This paper describes bracketing (JUBRAN, 1996, 2006b), based on the text-interactive perspective (JUBRAN, 2006a, 2007), in data from a written Spanish conversation mediated by computer in a learning virtual environment - the educational chat - for Brazilians. We observe that bracketing is one of the regularities in the text construction in the chat analyzed. We verifity that bracketing is, therefore, a strategy of text construction, and a very productive one.
Text-interactive perspective; strategy of text construction; bracketing; chat; written Spanish conversation mediated by computer
