Exemplo lexicográfico em dicionários escolares brasileiros

Abstract

Lexicographical example is conceived here under the perspective of metalexicography and the multimodality theory. The choice for this study is justified from the importance of examples as informational paradigm as they assume varied communicative functions when composing the lexicographical article. The study’s objective is to classify and analyze functions of the lexicographical example in Brazilian school dictionaries. In order to carry out the research I rely on the studies of Hernández (1994), Humblé (2001), Pérez (2000), Calderón Campos (1994). Towards the visual analysis of the example I consider the contributions of scholars linked to the theory of multimodality, like Kress and van Leeuwen (2006). The corpus studied consists of dictionaries such as: Ferreira (2001, 2005), Mattos (2005), Aulete (2004), Rocha (2004) used in the primary education school.