Consciência metalinguística e linguagem conotativa figurativa: uma ferramenta de apoio

We will report on a support tool for the promotion of metalinguistic awareness through figurative language. There is the conceptualization of metalinguistic consciousness and figurative language being presented various suggestions / proposals for the promotion of these constructs. Although these suggestions can be used in various contexts, with different types of people and at different ages, obviously the possibility of major elaborations is unlikely at least with young children. It is an attractive, well-grounded material, running through various aspects of figurative language such as concrete and abstract names, proverbs, choruses and connotative phrases, redundancies, tasks like knowing what to do in certain situations. They are tasks of literal answers with precipitants for metalinguistic analysis. In addition to the literal answers, the subject must make explicit his answer. The solutions and the appropriate quotations are also presented.