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This paper aims at bringing a historical background of studies related to bilingualism in the southern region of Brazil, a country in which it is possible to find several languages in contact. Moreover, it mentions some language policies for immigrants in this country. The research concludes that, from the cognitive perspective, there is no disadvantage in the processing by bilingual individuals if compared to monolinguals and that bilingualism should be encouraged in the country through specific language policies so that the language and the culture of peoples do not get lost.

In this work, we present a study on the process of palatalization of the coronal sibilant in coda based on data from a read corpus. The data were collected in the locality of Ribeirão da Ilha, Florianópolis. The method used to choose the informants was stratified random, involving a total of 24 people. Our corpus was assembled to cover diverse structural contexts, totaling 68 sentences. With a focus on Laovian sociolinguistics and Trait Geometry Phonology, we analyze the role of structural and social variables in the phenomenon. In addition, we compared the results about palatalization with an earlier study, done in the same locality with a spontaneous speech corpus (Brescancini, 1996), in order to verify to what extent the style question affects the phenomenon. Our results showed that the contexts in which there was retraction and elevation of the body of the tongue (dorsal consonants and labial and dorsal vowels) favored the use of the palate-alveolar variant. The results referring to social variables point to an indication of external influences in the sense of non-palatalization, considering that Florianópolis has been receiving many people from other cities and states. Comparison with the spontaneous speech study showed that the more formal style (read corpus) affects the application of the rule, especially among the more educated women.

Paper on the history of popular literature.

The purpose of this text is to show that the phenotype of epenthesis in words of foreign origin is a result of perception. In this sense, the Portuguese speaker will shape words that are not phonetically habitual in order to adapt them to his syllabic system. It is hypothesized that the speaker's perception of the syllabic structure in his / her language is a key element in the formation of interpretive inferences regarding the pronunciation of foreignisms, since in this process the speaker unites the acquired (phonological) information In contact with his mother tongue to those of the foreign language, creating an illusory vowel so that the syllabic mold he knows is filled. It is for this reason that status, for example, can be pronounced with the insertion of the epenthetic vowel as in [is'tatus].

Jorge Luis Borges mentioned that he always considered writing a study of Kafka and his precursors, what he did when he wrote an essay entitled “Kafka and his precursors” published in Selected non-fictions. In order to accomplish this the Argentinean writer referred that he had to spend a little time with Kafka and because of that he could recognize “his voice, or his habits, in the texts of various literatures and various ages.” Spending a little time with Borges made me consider writing an essay about the issues he argues there. I named these issues as “voices” once like Borges I could recognize some of them in his text. I understand that these issues trace the structure in which I want to address the discussion about some questions from the field of Literary Studies, more specifically from the area of Literary History such as the debate about canon. My essay aims to propose the idea of “precursor” as a concept to (re)think the notion of literary canon.

The historiography traces left by the first studies of the Brazilian literature has been served as a reference source or as a starting point for later critics who has used these supplies to correct them, or even to contribute to his thesis. Mentioned throughout history by different authors, these sources have been perpetuated over time and confirmed the formation of national literary canon.

Presentation of the issue Language and cognition: Interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary relations

Presentation of the Literature issue on the formation of the novel of introspection in Brazil.

"Coragem" by Roger Cardús Juvé.

The present article has to purpose research a construction of a brazialian literature history based in some parts no literary. Therefore, the romanticism period some works of foreign authors, an example, Ferdinand Denis Almeida Garret, who prescribe a Brazilian literature rooted in issues such as nature and ethnic groups. After Brazilian’s independence, a lot of authors thought the literature that represents a new nation. After all, will be tried identify the institutionalization of such external criteria in the literature critical evaluations by Alfredo Bosi, the book concise history of Brazilian literature on all the novels of introspection of the 1930's.

Expedient v. 2, n. 1 (2009)

Our work runs over the realization of the fricatives /s/ and /z/ on the right edge of morphemes on the Brazilian portuguese, especially on the gaucho dialect, in reference to the model of the Standard Optimality Theory. The data we have considered refer mainly to prefixes, although, the statements concluded here do not limit themselves only to this morphological boundary, but also to the boundaries of other morphemes, including words. Our proposal takes as a foundation the hypothesis that the underlying representation of the fricative is /z/. Giving account of the distinct realization of this fricative on the surface are the context-sensitive markedness constraints *[s] [+cons,+voz] and *voiced-coda and the faithfulness constraint Ident-IO ranked in this specific order. The analysis shows that it is possible to observe this aspect of the phonology of the PB though the standard Optimality Theory.

This paper is the result of maturation of a research project that studies the mitopoéticas interpreted by accountants of "cause" and the island of assombrações João Pilatos - Ananindeua Pa -. Perceived as subjects of meanings of habitats, of diffuse offers free choices and, thus, subject border. Stories such as curupira rapist, show through the imagery of social actors, their negotiations with the daily life. These cultural landscapes under the gaze of epistemology really sensitive to differences, demystifying exotic visions, reductionist and arrogant on the issue.

Joaquim Norberto’s, Brasileiras célebres, integrates our historiography as a transitional work, in a sense that this text constitutes a pioneer place to express the female representation. It furnishes the visibility to life and production of some notorious women from the eighteen hundreds, as well as it gives ratification to effective values and customs on the patriarchal society of that century. To analyze and to discuss the textual process of this historiographer, yet perceiving the place his work occupy in the milieu of historiography tradition in Brazil, are the primordial aims of this present essay.

In this paper, we present a survey of the patterns of verb vowel harmony in the dictionarized verbs of Brazilian Portuguese. We also present the results of an empirical study on the productivity and the transparency of this process, which had as its basis our survey of dictionarized patterns.

Review of HAYES, Bruce. Introdutory Phonology. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

This work have as objective to discuss the reaseon which conduct to the silence and omission of the erotic production Bernardo Guimarães’, by literary historiography. Leaving of the hypothesis which the erotic production of this poet been ignored and excluded about to margins of the literary system because is elaborated through of the a language loweres, with intention of the loer the myths and cause the laughter, endowed of the features which interlard in frontier between the pornographic and erotic.

According to theories developed by Eric J. Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson, Michel Foucault, Hugo Achugar, Flávio Kothe, the aim of this study is to verify that in Brazil, during the 19th century, the speech of invention of the nation, homogenizer of identities, blot voices and images of afrobrazilians, in order to maintain the nationalist project. Written by Ferdinand Denis and Gonçalves de Magalhães, the texts analyzed found the Historiography of Brazilian Literature, and, as important source of research, spread out the trace of exclusion.

The present article is about Gregório de Mattos, the baroque poet, and aims at considering that his insertion in the literary canon and the criteria used to valorize his poetry might be strictly connected to the place of production of his discourse, the way he expressed his themes, and his insertion – his social role - in the context of his time. In my perspective these occurrences are directly related to the ideological positions of the historians of literature and the literary criticism, whose social values and cultural proposals constituted an array of ideas as diverse as the work of the poet from Bahia. Keywords: Gregório de Mattos; History of Brazilian Literature; Literary Criticism; text and context.

Paper on Brazilian literature history.