It investigates the use of nominal anaphoric descriptions in oral narratives, more specifically, the relationship between the use of these strategies and the constituents that form the structure of the narrative. We observe the functions nominal anaphoric descriptions exercise according to that relationship as well as the argumentative orientation that such expressions print on the speech of the narrator. To do so, we follow a theoretical path in which we discussed the concepts of oral narrative, we define the narrative structure and problematize the notions of referenciation, anaphora and referenciation strategies with nominal cores, among which we highlight the nominal descriptions. For studies of oral narrative and its structure, we used, in particular, the studies of Labov (1972). As for referenciation, anaphora and referenciation strategies, we follow the postulates of Marcuschi (2005, 2007), Koch (1996, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008), Dubois and Mondada (2003) and Lima (2004). The corpus of this study is composed of ten oral narratives videotaped and later transcribed. Informants are night watchmen who work in the center of Castanhal (PA). Accordind to our analysis, we do a classification of the functions that the nominal anaphoric descriptions exercise in different parts of the narrative. We propose, instead, a classification of these forms, considering their different degrees of argumentativity.
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