BETWEEN PENCILS AND KEYS: SELECTING AND COMBINING LETTERS

The article analyzes and discusses datas of cognitive-linguistic work of RM (10y4m) with speech, reading and writing in different sociocultural contexts of use of language, including those mediated by computers, based on the theory of Discursive Neurolinguistics and, in particular, on the concept of bipolar organization of language. According to the school, RM has difficulty for reading/writing and disperses easily from schoolwork. We observed that he had recurring doubts related to graphical representation of the letters, which is why we started working with various types of letters (handwritten and printed), in reading and writing activities including those produced by computer taking advantage of its physical and symbolic potential. The results show that the materiality (?) of the computer, ie the arrangement of letters on the keyboard, the software interface, the vertical screen and the letter type, imposed other conditions/restrictions for RM's written, interpreted here as a alternation between selections and combinations conditioned by sociocultural factors, producing a positive effect on his relationship with writing.