Escolhas lexicais e iconicidade textual: uma análise do insólito no romance Sombras de Reis Barbudos

Esta tese dedicou-se a descrever e interpretar a tessitura textual dos fenômenos insólitos no romance Sombras de Reis Barbudos, de José J. Veiga, com base na associação entre a Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal e a Linguística de Córpus . Centrou-se, especificamente, nas marcas linguísticas que representam ideias ou conduzem o intérprete à percepção de que o insólito é construído no texto por meio itens léxicos que constituem pistas icônicas. Merecem especial interesse, sobretudo, os substantivos, que, por serem palavras com alta iconicidade, participam da construção/representação de fenômenos insólitos e criam, por meio da trilha léxica, o itinerário de leitura para o texto-córpus. Para que os resultados fossem significativos, análise apoiou-se nos recursos digitais da Linguística de Córpus (SARDINHA, 2004; 2009), que possibilitaram realizar uma pesquisa baseada em um córpus. A utilização da Linguística de Córpus como metodologia permitiu levantar, quantificar e tabular os signos que corroboram com a compreensão da incongruência e da iconicidade lexical dos fenômenos insólitos em um texto literário, identificando os substantivos-nódulos e seus colocados, para avaliá-los quanto à incompatibilidade das escolhas lexicais realizadas por José J. Veiga em relação às estruturas lexicogramaticais da Língua Portuguesa. Fundamentou-se a discussão no insólito como categoria essencial do fantástico modal (BESSIÈRE, 2009; COVIZZI, 1978, FURTADO, s.d.; PRADA OROPREZA, 2006); na Semiótica de extração peirceana, com enfoque na Teoria da Iconicidade Verbal (SIMÕES, 2007,2009) e na colocação lexical (BÉNJOINT, 1994; SINCLAIR, 1987, 1991, 2004; TAGNIN, 1989). A tese demonstra que a incongruência e a iconicidade lexical são identificadas a partir da seleção vocabular obtida pelo processamento digital e pelo confronto com o Córpus do Português. A análise comprova que os substantivos, como categorias linguísticas caracterizáveis semanticamente, têm a função designatória ou de nomeação na arquitetura de um texto em que se manifesta o insólito. Revela também que a incongruência lexical constitui-se em uma chave para a construção do ilógico, mágico, fantástico, misterioso, sobrenatural, irreal e suprarreal no texto-córpus

Indexação textual no Sistema de Base de Dados da Pesquisa Agropecuária.

Bases de dados da pesquisa agropecuária. Indexação textual com o Lucene. Lucene. Lucene no sistema das bases de dados da pesquisa agropecuária. Comparação de desempenho infra-estrutura de hardware e software. Conjunto de consultas testes e resultados. Ponderações. Nova BDPA.

Pequeno manual para escrita de artigos científicos: estrutura textual, dicas e compêndio gramatical.

Introdução. Estrutura textual. Recursos linguísticos. Tópicos gramaticais. relação autor-leitor. Refacção textual.

Indexação textual usando Sistemas Gerenciadores de Banco de Dados livres.

2005

Qualifying Cosmopolitanism? Solidarity, Criticism, and Michael Walzer's 'View from the Cave'

Erskine, Toni, 'Qualifying Cosmopolitanism? Solidarity, Criticism, and Michael Walzer's 'View from the Cave'', International Politics (2007) 44(1) pp.125-149 RAE2008

Combining Textual and Visual Cues for Content-based Image Retrieval on the World Wide Web

Some WWW image engines allow the user to form a query in terms of text keywords. To build the image index, keywords are extracted heuristically from HTML documents containing each image, and/or from the image URL and file headers. Unfortunately, text-based image engines have merely retro-fitted standard SQL database query methods, and it is difficult to include images cues within such a framework. On the other hand, visual statistics (e.g., color histograms) are often insufficient for helping users find desired images in a vast WWW index. By truly unifying textual and visual statistics, one would expect to get better results than either used separately. In this paper, we propose an approach that allows the combination of visual statistics with textual statistics in the vector space representation commonly used in query by image content systems. Text statistics are captured in vector form using latent semantic indexing (LSI). The LSI index for an HTML document is then associated with each of the images contained therein. Visual statistics (e.g., color, orientedness) are also computed for each image. The LSI and visual statistic vectors are then combined into a single index vector that can be used for content-based search of the resulting image database. By using an integrated approach, we are able to take advantage of possible statistical couplings between the topic of the document (latent semantic content) and the contents of images (visual statistics). This allows improved performance in conducting content-based search. This approach has been implemented in a WWW image search engine prototype.

