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Presentation of the issue Theories of Enunciation and Teaching

In this text, we intend to analyze as Jorge de Lima if it uses of reason of the voyage and their metaphorical-symbolic senses like the sea and the island in the construction of its poetical. In this perspective, Lima’s poetry will prioritize the act of the creation agreeing to the meaning constituent of the image of the voyage in modernity, that if of, mainly, in its amplitude.

Presentation of the Literature issue on Philosophy and Literature.

This paper discusses the representation of the memory in some narrators of Brazilian novels, of Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha (1909), by Lima Barreto until Diário da Queda (2010), by Michel Laub, focusing on two important issues: the relationship between memory and the awakening of the senses and the appearing of the involuntary memory. Such themes permeate several areas of the hum an knowledge, such as philosophy, anthropology and psychology. Therefore, at the parallel to the way how the discourse of the narrator is prepared, reflecting on reminiscence, this essay also discuss some theoretical assumptions, using intellectuals such as Plato, Aristotle, Paul Ricoeur, Henri Bergson, Marcel Proust, Walter Benjamin, among others.

The fact that secondary stress occurs in pretonic syllables, one of the most favorable contexts for vowel epenthesis in Brazilian Portuguese, as pointed by sociolinguistics analysis, such as Collischonn (2002), and the observation that epenthesis creates a new syllable in this position seems to indicate that there may be correlation between this phenomenon and this type of stress. Collischonn (1994) and Moraes (2003) identify two trends in relation to the secondary stress attribution in Portuguese: initial prominence and binary alternation between strong and weak syllables. When a word has an even number of pretonic syllables these two trends can be met simultaneously; the same does not occur when the number of syllables is odd. In this paper, we investigate the possibility to occur more vowel epenthesis in words with an odd number of pretonic syllables to meet these two trends and also analyze the location of secondary stress in words with an odd number of pretonic syllables with and without vowel insertion. The sample consists of 8 interviews, belonging to the VARSUL database, with higher educated male and female subjects from Porto Alegre below 50 years old and over 50 years old.

This study investigated the performance of children with phonological disorders in the working memory skills and in the phonological awareness skills, which are parts of the phonological processing and, whether such skills are related to each other, to the chronological age and to the degree of the phonological deviation. The sample was composed of 28 children with phonological deviation, ranging from 4 years old to 6 years and 7 months old, illiterate, with a hypothesis of pre-syllabic writing and, it was divided into two groups as follows: one with 21 children with a more severe phonological deviation and the other with 7 children with a softer phonological deviation. Speech-language and hearing evaluations were undertaken in order to diagnose the phonological deviation along as phonological assessments to determine the phonological system and to rate the degree of the speech impairment through a qualitative analysis. The children’s performance in the working memory assessments was checked through the repetition of a sequence of four digits – to assess the central executive and the phonological memory and, the repetition of non-words task – to assess specifically the phonological memory, according to Baddeley and Hitch’s proposal (1974 apud GATHERCOLE; BADDELEY, 1993), revised by Baddeley (1986). The performance in the phonological awareness evaluation was also checked, including the syllabic and phonemic awareness. The results are as follows: 1) the sample has presented a lower performance in the phonological memory and phonological awareness when compared to the performance of children with normal phonological development as seen in further research conducted in Brazil by making use of similar assessment methods; 2) there has been a significant correlation between the repetition of non-words task and the syllable awareness; 3) there was a statistical correlation between age and the repetition of nonwords task and, a weak correlation between age and the digit repetitions and, between age and phonological awareness. Comparing the groups was found that the children with a more severe phonological deviation have performed lower in all the tasks when compared to the group of softer deviations and, such difference was significant in the total scores of the phonological and in the phonemic awareness. It concluded that the preschoolers with phonological deviation, when considered as a group and not individually, have presented worse performance in tasks of phonological awareness and phonological memory than groups of children with normal phonological development and, that such skills are correlated in a significant way. Children with more severe phonological deviation have presented worse performance than children with less speech impairments, with a statistical difference in the phonological awareness tasks.

This work aims to develop the concept of stranger in the novelette “Bem longe de Marienbad”, by Caio Fernando Abreu, through Julia Kristeva’s work, Strangers to ourselves, which explores subjective and psychological aspects of the person who is living in another country. The characters of the novelette, through their errant ways, introduce a new perspective to the idea of stranger, since the road can also be considered a home. Published in 1996, in the book Estranhos estrangeiros, “Bem longe de Marienbad” exposes what it is to be a stranger in terms of territory and perception of the world.

