Usos não-padrão das estratégias de relativização no português brasileiro: hipercorreção e estilo

This study focuses on the current use of the relative pronoun qual and variants or alternatives (o/os/a/as/ qual/quais, preceded or not by prepositions) in Brazilian Portuguese concerning mainly on the phenomenon of hypercorrection. As a theoretical basis, it was used the study of William Labov about the phenomenon and also the rules of use of this pronoun present in both traditional grammars and linguistic studies. It was performed a qualitative analysis of a corpus of written language with the intention of describing the different uses of the pronoun, and looking for their possible motivations. There were also found different types of occurrences of hypercorrection, which has led to propose a scale of uses of this relative pronoun, which reveals an increasing loss of its functions towards an use as an index of prestige. It discusses also the stylistic factor as a potential motivator of this phenomenon

Estudo acústico da variação da frase interrogativa, com destaque para o dialeto paulista

With the new computational technology, the studies of acoustic phonetics started to have a special place. This brought a new way of seeing the phenomenon and to deal with it in the phonetics and in the phonology. Such studies have been developing even more, recently, with a facilitated use of computational programs specially developed to the acoustic analysis of speech, such as PRAAT. Programs like this have been very interesting and useful recently. The acoustic models of analysis have influenced the way the researchers came to see and to interpret the prosodic phenomenon. The current project investigates the acoustic production of declarative and interrogative sentences from the “paulista” Portuguese. This study contributes for a more detailed description of the phenomenon, also becoming inserted in the chart of “intonational” descriptions of the Brazilian Portuguese. The subject of this current project is the acoustic study of some intonation aspects from the speaking Portuguese in Brazil, with a special place to the “paulista” dialect. The current project´s purpose is to make a specific study of interrogatives sentences through the acoustic data analysis of “paulista” dialect speakers

Nomes próprios na variedade são-carlense

This dissertation aims to study the adaptation of proper names of (truly or supposedly) foreign origin, investigating the force of the phonological system of the destination language in the process of incorporating foreign words, objecting to bring contributions to the determination of Brazilian Portuguese phonological identity, from the investigation of the limits between what is and what is not considered Portuguese, from the point of view of the pronunciation , to its own native speakers. The objective is to evaluate in which way loans introduce or not a new microsystem in the destination language (CARVALHO, 2009, p. 85) in the phonological level

A personagem Bigger Thomas na obra de Richard Wright e a construção de identidade afro-americana

This paper analyzes the character Bigger Thomas Native Son’s American novel published in 1940 by African-American author Richard Wright. Through this character we try to study more the post-slavery racial issue in a country where racial segregation was legally sustained and how this issue was reflected in society and identity formation of their native sons African-American

Furor em Phoenissae de Sêneca

Este trabalho investiga a presença da característica do furor em uma das tragédias do escritor romano Sêneca, qual seja, Phoenissae. Mais especificamente, o furor aqui analisado pertence à personagem Édipo, na primeira parte da tragédia. O furor é o atributo essencial para a transformação da personagem em monstro e essa transformação ocorre em todas as tragédias senequianas, sendo um traço estilístico do autor. Este trabalho também relaciona o furor à filosofia estoica de Sêneca, já que as suas personagens trágicas serviriam de exemplo de como o furor pode tirar do rumo a vida de uma pessoa desequilibrada

Reflexões sobre o ensino de português para estrangeiros e sobre o ensino de português para falantes de língua materna

Le présent travail intitulé « Réflexions sur l’enseignement de la langue portugaise aux étrangers et sur l’enseignement de la langue portugaise aux natifs », a eu pour objectif d’enquêter sur les consensus et les désacords dans l’enseignement de la langue portugaise aux differents interlocuteurs. Des lectures préalables sur des textes de difusion scientifique qui ont pour but de divulguer des expériences sur l’enseignement du portugais aux étangers ont révélé l’importance atribuée à la connaisance de la culture quand il s’agit d’enseigner une langue donnée à de tels interlocuteurs. La connaissance de la culture est très importante dans ce cas de figure car il s’agit d’une conception plus ample : celle de l’interculturalisme. C’est pourquoi, nous faisons des lectures préalables dont la méthodologie proposée pour l’enseignement de la langue portugaise aux étrangers s’organise d’une telle façon que l’interlocuteur se trouve immergé dans la culture locale. Néanmoins, quand il s’agit de réfléchir à l’enseignement de la langue portugaise dédié aux natifs et basé sur les propositions curriculaires de la langue portugaise au collège et au lycée, datés de 1993 e 1998, qui constituent des textes de vulgarisation scientifique, on peut constater la préoccupation à réfléchir sur les conceptions de langage, langue, discours, texte et grammaire, des connaissances considérées comme importantes à la proposition de methodologies de l’enseignement de la langue portugaise dans le contexte très formel de l’enseignement scolaire. Le principal objectif de ce travail a consisté à analyser l’importance de la culture dans l’enseignement de la langue portugaise aux étrangers et natifs, le rapport entre culture, language, langue, discours, texte et grammaire dans l’enseignement du portugais aux étrangers et du portugais aux natifs, ainsi qu’à identifier le poids ...

