Funções interacionais na sala de aula: da subordinação adverbial à subordinação discursiva

Taking into account the treatment offered to adverbial subordination in teaching and learning Portuguese, this article presents contributions from Functional Discourse Grammar concerning clausal (in)dependency and the acceptance of Discourse Subordination in the systematization of adverbial relation in teaching contexts.

Incompletudes da abordagem tradicional e suas implicações no ensino/aprendizagem da língua: um recorte sobre as relações de coordenação e subordinação nos períodos compostos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Subordinação discursiva no português à luz da gramática discursivo-funcional

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Una gramática descriptiva del chabacano de Ternate

This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of Ternate Chabacano, a Spanish-lexifier Creole spoken by 3.000 people in the town of Ternate, Philippines. The dissertation offers an analysis of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic system of the language. It includes an overview of the historical background, the current situation of the speech community and a collection of annotated texts. Ternate Chabacano shares many characteristics with its main adstrate language Tagalog as well as the dialectal varieties of Spanish. At present, English also exerts an influence, nevertheless mainly affecting its lexicon. The description offered is based on fieldwork conducted in Ternate. Spoken language collected through thematic interviews forms the main type of the material analysed. Information regarding the informants and text types is included in the examples. Ternate Chabacano has a five-vowel system and 17 consonant phonemes. The morphology of the language is largely isolating. Clitics are used extensively for expressing adverbial relations. The verbal system is based on the preverbal markers that express the category of tense, modality and aspect, among which aspect is the main dimension. Complex predicates and verbal chains are used in order to further distinguish aspect and modality, as well as changes of voice and valency. Intransitive verbs express motion, states, and reflexive actions, even though the majority of verbs can occur in both intransitive and transitive clauses. Ternate Chabacano is a nominative-accusative type language but the typological configuration of the Philippine languages influences the marking of its constituents. A case in point is constituted by the nominal determination system. The basic constituent order in a clause is VSO. Equative and attibutive clauses are formed by juxtaposition while the locative clauses feature a copula. Indefinite terms are expressed through existential constructions. The negation of existential clauses differs from standard negation but both are intensified in the same way. In spoken discourse, tag-questions are common. Pragmatic elements and social formulas reflect largely the corresponding Tagalog expressions. Coordination and subordination occur typically without overt markers but a variety of markers exists for expressing different relations, especially those made explicit by adverbial clauses. Verbal chains form a continuum from serial verbs to complementation and ultimately to coordination.

Cohésion modale et subordination : Le conditionnel et le jussif finnois au miroir de la valeur sémantique et discursive du subjonctif français

Modal cohesion and subordination. The Finnish conditional and jussive moods in comparison to the French subjunctive This study examines verb moods in subordinate clauses in French and Finnish. The first part of the analysis deals with the syntax and semantics of the French subjunctive, mood occurring mostly in subordinate positions. The second part investigates Finnish verb moods. Although subordinate positions in Finnish grammar have no special finite verb form, certain uses of Finnish verb moods have been compared to those of subjunctives and conjunctives in other languages. The present study focuses on the subordinate uses of the Finnish conditional and jussive (i.e. the third person singular and plural of the imperative mood). The third part of the analysis discusses the functions of subordinate moods in contexts beyond complex sentences. The data used for the analysis include 1834 complex sentences gathered from newspapers, online discussion groups and blog texts, as well as audio-recorded interviews and conversations. The data thus consist of both written and oral texts as well as standard and non-standard variants. The analysis shows that the French subjunctive codes theoretical modality. The subjunctive does not determine the temporal and modal meaning of the event, but displays the event as virtual. In a complex sentence, the main clause determines the temporal and modal space within which the event coded by the subjunctive clause is interpreted. The subjunctive explicitly indicates that the space constructed in the main clause extends its scope over the subordinate clause. The subjunctive can therefore serve as a means for creating modal cohesion in the discourse. The Finnish conditional shares the function of making explicit the modal link between the components of a complex construction with the French subjunctive, but the two moods differ in their semantics. The conditional codes future time and can therefore occur only in non-factual or counterfactual contexts, whereas the event expressed by French subjunctive clauses can also be interpreted as realized. Such is the case when, for instance, generic and habitual meaning is involved. The Finnish jussive mood is used in a relatively limited number of subordinate clause types, but in these contexts its modal meaning is strikingly close to that of the French subjunctive. The permissive meaning, typical of the jussive in main clause positions, is modified in complex sentences so that it entails inter-clausal relation, namely concession. Like the French subjunctive, the jussive codes theoretical modal meaning with no implication of the truth value of the proposition. Finally, the analysis shows that verb moods mark modal cohesion, not only on the syntagmatic level (namely in complexe sentences), but also on the paradigmatic axis of discourse in order to create semantic links over entire segments of talk. In this study, the subjunctive thus appears, not as an empty category without function, as it is sometimes described, but as an open form that conveys the temporal and modal meanings emerging from the context.