The present paper aimed to analyze the phonological acquisition profile of children with phonological deviation, particularly regarding the acquisition of rhotic consonants, taking into account the implicational rules related to the complexity of phonological systems, the goals of the Implicational Model of Feature Complexity (IMFC) proposed by Mota, 1996. The quantitative sample showed that the vibrant consonant, produced as fricative, emerges earlier than the tap, unlike the IMFC predicted. Nevertheless, it was observed that the children who are still acquiring the vibrant consonant often replace it with a liquid or glide consonant, indicating that, even though it is pronounced as a fricative, it features as a vibrant allophone

The current study analyzes the phonetic-phonological transfers from Hunsrückisch into Portuguese, related to the sonority of the plosives. To this end, readings of the 'Parable of the Prodigal Son', written in Portuguese and collected from the Alma-H Project (Contatual-Linguistic Atlas of German Minorities in the ‘Bacia do Prata’- Hunsrückisch), are analyzed. The data produced by informants of six research places, are divided into two social groups (low class and high class) and two different ages (generation I and II). The goals of this study are: a) investigate the numbers of transfers in each one of the plosives; b) compare the interlinguistic transfers found with the Hunsrückisch voicing rules, described by Altenhofen (1996), and related to the tonicity of the syllables, and finally, c) check how the different dimensions (diatopic, diastratic, diagenerational), suggested by the theoretical model of pluridimensional dialectology (THUN, 1998, 2010), act in the variety of sonority found into the data analyzed. The results shown allowed us to understand the interlinguistic transfers processes between Hunsrückisch and Portuguese, which contribute to the description of the variety of Portuguese spoken in the regions researched to this study

This article is a presentation of the theme of the journey that unfolds spatially and existentially. The character Teo, narrated by the voices of three different narrators, is the traveler on his journey, suffering physical and psychological transmutation, following a tragic fate that leads to madness. The triple narration reveals itself as original narrative in the novel Antonio and allows a reading that moves away from the simple knowledge of the events and leads us to the interpretation of the meanings of their own journey.

In this article, we formalize the acquisition of word-mid /pt/ and /kt/ sequences in English (L2) by learners from Southern Brazil. The participants, who presented a basic proficiency level in English, had their productions recorded both in English and in Brazilian Portuguese, which allowed for an analysis of the acoustic patterns found in the production of /p/ and /k/ obstruent codas. The acoustic patterns produced by the learners were analyzed using the Stochastic-Optimality Theory, and the constraints used in the analysis were based on the framework of Gestural Phonology (BROWMAN & GOLDSTEIN, 1992) and in the gestural landmarks proposed by Gafos (2002). We conclude that a gestural analysis allows for the formalization of a wider range of acoustic patterns which tended not to be considered in traditional accounts of phonology, as these patterns assume a different status since they are then considered to be part of the grammar.

Through a questioning about the possibility to recognize the appropriate phrase and image that are expressed in Maksim Gorki´s prose, it is our objective to translate the lived experiences that resist the marks of the uneasiness caused in a conscience whose memory was its greatest uniqueness. We propose a more accurate perception of the autobiographic trilogy My Childhood, In the World and My Universities, regarding a movement towards a self-account of his own particular “I” and a singular worldview that ratifies and very often rectifies the historical basis that circumscribed it in the past

This paper is part of a master’s thesis named "The journey rite in Love in the Time of Cholera novel, written by Gabriel García Márquez" (DOURADO, 2013). This research considers the rite of passage, according to Arnold Van Gennep's studies, who defines this rite as a cyclic process of individual transformation marked by symbolic rituals and formal ceremonies made by the individual in his social environment. Thus, Van Gennep considers this journey as a rite of passage, an initiation process, because the spatial and temporal transition of it provides to the traveller the construction of a new way to be in contact with a new culture, a new life. In Love in the Time of Cholera, the journey rite is associated to the main transformations of human life (birth, puberty, marriage and death). However, this article approaches the journey rite related to the death rite due to the different cultural visions about the end of life confronted by the narrative. This analysis is made from the postulates of the anthropologic imaginary to study the symbolic and mythical dimensions that are inherent to the rites of passage

This paper investigates issues that are related to Debucalization and the Phonological Theory. In order to make this investigation viable, different dialects were analyzed to justify the process relevance over languages in general and to describe phonetic motivations that make the appearance of laryngeal segment possible [h]. Fricative consonants behave in alveolar and post-alveolar positions ([s], [z], [S] e [Z]) is investigated through synchronic analysis that justifies the processes of variation/change of these segments into a glottal fricative consonant [h]. This process was read based on Autosegmental Phonology; also, former models, such as Structuralism and Generativism, were visited. Geometry of Features model, proposed by Clements and Hume (1995), is the most used in Brazil, but the process of debucalization does not fit this model, because when the feature [continuous] loses its oral cavity node, it cannot be represented on the tree scheme anymore, this way, its geometrical settings does not fit some theory principles. Because of it, the concept of feature [continuous] of consonant and vowel segments, which are defended by the theory, has been discussed, as well as their role on the phonological oppositions of languages.

