Repositório RCAAP

Paper on the erasure of orality in the historiography of Brazilian literature.

The aim of this work is to analyze the process of semivocalization of lateral liquid consonants, prevocalic position through a bibliographic review of the subject. First, these consonants are characterized and justifications for the appearance of the process which make them being released as glides. Afterwards, this phenomenon is discussed in the area of Language Acquisition and the area of Linguistic Variation. Thus, it was taken concepts from Câmara Jr (1953 and 1987), Hernandorena (1988, 1990 and 2001), Azambuja (1998), Silva (2003) e Aragão (1999). Based on these authors, among others, it can be said that, in Language Acquisition, semivocalization is a natural stage of liquids acquisition, due to the articulation complexity of this kind of consonant. In Linguistic Variation, semivocalization involves two processes: despalatalização and iotização, which are referred only to the consonant //. Besides that, in the recent phase of our language, the tendency of some communities is the opposite process of the evolution presented from Latin to Portuguese, i.e., despalatalização and iotização, because, by the principle of economy, those would be typical tendencies to be established, once they promote a facility of articulation.

In the early brazilian historiographic tradition, one may notice a certain inclination towards the definition of the rising brazilian national literature through the identification of typical elements which told it apart from the “original” portuguese literature. Redeeming these trend in some of our earliest historiographers, this study aims at picking out echoes from this tension line in the contemporary historiography produced by Alfredo Bosi and Luciana Stegagno Picchio regarding their evaluations of the body of work of Cecilia Meireles and Murilo Mendes, considering that these poets do not fit in perfectly in the “local” or “picturesque” necessities established by the historiographic tradition of which they belong to. Keywords: Historiography; Brazilian poetry; Cecília Meireles; Murilo Mendes

This paper consisters about the organization of three histories of the literature, which are: Pequena História da Literatura Brasileira, written in 1919, by Ronald de Carvalho; Breve História da Literatura Brasileira, written in 1945, by Erico Verissimo and History of the Brazilian Literature, written in 2007, by Carlos Nejar. The theoreticians that are going to embase these arguments are David Perkins and Hugo Achugar.

Review of LIMA, Luiz Costa. O controle do imaginário & A afirmação do romance. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2009, 400 p.

"Viagem" by Francisco Neto Pereira Pinto.

Presentation of the issue Phonology

Expedient Letrônica v. 2, n. 2 (2009)

Presentation of the Literature issue on Literature history.

The present article is an analysis of an American tale, The Story of an Hour, from Kate Chopin (1894), in the light of Émile Benveniste, aiming at corroborating the hypothesis that the author marks herself in the employment of the English language as well as makes herself present in the world indirectly once bringing about her subjectivity. Key-words: formal apparel, subjectivity, enunciation.

This paper accomplishes a study about media languages: it makes a comparative analysis of O Primo Basílio romance fragment, by Eça de Queirós, and its adaptation into the cinema, the homonymous film of the Director Daniel Filho, analyzing the transcodification process from the literary narrative language to the cinematographic language. We aims to accomplish a reading that seeks comprehend the meaning of some primordial factors of the Romanesque structure: the details- the sofa, the divan, the ambient illumination, the objects color – in the romance and in the film. The study will focus the analysis of aspects that help to verify how the configuration of choices in the literary speech was, seen as starting point, and transposed into another configuration, the film. The intertextual dialogue in the narrative speech will be evidenced through theoric basis supported in several authors of the cinematographic and narrative theory. The omnipresence of the mass culture in the contemporaneous life can be made as an instrument for the work of transformation people and relations with life, from approaches, between the two focused languages, that move to new knowledge.

The study of Language Acquisition requires an investigation that rests on interfaces. The interface between Language Acquisition and Morphology offers interesting ways to investigate the grammatical knowledge that children early acquires. The morphological regularization process, verified in Brazilian Portuguese verbal forms like “fazi,” “trazo,” “sabo,” or “ponhei,” and the inflectional suffix changes in forms like “mexei,” “suji,” or “usia,” make us consider children’s recognition capacity of language morphological resources and the emergence of such grammatical knowledge. Furthermore, through this interface we can think children’s capacity to deal with the productivity of new forms in language, from language input and children’s own knowledge. Through this perspective, we find that it is not appropriate to think of this sort of production as ‘errors.’ In the study “Formas Morfológicas Variantes na gramática infantil: um estudo à luz da Teoria da Otimidade” (Lorandi, 2007) we searched for linguistics evidences of child sensibility to language’s morphological resources from morphological regularization data and, in the Optimality Theory framework, explanations of why this phenomenon occurs in child language. Our present work brings the results of this investigation, and gives support to a new terminology for these productions, ‘morphological variant forms,’ instead of ‘errors.’ It also develops on the use of this information on the understanding of human capacity to deal with the resources that language disposes and that are available during child language acquisition.