Behind the paravent: a study of Konrad Bayer's dramatic texts

This thesis is a study of Konrad Bayer's dramatic texts. It has evolved out of various attempts to read those texts, some filed and some more successful. It does not claim to be authoritative or complete, since the nature of Bayer's texts, as will become clear in the course of the ensuing chapters, means that they resist such an interpretation. To accept this was an important prerequisite for the writing of this thesis, but a difficult one to fulfill because for the Bayer commentator it constitutes a certain acceptance of defeat even before one begins. Chapter 1 will begin by providing some introductory information about Konrad Bayer, including details of his life and his membership of the Wiener Gruppe, a formative phase in his development as a writer. It will also consider the historical and cultural climate of 1950s Austria that provided the backdrop for Bayer's literary work. The phenomenon of the Wiener Gruppe will then be examined against the background of preceding experimental movements, for the purpose of situating Bayer's work historically and artistically. The aim of this historical and artistic survey is to prepare for the confrontation with Bayer's texts that makes up the other chapters of the thesis. Chapter 2 will constitute a close textual study of one of Bayer's dramatic texts using criteria from the field of text linguistics. Such a study will offer an entry point into Bayer's texts and will supply material which will form the basis for the interpretative investigations of the chapters that follow it. Chapter 3 will consider the influence of language and the individual. In chapter 4 the figure of the Lion of Belfort, a recurring figure in Bayer's dramatic texts, is discussed. The final chapter of this thesis will examine the recurring motifs of violence and cannibalism and will consider them in terms of the findings of preceding chapters.

Tennyson and youth

This paper will examine the prominence of Alfred Tennyson's work in several textual accounts of youth penned between 1892 and the present day, by writers including T. S. Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, J. M. Coetzee, William Faulkner and Andrew Motion. The young Woolf broke in her new pens by copying out Tennyson's 'Tithonus'; Eliot had a taste for Tennyson's 'martial and sanguinary poetry; as a young man. Kingsley Amis was singular among his contemporaries precisely because he admired the work of a poet considered outdated, and a reference for Modernist verse over that of Tennyson is seen as a sign of sophistication (however ironically presented) in the writings of people as diverse as Auden, Motion and Coetzee. [From the Author]

Jung as a writer

Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung’s writing in order to shed new light on his psychology and its relationship with literature as a cultural practice. Jung employed literary devices throughout his writing, including direct and indirect argument, anecdote, fantasy, myth, epic, textual analysis and metaphor. Susan Rowland examines Jung’s use of literary techniques in several of his works, including Anima and Animus, On the Nature of the Psyche, Psychology and Alchemy and Synchronicity and describes Jung’s need for literature in order to capture in writing his ideas about the unconscious. Jung as a Writer succeeds in demonstrating Jung’s contribution to literary and cultural theory in autobiography, gender studies, postmodernism, feminism, deconstruction and hermeneutics and concludes by giving a new culturally-orientated Jungian criticism. The application of literary theory to Jung’s works provides a new perspective on Jungian Psychology that will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of Jung, Psychoanalysis, literary theory and cultural studies. [From the Publisher]

Estudio de la satisfacción de los estudiantes de Interpretación Textual de la Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba

El estudio de la satisfacción de los estudiantes es fundamental para conocer los errores y aciertos de una institución educativa superior con el fin de poner en práctica estrategias que conduzcan a una mejora en la calidad de su enseñanza. Con este fin, en este artículo hemos evaluado el grado de satisfacción de los estudiantes de Interpretación Textual de la Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba “Miguel Salcedo Hierro”. Alejándonos de los modelos habituales de medir la satisfacción, principalmente de carácter cuantitativo, hemos utilizado como eje metodológico la Teoría Fundamentada en Datos, y como técnicas, la entrevista comprehensiva de Kaufmann y los grupos de discusión. Los resultados han sido muy positivos, pues han mostrado que estos estudiantes tienen un alto nivel de satisfacción, lo que resulta muy valioso para conocer la calidad de esta enseñanza en el momento presente, así como para desarrollar planes específicos que conduzcan a su mejora en el futuro cercano.