O acento em tupi antigo

O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar a lírica tupi de Pe. José de Anchieta, discutindo a possibilidade de análise do acento da língua tupi antiga, via métrica adotada pelo autor em seus poemas. De toda a sua obra poética, 18 poemas foram escritos inteiramente em língua tupi, 10 deles servindo como corpus para esta pesquisa. Como aporte teórico para essa análise foi utilizada a Fonologia não-linear - mais precisamente a Teoria Métrica de Hayes (1995) - e um modelo de abordagem baseado em Massini-Cagliari (1995,1999 e aorientações na área) para com o português arcaico. As poesias em enfoque foram observadas em várias versões da obra disponíveis (Anchieta 1954, 1984, 2004). Para a base do estudo tupi, foram utilizadas as gramáticas de Anchieta (1933) e Lemos Barbosa (1956), além de livros e textos de Navarro (2006a, 2006b) e Ayron Rodrigues (1958)

A utilização de jogos lúdico-didáticos no ensino de língua inglesa

Nowadays the accelerated development arising from globalization and the interrelation of the nations, the great increase in communication between different countries and the necessity for knowledge in different linguistic structures, the interest in learning a foreign language is crescent, and thinking about it, this work has the scope to verify how young and adult learners of a foreign language, in this case English, behave, that is, how best to develop the four language skills of the language: listening, writing, speaking, and reading and how the use of recreational and educational games can help this dichotomy between teaching-learning. The present research, theoretical and analytical basis, aims to make a study on how fun games can influence the teaching and learning of English in an audience of young and adult people and that includes a study of how human history has evolved, more precisely, as history of education was influenced by the playful and how the human mind also becomes over time. Nowadays, the playful is a tool that has been widely used pedagogically in teaching foreign languages and every day opens new manners and ways of teaching languages, always with its array of spaced more possibilities. Under this assumption, the focus of this research is discover how the use of recreational and educational games may influence grammar greater understanding and language development of young and adults students in learning English, and also what better way to introduce these games, that is, a contextualized content being discussed each time during the school way, so that the games may be, of course, used for relaxation of the students, but also (and especially) for their intellectual growth and language development

A presença da interculturalidade em livros didáticos de espanhol língua estrangeira

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo principal a análise da interculturalidade em uma coleção de livros didáticos de ensino da língua espanhola selecionados pelo Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD), este voltado à distribuição dos livros em escolas de ensino público. Apresenta-se, inicialmente, um breve histórico da inserção do ensino de língua estrangeira no Brasil, que progride na tentativa de que os alunos compreendam a magnitude de aprender uma língua de caráter estrangeiro, uma nova língua. Além disso, elucidou-se sobre o ensino do espanhol na sala de aula, a fim de salientar a importância do ensino da língua estrangeira, apresentando em seguida a história e implicações do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático. Logo, foi aclarada a questão da interculturalidade no ensino, ou seja, os aspectos culturais de diversos países aplicados na educação do estudante com o intuito de demonstrar a magnificência de discernimento e aprendizagem das perspectivas culturais ao redor do mundo, e desse modo, possibilitando a compreensão da análise proposta neste trabalho. Foi utilizado como objeto de estudo e análise o livro didático El arte de leer español, de Deise Cristina de Lima Picanço e Terumi Koto Bonnet Villalba, que possui três volumes voltados ao ensino médio. A análise foi realizada a partir da presença da interculturalidade em textos e exercícios do referido livro didático

O conto de Rubens Figueiredo em As palavras secretas: conto contemporâneo

We work with the storybook, As Palavras Secretas, written by carioca Rubens Figueiredo. We treat, then, the Brazilian contemporary tale. For we study the writer’s fiction, first we met a critical bibliography about the narrative and a set of diverse texts: reports, articles, press releases, interviews and essays about the author’s work. We discourse characteristics and the compositional elements of each story and noticed that they are full of symbolism and various elements that they are recurrent. Some of these narratives deal with fragmentation of the man who, indeed, is a very striking feature in the actual Brazilian tale. We meet, then, with characters who feel the need to simulate an identity and that, therefore, coexist with a strong inner conflict. Three of the tales include the unlikelihood of that work, and present, therefore, elements that escape from reality. Finally, Rubens Figueiredo, in As Palavras Secretas, presented us narratives rather elongated, unlike what was ordinary in the category of the tale, which it usually consists of a short extension narrative

