Аннотация:This investigation focuses on unconventional reading occurrences, "slips" committed by readers when reading texts.Even though we avoid a moralistic and classificatory approach, we took into account the difference between the work performed by individuals who may already be considered "competent readers" and the one performed by readers who lack a deepening in their education.The idea that these slips in reading are considered part of the knowledgebuilding process (ESTEBAN, 2000(ESTEBAN, , 2001;;SUASSUNA, 2004) is essential to this study.That's the reason why our attempt to interpret the deviant formulations and their causes is intended to break with the logic the failure and, instead, seek a questioning that can result in the creation of new knowledge.The corpus consisted of two kinds of materials: a) news; and b) texts published on the Internet and comments about them posted by readers.Based on a theoretical framework which included different theories about Reading (GREIMAS, 1979;MARCUSCHI, 1985;
