Abstract
This chapter studies the construction of textual meanings taking into account concepts such as text (especially Maingueneau, 2005) and textuality (Costa Val, 1991). Based on the observation of a set of texts from Brazilian Portuguese (literary, journalistic, advertising, artistic), it reflects on the mechanisms of cohesion and coherence.
It pays special attention to the approaches to Portuguese that take into consideration elements fundamental for the construction of meaninings beyond the grammatical aspects of the educated norm of writing.