Recursos coesivos de textos de alunos e professores da escola juruna: análise para uma contribuição ao ensino

A partir da constituição de 1988, em que os indígenas finalmente conseguiram um espaço para a preservação de seus direitos culturais, étnicos e lingüísticos, procurouse pensar em políticas eficazes que os garantissem, e uma delas, sem dúvida, é uma educação escolar indígena de qualidade, que busca se consolidar como “plurilíngüe e intercultural, específica e diferenciada, como necessária, indispensável e um direito”, tal qual vários pesquisadores ressaltam. Este é um passo muito importante, uma vez que, segundo Maher (2005), a educação indígena, desde a colonização até os anos 1970, era um verdadeiro massacre para esses povos. Porque, tomando Grupione (2006), os indígenas foram considerados ignorantes ao longo desse tempo e essas atitudes se justificavam sob o pretexto de “ajudá-los a serem civilizados”. Diante dessas questões, o ensino sobre leitura e produção de texto é fundamental enquanto instrumento para aprendizagem e para preservação cultural indígena e porque se propõe uma análise crítica de fato, cuja correção irá além de maniqueísmos de certo/errado, sempre visando especificidades de cada texto para se conceber quais conhecimentos atenderão melhor as necessidades de cada professor ou aluno, o que permite maior consciência textual e argumentativa. Estes são interesses dos próprios juruna, povo com quem trabalhamos, afirmados em seu Projeto Político Pedagógico, pela mesma idéia de preservação cultural e interação com os não-índios. São os próprios indígenas quem vêem a escola como meio de ascensão social, como afirma Ladeira (2004). Assim, nos posicionamos a favor de projetos de revitalização lingüística que promovam os direitos culturais e de uma educação escolar de qualidade

Esther Tusquets: vozes de mulher em Siete miradas en un mismo paisaje

Este trabalho pretende analisar dois contos – “Los primos” e “Orquesta de verano” –, pertencentes ao quarto livro da escritora espanhola contemporânea Esther Tusquets intitulado Siete miradas en un mismo paisaje. O livro, publicado primeiramente em 1981, não foi traduzido no Brasil e obra e autora são praticamente desconhecidas em nosso país. Este incipiente estudo tem por objetivo, pois, constatar de que maneira as personagens femininas principais constroem-se a partir da narração tomando por base a narratologia de Genette (s/d) e na ginocrítica de Elaine Showalter (1994)

Identificação de categorias retóricas sentenciais em abstracts de Química

Abstracts of scientific articles offer the first contact their readers have with the issues and results presented by the article, thus having a pivotal screening role. Due to their importance, they need to be well written, taking into account their genre-specific rules. Several studies have aimed at describing its particular textual structure, its rubric, though there is still much data to be amassed. The purpose of this work was to analyze a corpus of Chemistry abstracts, seeking the rhetoric categories that structure them in the sentence level and to describe its rubric. In order to do that, we have used lexical and grammatical evidence to categorise the rhetoric role each sentence has. We have found that the expected structure occurs, the main rhetoric focus being the presentation of results in the vast majority of cases. Furthermore, the occurrence of certain categories may depend on the size of the abstract, and certain rhetoric roles are embedded in others, especially the one describing method. The corpus has yet to be expanded to offer further results, two of them being to help non-native writers to better structure the textual level of their works and to build a software of automatic analysis of abstracts

Alfabetização: o texto e o contexto

This paper is the result of a research about literacy concept from official documents, dictionaries and linguists. As an expansion of literacy concept was observed through last century, this investigation searched for an opposite way, in other words, a contraction of the literacy concept in order to clarify its nature and this way to be the starting point for literacy teachers. The best way to literacy happens was also part of the research, then the text was considered like that, since it is a real communicative situation. Besides it should be a meaning system which can be accessed again any time. It would include many kinds of texts – oral or written – as long as they were recorded somehow. The best text form was investigated as well, in other words, the best speech genre for teaching literacy, once there are important elements which should be considered during the literacy acquisition, such as the encouragement to read and to think about the correct writing of the words. In the end, considerations were made concerning the literacy teacher‘s awareness about the context change when the text is used in a scholar context and about the skills acquired by the students which should be transported to other texts in varied contexts

O mito nas Heróides de Ovídio: epístola I (De Penélope a Ulisses)

The objective of this work is to carry out a study about some aspects of the myth in the book Heroides, written by the Latin author Ovid (43 b.C. – 17/18 A.D.). To do so, this study will focus on the Letter I (“From Penelope to Ulysses”) approaching not only the stylistic issues of the elegiac genre, but also, studying them in connection with the epistolary subgenre. Departing from some biographical remarks about the author and from studies made by scholars about this poet, this work seeks to address the myth and certain little explored features of this genre, as the use of rhetoric