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The different syntactic structures of Portuguese and their use
(DELTA Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 2022) [Artigo]The aim of this study is to present the diff erent syntactic structures of Portuguese from a Functional Discourse Grammar perspective. To this end, the study uses a corpus that includes texts from diff erent varieties of ... -
Multi-functionality of mesmo: Relationship between function and morphosyntactic ordering
(Gragoata-uff, 2022) [Artigo]This study investigates the use of mesmo in Brazilian Portuguese, taking as theoretical support Functional Discourse Grammar, developed by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008). The proposal consists of investigating the ... -
From description to teaching of relative clauses: The perspective of text books in Portuguese
(Linguistica, 2014) [Artigo]This paper aims at investigating the treatment given to relative clauses by elementary school text books, evidencing how the teaching of grammar is proposed in the teacher's books. As a consequence, this study also intends ... -
Cleft constructions and similar structures: Contrast, focus and emphasis
(Linguistica, 2012) [Artigo]This paper deals with so called cleft constructions and other similar structures in eight Portuguese varieties, aiming to show that the formal differences correspond to different functional strategies used by the Speaker ... -
Transparency and opacity in the choice of relativization strategies in Portuguese
(Linguistica, 2012) [Artigo]This paper aims at examining the hypothesis that the choice among the different strategies of relativization available in the Portuguese grammar is motivated by a lesser or greater degree of transparency between form and ... -
Prosodization Of Prepositional Clitics And Prosodic Words In Brazilian Portuguese: Investigation Of Phonetic Cues
(Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2021) [Artigo]In this paper, syllable duration (Vowel-to-Vowel unit) and F0 variation are analyzed as cues to distinguish the prosodization of prepositional clitic-host sequence from a syllable within a prosodic word in Brazilian ... -
'I will not become an Internet meme': Visual-verbal textualization process in the study of the power and resistance in Brazil
(Acta Scientiarum Language and Culture, 2018) [Artigo]In this article, we analyze a delimited corpus of Internet memes showcasing Brazilian President Michel Temer. The theoretical framework is based on literacy studies, digital information and communication technology usage ... -
New advertising campaigns for women: Break or more of the same?
(Discurso y Sociedad, 2018) [Artigo]This paper analyzes a recent advertising piece targeted on women seeking to verify how the dialogue with the discourse against the beauty imperative is established. To this end, an interdisciplinary point of view is adopted, ... -
Prosodic phrasing and intonation in neutral and subject-narrow-focus sentences of Brazilian Portuguese
(Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008, 2008) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]This work aims at discussing the relationship between prosodic phrasing and intonation structure associated with neutral and subject-narrow-focus sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The sentences were analyzed in terms ... -
The second person reference in the Rio Branco dialect
(Acta Scientiarum Language and Culture, 2021) [Artigo]A variable that runs through almost all Brazilian Portuguese dialects is the alternation between the pronouns ‘tu’ and ‘você’ to refer to the interlocutor, a phenomenon that has been addressed in by researchers from different ... -
A categoria de aspecto em algumas línguas indígenas do Brasil
(Acta Scientiarum Language and Culture, 2017) [Artigo]The aim of the paper is to analyze, from the Functional Discourse Grammar perspective, FDG (Hengeveld and Mackenzie, 2008), the notions of aspect in the indigenous languages of the families Arawak (Kinikinau), Jê (Parkatejê, ... -
Resumo Acadêmico: uma experiência mediativa com o gênero na formação docente inicial
(Acta Scientiarum Language and Culture, 2014) [Artigo]Current research deals with the constitution of writing in initial teacher training when employing the Academic Summary genre. The mediation process and the tools involved are focused. Analysis is based on the concepts of ... -
The invisible blackness of Harryette Mullen's poetry: Writing, miscegenation, and what remains to be seen
(Revista de Letras, 2012) [Artigo]This essay addresses the poetics of Harryette Mullen, an awarded African-American female poet whose work questions the boundaries that shape the expectations for accessible intelligibility in African-American literature. ... -
O acaso, o poeta e a re-visão da ciência no límen do milênio
(Revista de Letras, 2010) [Resenha]The second part of the poem A Máquina do Mundo Repensada, from Haroldo de Campos (2000), is very inventive as it brings up, to the center of this text, composed in terza rima, the science as the poetic message protagonist. ... -
The organization of violence in Apuleius' The Golden Ass
(Agora-estudos Classicos Em Debate, 2022) [Artigo]In this article, we present a reflection on the typology of violence expressed in The Golden Ass, by Apuleius. We give special importance to the means by which this phenomenon is organized, namely, distributing itself, on ... -
The Expression of the Pronominal Subject in the Spoken Spanish of the Colombian Caribbean
(Cuadernos De Linguistica Hispanica, 2021) [Artigo]This paper aims to analyze the sociolinguistic conditioning factors that motivate the expression of the pronominal subject in the Spanish spoken in the Colombian Caribbean. The sample consisted of recordings of 18 informants ... -
INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR DOUGLAS ALTAMIRO CONSOLO: language teaching, assessment and teacher training
(Revista De Letras Norte@mentos, 2021) [Editorial] -
The Representation of Torture in Two Short-Stories by Julio Cesar Monteiro Martins: O Metodo and A Posicao
(Literatura E Autoritarismo, 2020) [Artigo]In the short stories O metodo and A posicao, produced in the 70's, the writer Julio Cesar Monteiro Martins (1955-2014) explores the theme of torture, denouncing it as a trivialized practice in the repressive horizon created ... -
DIACHRONIC VARIATION OF LINGUISTIC TRANSPARENCY IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: THE ROLE OF THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN THE PRONOMINAL EXPRESSION OF SUBJECT ARGUMENT
(Cadernos De Estudos Linguisticos, 2021) [Artigo]In this paper, we analyze the diachronic variation of linguistic transparency in Brazilian Portuguese. The analysis focuses on the part of the morphosyntactic system that deals with the expression of subject argument through ... -
SINTAGMAS NOMINAIS DESCONTÍNUOS
(Alfa: Revista de Linguística (São José do Rio Preto), 2021) [Artigo]O fenômeno sobre o qual este trabalho se debruça é o sintagma nominal (Np) que apresenta ordem não canônica de suas partes constituintes, denominado “descontínuo” por Keizer (2007). A análise e a descrição da descontinuidade ...