (2013), Rojo (2012), Menezes De Sousa (2007), among others. As a methodology, theoretical studies were used on the conceptions of reading and production of multimodal texts in the classroom, whose texts (strips) consisted of the corpus of analysis. The results of the study dealt with the relevance of the comic strip genre and the importance of multimodality for understanding meaning.
