Recurrence of proverbial brands on college entrance exam essays: forms of severability in a comparative study
Keywords:
proverbial brands, college entrance exam essays, severability, writing.Abstract
This paper aims to present a comparative study on the manifestations of severability in proverbial brands and the incidence of such brands in college entrance exam essays. Particularly, in this study, we observed the use of the brand that seeks to capture the formal constitution of the proverb genre, analyzing their discursive functioning. The analysis material consists of two sets of sixty essays: One in attendance to the proposal of FUVEST from 2006 and another from FUVEST 2009. As a theoretical referential, we will depart from concepts developed by the Theory of Enunciation and by the Discourse Analysis of French line of work. The results of this research points to the predominant use of the proverbial brand analyzed as a resource used by pre-college students to synthesize their texts.