A modalização como estratégia argumentativa em textos de vestibulandos

In this work, the argumentative strategies construction in university entrance examinations texts is analyzed. The study intended to present, through the analyzed occurrences in the corpus, the discursive strategies use for the argumentation construction, observing the different lexicalization forms and the effects that these strategies produced for the intended meaning construction. Aiming to analyze the modalization via texts written by candidates for the UFRN entrance examination, the relations between this category and the resources used for the argumentative guidance of the text were highlighted. Conceived as a speaker argumentative strategy to express his/her relationship with the proposition content which enunciates, the modalization is, thus, one of the linguistic expression form used for the attainment of intended meaning effects in the argumentation construction. In order to substantiate the research, the theoretical assumptions adopted were the propositions which deal with this linguistic category, guiding it to a pragmatic-semantic perspective as well as a discursive-semantic one. Hence, Neves ( 1996, 2006), Koch ( 2000, 2002), Cervoni ( 1989), Bronkart (1999) and Castilho; Morais de Castilho (1996) studies, among others founded this work. Afterwards, a contextualized analysis of the modalized statements, taking into account all the set of elements implied on the argumentation construction, was carried out. The research, which had a strict qualitative character, revealed that the candidates make use of modalization to express commitment or dissociation as regards the statement which they produce; to obtain credibility and provide more authority to their arguments, thus avoiding them of being contested; to impose their arguments as real ones and acquire acceptance of the interlocutor; to lessen the proposition content and disguise the knowledge source; to comment the enunciation and attribute the discourse to another sender; to establish a dialogic relation with the interlocutor. In addition to offering support for new investigations, the research also aims to contribute for the mother tongue teaching, emphasizing the need of a focus which provides special attention to the written language functioning and its application diversity. In this work, the argumentative strategies construction in university entrance examinations texts is analyzed. The study intended to present, through the analyzed occurrences in the corpus, the discursive strategies use for the argumentation construction, observing the different lexicalization forms and the effects that these strategies produced for the intended meaning construction. Aiming to analyze the modalization via texts written by candidates for the UFRN entrance examination, the relations between this category and the resources used for the argumentative guidance of the text were highlighted. Conceived as a speaker argumentative strategy to express his/her relationship with the proposition content which enunciates, the modalization is, thus, one of the linguistic expression form used for the attainment of intended meaning effects in the argumentation construction. In order to substantiate the research, the theoretical assumptions adopted were the propositions which deal with this linguistic category, guiding it to a pragmatic-semantic perspective as well as a discursive-semantic one. Hence, Neves ( 1996, 2006), Koch ( 2000, 2002), Cervoni ( 1989), Bronkart (1999) and Castilho; Morais de Castilho (1996) studies, among others founded this work. Afterwards, a contextualized analysis of the modalized statements, taking into account all the set of elements implied on the argumentation construction, was carried out. The research, which had a strict qualitative character, revealed that the candidates make use of modalization to express commitment or dissociation as regards the statement which they produce; to obtain credibility and provide more authority to their arguments, thus avoiding them of being contested; to impose their arguments as real ones and acquire acceptance of the interlocutor; to lessen the proposition content and disguise the knowledge source; to comment the enunciation and attribute the discourse to another sender; to establish a dialogic relation with the interlocutor. In addition to offering support for new investigations, the research also aims to contribute for the mother tongue teaching, emphasizing the need of a focus which provides special attention to the written language functioning and its application diversity

A relação fala/escrita do texto radiofônico

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Delimitação e alinhamento de conceitos lexicalizados no inglês norte-americano e no português brasileiro

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

As construções causativas em português

Fenômeno comum às diversas línguas do mundo, a expressão da causatividade varia de uma para outra, Em lermos semânticos, pode-se definir uma ''situação causativa'' como a relação entre um evento-causa e um evento-efeito, de tal forma que a ocorrência do segundo é inteiramente dependente do primeiro. Este trabalho se limita a uma análise do problema na língua portuguesa, buscando: (i) descrever os padrões morfológicos e sintáticos que o português utiliza para representar a causatividade; fiij estabelecer parâmetros sintáticos e/ou semânticos que definem a relação entre elementos em construção causativa; (iii) examinar aspectos semântico-pragmáticos da causatividade.

Estruturas frásicas com predicação recessiva em português

A recessividade é entendida como um traço que leva a frase a perde um argumento. É proposta uma divisão das construções recessivas, diversa da de Tesnière, além de se considerar uma maior variedade de processos, quais sejam: a recessividade por intrasitivação, a recessividade pronominalização e a recessividade por lexicalização.

Trajetórias de mudança dos predicados acabar, acontecer e começar sob perspectiva discursivo-funcional

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS: REPRESENTATIONS OF CRIMINALITY AND THE ROLE OF STATE IN ITS FIGHT IN BRAZILIAN PRESS

The present paper aims at analyzing the representation of criminality and the government's action to fight crime trough the study of the discursive role of referenciation as a lexicalization process and the theoretical and methodological procedures of Critical Discourse Analysis developed by van Dijk. For that reason, we analyzed two articles on criminality, published in 2007 by two magazines: Veja and Carta Capital. The analysis of these articles revealed two kinds of positioning about crime and its combat, based on visions about the event from different social groups.