The desirable cognitive guessing game in the reading of Machado de Assis’s A carteira
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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v36i4.22709Keywords:
processing, cognition, literary text, interface, anticipationAbstract
Current paper focuses on the reading process as a desirable cognitive game of guessing (anticipation, prevision, prediction), originally as a guessing game, according to Goodman (1991) and Smith (2003). Theory is posited on the interface between Psycholinguistics and Literature. In fact, the short story A Carteira (2012), by Machado de Assis, requires a comprehension of the text’s facts in its literariness. Theory bonding reading and the guessing game is first exploited. The proce437-449ss is thereby demonstrated by a possible reading of an also possible reader who forms a pathway for its comprehension by establishing connections between the text’s linguistic marks and the reader’s prior knowledge. At the end, the course developed in the article is finally resumed with discussions on its possible application in teaching.
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