Mas e embora: uma descrição morfossintática e semântico-pragmática

Esta dissertação é o resultado de dois anos de estudo e de pesquisa dedicados à formação, à estrutura e ao funcionamento da língua portuguesa. A inconformidade com o tratamento um tanto superficial que os compêndios gramaticais prescritivos, sobretudo os escolares, têm dado à classificação das conjunções coordenativas adversativas e das subordinativas adverbiais concessivas e, por conseguinte, das orações em que elas se inserem, foi a motivação e é o que justifica a escolha do tema. Essa maneira de abordar a questão tem misturado descrições sintáticas com semânticas, sem, muitas vezes, levar em consideração a aplicabilidade e a pertinência de uma ou de outra oração no discurso. Dessa forma, esta dissertação se propõe a descrever os comportamentos morfossintáticos e semântico- -pragmáticos dos períodos formados com as conjunções mas e embora à luz da semântica enunciativa, e a averiguar até que ponto a vagueza de abordagem desse tema tem refletido na formação daqueles que têm a língua portuguesa como língua materna no Brasil. Para tanto, o trabalho apresenta a seguinte estrutura: num primeiro momento, serão considerados a metodologia usada para a feitura do trabalho e os pressupostos teóricos que melhor fundamentam-no. A teoria está dividida em três momentos, a saber, o enfoque dado pela tradição gramatical, o enfoque dado pela linguística à noção de coordenação e de subordinação, e o enfoque dado pela semântica enunciativa às conjunções mas e embora. Num segundo momento, serão explanadas as análises feitas dos corpora presentes no texto: um para corroborar as ideias presentes em um dos capítulos teóricos (corpus de textos de opinião); e outro para averiguar se a superficialidade da abordagem do tema ao longo do tempo tem afetado na formação de leitores e escritores proficientes em língua portuguesa (corpus de transcrição). A análise do segundo corpus o corpus de transcrição, em que pessoas de diferentes níveis de estudo foram testadas no que tange ao conhecimento acerca da transformação de períodos compostos por coordenação adversativa em subordinação adverbial concessiva e vice-versa; além de se descobrir se não iniciariam uma frase com a conjunção adversativa mas tem capítulo à parte e revelará o que não é tão difícil de pressupor: 67,4% das frases transcritas revelam o desconhecimento que as pessoas têm acerca da diferença morfossintática e semântico-pragmática de períodos formados pelas conjunções adversativa e concessiva, mas e embora, respectivamente

Two Views of ‘Subordination’: the Personal Scope of Employment Discrimination Law in Jivraj v Hashwani

In Jivraj v Hashwani, the Supreme Court considered what requirements are necessary for a relationship to be considered as an employment relationship for the purposes of determining the scope of domestic employment discrimination law. The Court held that an element of subordination was necessary for the relationship to be considered employment under a contract personally to do work. This article discusses what the Court in Jivraj meant by this requirement, contrasting two differing views of subordination. It examines some implications of the decision for the relationship between employment law and anti-discrimination law, and for recent debates on the scope of employment law more generally.

Exploring domination and subordination in high school physical education /

This is a critical qualitative inquiry into secondary school students' experiences of power relations within physical activity and physical education settings. More specifically the study examines the reproduction ofpower relations through the use of domination and subordination in physical activity and physical education. This study will attempt to understand power relations that take place between and among students and between teachers and students and how certain sports or activities reinforce power relationships within the gymnasium. Thirty eight first and second year university students completed a questionnaire which asked them to reflect upon their high school physical education experiences. Feedback fi*om the questionnaires described that highly skilled male students benefit the most fi-om high school physical education and receive more power and privilege when compared to lesser skilled students.

