Method to find the deed already done

Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay to offer the reader the knowledge of how he created one of his most widespread poem, "The Raven". Carlos Ginzburg revisits its path to building your online research about witchcraft and gave up as the choice of the base object of this research and special the study entitled “Good Walkers”. Both Poe and Ginzburg talk about the method of the development of their work, but adopt contrary postures what drives them in carrying out their work. The rule and intuition. The ideal and the desire. Mediating this difference, this text follows the paradigm of the method of Giorgio Agamben. Whereas the method is only the description of the deed already done and not a pre-order already known that can build an innovation.

On the semantics of 'pouco' (little/few) and 'um pouco' (a little/few)

this paper discusses the interpretation of expressions ‘pouco’ (‘few’) and ‘um pouco’ (‘a few/little’) from a referential approach of meaning (CHIERCHIA, 2003; among others). First, we aim to describe their syntactic and semantic behavior. After that, we search for the appropriate semantics to be attributed to ‘pouco’, which operates both on the domain of individuals and on the degree domain. In spite of this, there is a general operation that this modifier does (GUIMARÃES, 2007). We propose a semantics for ‘pouco’ which incorporates two aspects already seen in the literature: the value judgment, and the intuition that it means something like ‘less than a contextual standard’. To ‘um pouco’ we advocate a compositional approach.