Since the 1980s, from Geraldi's (1984) pioneering proposal of incorporating, in the teaching of Portuguese, the axis of linguistic analysis, many publications have achieved academic relevance. However, most of them have only considered the topic theoretically. This article, however, intends to go further. It is an attempt of analysing an examplar from the genre historical report, discussing the theoretical orientation that gives support to the linguistic analysis and presenting examples of possible practical suggestions for the classroom. To do so, we make use of utterance theory (Bakhtin, 2003 e 2004) and genre theory (Bronckart, 2003), making use, at certain moments, of Textual Linguistics (Koch, 1989, 1990; Costa Val, 1999). We intend, with this, to present a sample of linguistic analysis, with no intention of regarding it as unique or exclusive. The objective is to contribute to the area of text analysis, considering the text in terms of its production context, its genre and its linguistic features.
genre; linguistic analysis; Portuguese teaching