: In this paper, we deal with the concept of Phonic salience, based on studies about the variable behavior of third person plural verb agreement (eles comem ~ eles comeØ, ele falam ~ eles falaØ), and of the reduction and/or desnasalisation of final unstressed nasal diphthongs (com[ẽỹ] ~ com[ɪ̃] ~ com[ɪ]; fal[ɐ̃w̃ ] ~ fal[ῦ] ~ fal[ʋ]). In order to discuss Phonic salience, we investigate and confront positions assumed by Naro and Lemle (1976), Lemle and Naro (1977), Guy (1981), Naro (1981) and Nicolau (1984, 1995). These studies were selected because they concerned about at least one of the following criteria: (i) they have suggested different definitions for the variable (NARO, LEMLE, 1976; LEMLE, NARO, 1977); (ii) they have proposed singular parameters to measure Phonic salience (LEMLE, NARO, 1977; GUY, 1981; NARO, 1981); (iii) they have rejected partially/completely the principle (GUY, 1981; NICOLAU, 1984, 1995). In the subsequent step, we assume a critical position in front of the conceptions adopted by these studies, pointing obscure issues that require closer examination. Finally, we settle this discussion on the theoretical framework of the Theory of Language Variation and Change (WLH 1968; LABOV, 1972, 1982, 1994, 2010), giving special emphasis on the intrinsic relationship between Phonic Salience and the problems of constraint and evaluation.

This study addresses the issue of vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese from the perspective of the Optimality Theory. More specifically, we address the issue of adjacency between vowels which seems to impede vowel harmony of height from taking place (*g[i]lat[i]na), but does not seem to affect vowel harmony of ATR when segments which are not specified for the relevant feature intervene (b[ɛ]rnad[ɛ]te). To account for this difference we propose the re-ordering of the markedness constraints AGREE and NOGAP. Another issue addressed is the optionality of both phenomena which allows non-harmonized outputs. For this, we propose the re-ordering of faithfulness and markedness constraints

The aim of this paper is to analyze the theme of travel in the work Primeiras Estórias (1972) by Guimarães Rosa, more specifically, in the tales "Pirlimpsiquice", "Partida do audaz navegante" and "Nenhum, nenhuma." The versions of the piece in "Pirlimpsiquice" as well as the new modifications of the character Brejeirinha to the history of the daring navigator are part of the journey to the world of invention and creative freedom. In "Nenhum, nenhuma," the enigma of the journey is to be able to not precise if the described space corresponds to a location visited by the boy or the visions of a dream of the adult narrator who tries to unite the wires of the past and frame the essence of time. The imaginary of the child is revealed when stories are created and the journey becomes the indentation in the infant universe. The reflections are supported by studies of the narrator and maintain dialogues with the critical essays on the work of Guimarães Rosa.

This article is an analysis of the framework and contributions of the theories of reading as cultural contact created by Gabriele Schwab, professor at the University of California in the 90s. This theory advocates the principle that the reading of literary texts allows a kind of negotiation between cultural limits of readers texts, thus reading it represents a kind of cultural contact. Thus, this theory is configured from an interdisciplinary dialogue between Reader Response Critiscm and Cultural Studies, aspect also analyzed in this study.

In Morte e Vida Severina the migration is told in verse. Eighteen scenes- sequences suggest a form of staging that is manifested in the textuality of the language. The objective of the considerations presented consists of highlighting the aesthetic features that suggest the staging of the migration in the poetic space of scripture. To this end, we emphasize, in the first moment of analysis, the traces constituting the poetics of migration, then presenting how this form of staging is represented in the (dis)course of a migration.

This paper aims to do a chronotope analysis of Cain’s novel (2009) written by José Saramago, which is considered a rereading of Old Testament biblical episodes. The analyzed novel is structured upon the wanderings of the protagonist on his trips that occur through spatiotemporal transgressions. This paper intents to provide a reflection based on chronotope concept accordingly to Bakhtin (1998), that considers the inseparability of time and space categories. At the present study we suggest this time separation only to a methodological purpose. We have observed from the phenomena analysis the Cains’ displacement between realistic and imaginative spaces (BORGES FILHO, 2009) as well as between distinct times – other times – temporal transgressions, that the narrative structure is based on them (REIS; LOPES, 1988).