A evolução histórico-discursiva das atas de câmaras municipais da Paraíba do século XX ao século XXI.

Abstract

The Executive Secretary is a professional who performs several functions within publicor private enterprises One of theseassignments is theact of writing official/commercial documents. For this reason, this paper aims to analyze the evolution of the textual genre Meeting Minute, and understand its structure and its role within such organizations, so that it serves as a support for secretaria students and professionals as well. The theoretical framework used in this research was the theory proposed by Bakhtin (2000) about the genres of discourse, Kabatek”s (2005) theory about discursive tradition, Belloto's (2002) considerations about the textual genre Minute, Medeiros” (2010) Writing Handbook, as well as the Official Wnting Handbook of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil (2002), Moura'”s (2011) Master"s dissertation and Nicholas” (2008) thesis among other contributors. The evolution of this textual genre, analyzed in two different centuries, is due to the social, political and economic context ofeach period, so thatthe textsfit the changesin society. The corpus of this research consists of six (6) meeting minutes, three of them from the twentieth century and other three from the twenty-first century which were collected from an existing corpus and ffom worldwide computer network. K can be stated that the meeting minutes were changed, but characteristics that identify them as a Discursive Tradition are still remained.