Repositório RCAAP

Expedient Letrônica v. 3, n. 1 (2010)

This study intends to do a reading of what Noam Chomsky called the Plato’s Problem and the Descartes’s Problem. The first seeks to answer the question about how it is possible for adult human beings to possess such a complex and rich knowledge of the language system, since their contact with the world can be considered limited and the initial stimulus they receive during language acquisition are so poor; and the second is related to the creative aspect of language, which allows the elaboration of an infinite number of sentences from a finite number of elements and structures.

Onomasiological fields of the specialized fishing activity at Baiacu-Vera Cruz-Bahia community are analyzed. These analyses are based on the theoretical and methodological approaches on Onomasiology and Semasiology, which are based on the proposal from European Structural Semantics, by K. Baldinger (1970), as well as debates in the field of Lexicology. We present a survey developed from the application of linguistic surveys with people who work in fishing, and supplemented with data from general and etymological dictionaries.

In this article, we reflect on António Lobo Antunes’ work in the light of Discourse Analysis, especially drawing upon the concept of paratopia as an insightful basis to appreciate the autobiographical dimension of this Portuguese author’s books (autobiographical dimension admitted by the author himself). Thus, on the one hand, we will use the novels “Memória de elefante”, “Conhecimento do inferno” and “Os cus de Judas”, which make up the initial trilogy of Antunes’ career. On the other hand, we will rely on interviews by the writer, to the extent that such statements make the autobiographical components of the books explicit. All the journalistic material consulted was collected by two recent works, namely, the volumes organized by Blanco (2001) and Arnaut (2008).

My goal in this paper is to analyze the infant’s speech in process of language acquisition, trying to interpret it from an enunciative point of view, and having as theoretical support the Theory of Énonciation, elaborated by Émile Benveniste. For this purpose, I analyze dialogs between infant and adult, suggesting hypothesis that may explain the process of constitution of signification in the infant’s speech through the relation between form and meaning in the sémiotique/sémantique scope of language.

This paper aims to reflect on how work of exploration of dialogical situations could be developed in a Portuguese Language Textbook (LDLP). The theoretical framework is based on the structure of LDLP, according to Bezerra (2001) and PCNs (1998), and the Theory of Dialogue , Campos (2004). We conclude that the LDLP analyzed does not explore the dialogue completely and if the cited Theory was applied, students would learn more about the linguistic wealth, enrich, well, teaching work with dialogue as the object of analysis.

This research in Language Studies finds support in both the Theory of the Utterance and Discourse Analysis, benefiting from the dialogue between these two theories while discussing the designation of the language of “the others”, that is, trying to understand how a name can be given to a language that is already named, taking into consideration the utterance space in the border, according to Sturza (2006). Our corpus is constituted by pieces of oral utterances produced by speakers at the Brazilian-Uruguayan border, in the cities of Livramento/Rivera and Bagé. Based on the utterances collected, we believe that it is interesting to consider the relation created between the language and the speaker, and to perceive the constitution of the linguistic materiality of these utterances. There is in language a discourse about itself materialized in the collected utterances.

This paper presents the theory of dialogue (COSTA), in which it assumes there is a natural tendency for connectivity, allowing it thus explain the natural propensity that a man has for communication. In this theory articulated four levels are considered to describe the dialogue: the so-called explicit, implicit said, the intentional and inferential. We discussed the theories and inferential models to build an interface for describing the inferential level dialogue, as proposed in the theory of dialogue (COSTA).

The present work brings a cognitive model that proposes communication through musical language. We consider communicative manifestations as behaviors aiming to elicitate other behaviors in social interactions. From this point on, we can argue that songs are tools for dialogue, with communicative behavior triggering listener's behavior through music interpretation and meaning attribution. In this sense, the communicative interaction bases itself not only in informative content, but also in the interaction between cognitive domains of individuals involved in every human activity.

