This work inserted in the area of Textual Linguistics has as general objective to analyze
the cohesive and lexical knowledge of the students of a class of the 3rd year of High
School, of a state public school in Castanhal city, in the state of Pará, in Brazil, relating
this to the development of cohesion reference. Specifically, it aims to examine the
lexical level and the occurrence of referential cohesion mechanisms in argumentative
texts. This research has as theoretical foundation Koch (2010), Fávero (2003),
Marcuschi (2012), Val (2006), Cançado (1995), Cardoso (1999), among other authors
dedicated to the study of linguistics, human language in its various aspects. This
research follows the qualitative and quantitative methods, and can be classified as
descriptive and explanatory, of an applied nature, being carried out in three stages: 1)
Collection of material to compose the research corpus, through the application of two
activities: a production textual and an activity of lexical comprehension and production;
2) Bibliographic research; 3) Analysis and interpretation of the corpus and data
obtained. The results showed that the lexical “limitation” appears as an adverse factor to
the students' performance regarding the use of lexical reiteration referential cohesion
mechanisms in dissertative argumentative texts.
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