Les contrats de performance et les universités québécoises : une orchestration étatique de la subordination du champ universitaire aux règles du jeu économique

Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l’obtention du grade de maître ès sciences (M.Sc.) en sociologie

L'enchaînement de phrases par coordination et par subordination à l'écrit chez les élèves de première secondaire : mise à l'essai d'une séquence didactique

Ce mémoire de maîtrise propose une séquence didactique travaillant l’enchaînement de phrases par subordination et coordination en vue de favoriser le transfert de connaissances grammaticales en situation de production écrite. Nous avons d’abord fait ressortir que les élèves apprennent et revoient diverses règles de grammaire, mais qu’ils ont une grande difficulté à transférer ces connaissances en contexte d’écriture. Plusieurs chercheurs soulignent la pertinence de décloisonner l’enseignement de la grammaire et de l’écriture (Paret, 1992; Chartrand, 2003; Bilodeau, 2005) pour favoriser le transfert, notamment au moyen de la démarche active de découverte (Chartrand, 1996). Nous nous sommes intéressée à la syntaxe de la phrase, plus précisément à la construction de phrases complexes par enchaînement. Nous considérons les notions grammaticales qui en découlent difficiles pour plusieurs élèves et nous constatons que cet enseignement se fait peu fréquemment et souvent de manière magistrale, sans travailler l’écriture en parallèle. Nous avons donc élaboré une séquence didactique travaillant ces concepts grammaticaux, tout en ayant en tête de favoriser le transfert des notions grammaticales vers un contexte d’écriture. Nous avons ensuite mis à l’essai cette séquence dans un groupe de première secondaire et avons vérifié son efficacité à l’aide d’un prétest et d’un posttest (production écrite). Nous avons pu constater que la séquence didactique expérimentée dans le cadre de ce mémoire produit de bons résultats. Il y a une amélioration notable dans les enchaînements de phrases dans les textes produits par les élèves. Par contre, nous n’avons pas pu conclure que ceux-ci étaient significatifs d’un point de vue statistique. La séquence didactique semble toutefois aider les élèves, même les plus faibles, puisque les entretiens métagraphiques montrent qu’ils ont meilleure compréhension des enchaînements de phrases.

Procedural Meaning Explicatures in the Development of New Subordination Strategies in Romance

The sociocultural changes that led to the genesis of Romance languages widened the gap between oral and written patterns, which display different discoursive and linguistic devices. In early documents, discoursive implicatures connecting propositions were not generally codified, so that the reader should furnish the correct interpretation according to his own perception of real facts; which can still be attested in current oral utterances. Once Romance languages had undergone several levelling processes which concluded in the first standardizations, implicatures became explicatures and were syntactically codified by means of univocal new complex conjunctions. As a consequence of the emergence of these new subordination strategies, a freer distribution of the information conveyed by the utterances is allowed. The success of complex structural patterns ran alongside of the genesis of new narrative genres and the generalization of a learned rhetoric. Both facts are a spontaneous effect of new approaches to the act of reading. Ancient texts were written to be read to a wide audience, whereas those printed by the end of the XV th century were conceived to be read quietly, in a low voice, by a private reader. The goal of this paper is twofold, since we will show that: a) The development of new complex conjunctions through the history of Romance languages accommodates to four structural patterns that range from parataxis to hypotaxis. b) This development is a reflex of the well known grammaticalization path from discourse to syntax that implies the codification of discoursive strategies (Givón 2 1979, Sperber and Wilson 1986, Carston 1988, Grice 1989, Bach 1994, Blackemore 2002, among others]

Why an ESM programme could be a kiss of death: Recovery values and subordination. CEPS Commentary, 27 June 2012

Spain, needing a bailout for its banks, was granted a vague promise by EZ leaders for up to €100 billion. The details remain obscure, yet they matter enormously. This column argues that the so-called ‘subordination effect’ of fresh official lending could put Spain on the slippery road to ruin. It argues that if sovereign bonds must be bought, this should be done in the secondary market which, would be on an equal footing with private investors and thus avoid the subordination trap.