The purpose of the present article is to show that communication is guided by an intimate relation between emotions, intentions and inferences. We present Sperber and Wilson’s (1995) Relevance Theory, whose conviction in rationality does not permit an adequate explanation of the interference of emotions in communication. Them, we describe Campos’ (2010) Dialogue Theory, which demonstrate a greater potential to explain the relationship between emotions and intentions.

It is assumed that written speeches in interactive sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, represent a direction of informality in written communication in virtual environments, in order to illustrate (i) the centrality of intentionality and emotion and (ii) the simplifying in the mediation of language in the virtual environment. Accordingly, we analyze a set of linguistic tags of this rhetoric of informality in which the speaking and writing language become close.

Presentation of the issue: Syntax

The purpose of this article is to study the intertexts stablished in the short story “Catálogo de sombras”, by Angolean writer José Eduardo Agualusa, emphasizing the references to Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms and also to Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges and some of his favourite themes, such as libraries, labyrinths and detective narrative.

Historical and sociological discoveries have contributed decisively in literary criticism. Once the post-colonial entered the academy, issues hitherto forgotten by hegemonic critical studies were brought into question, leading researchers to develop new instruments to deal with these new problems. Therefore, in order to make a contribution in the context of the Community of Portuguese-speaking African Nations, we gathered a few critical studies on the process of colonization. Two structural elements of (post-)colonial African societies resulted of this analysis, in a very clear way: cultural hybridity and social dualism. The identification of these structural elements of Lusophone colonialism allows us to perceive issues still present in Portugal’s former colonies in Africa. In this study, we intend to outline the main points listed by postcolonial critics about these elements, as well as suggest to studies on African literature of Portuguese language a critical path in which hybridity and dualism are analyzed as a legacy of colonization.

This article intends to analyse and interpret the poem “O excesso mais perfeito”, by Portuguese author Ana Luísa Amaral, and the poems “Sonetilho de verão”, “Pomo (de Mínima lírica)” and “Ontologia sumaríssima”, by Brazilian author Paulo Henriques Britto, both of them important poets in the current literary scene of their respective countries. It suggests a reflection on the poetics of the two lusophone artists, based on meta and intertextual dialogue. Strictly, it is intended, in a meta-poetic perspective, to understand the dialogue promoted by these poems, resulting in the production of the new poetry of Ana Luísa Amaral and Paulo Henriques Britto.

Expedient of the issue (vol.4, num. 1, 2011)

Presentation of the issue Dialogues and its interfaces

In this paper, we make a theoretical review about the way in which structural prospects processing approach to understanding arguments and adjuncts. In the psycholinguistic literature, there is a discussion around a possible advantage in processing arguments, reporting an effect of argumental status especially in the analysis of ambiguous sentences. Considering that a parser would not be guided by structural information concerning the argument structure when faced with ambiguous structures, our aim is to show how this approach has dealt with the apparent advantage of arguments over adjuncts.

Nelson Rodrigues's novel "O casamento" (1966) chronicles the 24 hours preceding the marriage of Glorinha, a young woman from the upper middle class of Rio de Janeiro and the youngest daughter of the protagonist Sabino. The owner of a real estate company, prudish, ashamed of his own thinness and a defender of a Christian morality, the father of the bride suffers a break in his daily life without a hitch, of an "indiscriminate cordiality", as the narrator indicates, when, on the eve of the wedding Of the daughter, the gynecologist and friend of the family reveals to Sabino that it caught Teófilo, the groom, kissing his assistant Zé Honório in the mouth. From here on, the conflict of the protagonist begins, in doubt as to whether or not to reveal the truth to the daughter before marriage. Shaken, Sabino has detonated a series of even more disturbing events by releasing pent-up impulses, rescuing old traumas and infantile-juvenile complexes, and indulging in overwhelming sexual fantasies and desires.

Not infrequently the cinema of Glauber Rocha is crossed by images or personages of the popular Brazilian Carnival, mainly the carioca, as it is conceived in the contemporaneity.