This study will focus on some relevant aspects about the teaching and learning of a foreign language related to corrective feedback. In the first part, there is a bibliography review about some central aspects that are linked to corrective feedback, interaction and kinds of feedback through precisely information about the subject. After, the results of a research involving nineteen Secretariado Executivo students and the English teacher are presented. The results are about the error treatment, checking the teacher and students points of view. Finally the resulted data is analyzed and the conclusions for the study are presented.

This article aimed at collecting and discussing the results of researches that emphasized the search for the relationship between phonological disorder, in its various degrees of gravity and levels of intelligibility, and phonological awareness, two subjects that are frequently found both in phonological clinical practice and in scientific investigations in the area of language acquisition. The results of the studies in analysis showed that there is a relationship between the quality of the phonological system and the performance in phonological awareness abilities, and that the phonological awareness abilities have been lower than expected in children with phonological disorders.

The aim of this paper is to incentivize the foreign language (FL) or second language (SL) insertion in the first to fifth grade curriculums at basic education schools, and justify it. Therefore we bring some authors who, based on their studies, corroborate the idea of how fruitful such learning is from several points of view to 6-10-year-old students. Based on the bibliographical review, we conclude that the FL/SL insertion in the first grades of elementary school does not affect the process of reading and writing/literacy in mother tongue.

Review of Earl F. Caldwell (Ed.), Bilinguals: cognition, education and language processing. New York: Nova Publishers, 2010.

In this article broach the novel “The left hand” (À mão esquerda), by Faust Wolff, focusing in the memorialistic aspect from speeches of various narrator that compose the narrative. We analyze the different ways like are represented such speeches, emphasize their formal characteristics and their contents.

Neste estudo refletimos sobre as representações presentes na obra fílmica O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias (2006), de Cao Hamburger, considerando a relação entre História e Cinema, a partir de elementos como o imaginário social acerca da ditadura militar e o cotidiano histórico inerente aos anos de chumbo no Brasil. A análise busca no olhar infantil da personagem principal da narrativa as representações simbólicas pelas quais o regime militar afetou a cotidianidade dos indivíduos. Neste sentido, valendo-nos dos conceitos trazidos pela Nova História Cultural e tendo a pesquisa bibliográfica e a análise de imagens em movimento como metodologia do estudo, buscamos as aproximações das representações sociais, do imaginário e do cotidiano inerentes à ditadura militar no Brasil.

Entre os anos de 1929 e de 1930 o escritor e etnólogo francês Michel Leiris (1901-1990) colaborou para revista de etnografia Documents. Nas páginas do periódico foram veiculados alguns dos principais debates das artes e da etnologia francesa no período. Tratava-se de um momento conturbado no continente europeu e de muitos questionamentos no que dizia respeito às concepções oitocentistas de “civilização”. Pode-se dizer que a revista funcionou como um “laboratório” no qual o escritor Georges Bataille (diretor do periódico) e Michel Leiris puderam propor e testar novas formas de se pensar a sociedade ocidental e suas relações com outras sociedades. As contribuições deste para a revista foram profundamente marcadas por suas leituras acerca do gnosticismo, do neoplatonismo e do hermetismo – que ele mesmo costumava denominar apenas como “ocultismo” ou “misticismo”. Este artigo visa, portanto, empreender uma leitura pormenorizada de artigos escritos por Leiris em Documents, procurando investigar de que modos os debates ali travados contribuíram para suas reflexões posteriores no âmbito da disciplina etnográfica e no da chamada “escrita de si”.

Motivado pelos constantes questionamentos que lhe são feitos sobre o comportamento dos religiosos na América portuguesa, o autor, por meio do presente artigo, analisa três casos do século XVIII que envolveram denúncias de conduta sexual de frades carmelitas seguidores da Constituição Turônica, adotada nos conventos da Cidade da Paraíba, Recife e Goiana. As peças documentais, objetos desse estudo, foram retiradas dos fundos portugueses Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo e Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino. Aplicando as ferramentas teórico-metodológicas da micro história italiana, procura-se compreender esses acontecimentos não como uma parte que demonstra o todo, mas sim como um pedaço da complexidade de uma realidade maior, na qual está inserida a presença portuguesa nos trópicos. Partindo desse pressuposto teórico, pretende-se analisar as motivações que levavam esses desvios de conduta a tornarem-se objetos de denúncias às autoridades religiosas e administrativas da América portuguesa. Esses relatos adquiriam novas dimensões ultrapassando o status de boatos corriqueiros para transformarem-se em reprimendas a esses religiosos.