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This paper has as its subject the notion of enunciator, seen as voice, following the proposal of the Theory of Polyphony. It defends the idea that enunciator must be understood as enunciative tones, that is, as ways of content presentation, as voice type, as enunciative position. It distinguishes three types of enunciators and it establishes discursive criteria for its identification.

From considerations of a discursive approach of the relations between sounds and meanings, the work reflects, first, on some functions of the voice in the constitution of meanings in Brazilian electoral political discourse. More specifically, we analyze discursive sequences extracted from the Free Television Time for Election 2002 Presidential Election, describing and interpreting certain uses and effects of segments, suprasegments and prosodic elements employed in the programs of Lula and Serra. After this analysis, the study concludes with a reflection on an anthropological trait included in the human voice and with a hypothesis about a kind of nostalgia for the voice against the emergence of certain technologies of language.

This article proposes the discussion of the novel, A Rainha do Ignoto, written by Emilia de Freitas, based on the fantastic theories. The study of the novel, written by an almost unknown woman author producing in the Brazilian nineteenth century, tries to demonstrate also the curiosity of the peripetias that involves the narrative and its innovations.

The ubiquity of narrative discourse and its textual characteristics allow for the analysis of relationships, both within the space created by the narrators in the story world, and between the participants of the communicative event where it arises. Within modern linguistics, this attention to narrative has fomented several approaches and methodologies. This article proposes a theoretical reflection on the linguistic approaches that have been proposed to the study of narratives, which starts with the, then innovative, Labov and Waletzky (1967) article, moving on to interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and the current approach to the study of ‘small stories’ (Georgakopoulou, 2007).

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Considering fragments of the haroldian poem A Máquina do Mundo Repensada, this paper approximates Drummond and Haroldo de Campos. In this poem, the poetic person’s unquietness conducts him to very peculiar displacements: the one that concerns to the end of millennium, marked by the utopia’s collapse, by the subjectivity fragmentation, by the frontiers’ reconfiguration between people and places. Assuming what the drummondian fatigued eyes have seen, the poet Haroldo de Campos will (re)think his world disharmony.

This paper aims to analyse the book Kiriale, written by the poet Alphonsus de Guimaraens. The poems specially focused are “A cabeça de Corvo” and “O Cachimbo”. The book is also studied by its structural features and by the conception of poetry that it presupposes. In spite of the fact that it is not the most elaborated work written by Guimaraens, Kiriale shows a kind of thematic and formal organization that includes the book in the scope of literary reflections from that period, in special for taking literary works as racionally structured buildings. The paper is also concerned with some evidences of a particular poetical project that could be extended to the whole work left by Guimaraens. At last, some comments are made on the strained and problematic features of Guimaraens’ lyric poetry.

In this article, we present the poem Província, written by Cecília Meireles, considering its traditional resources. We also study the images of the city and the time changes. The theoretical approach includes Hegel and Adorno.

Manuel Bandeira has been considered by critics the introducer of free verse in Brazilian poetry as well as the forerunner of our modern lyrics. Nevertheless, the author seems not to consider this position given to him. This artricle aims to discuss this issue and show the characteristics of Banderian poetry that put him at the forefront of the Brazilian modernist movement.

Dès les premiers ouvrages de Cecília Meireles, il est possible d’identifier dans certains des poèmes l’allusion périodique à un “centre” (axi mundi), un lieu intermédiaire, temporairement atteint par le Moi-lyrique, qui contient en soi la plénitude et l’énergie de la source de la Vie et permet l’intuition de l’Intelligible ou de l’Absolu. Henry Corbin nomme ce point d’intersection mundus imaginalis; il se vaut du latin pour traduire l’expression arabe du soufi andalou Ibn Arabî. Ce monde intermédiaire – des idées-images, des figures-archétypes, des corps subtils, de la “matière immatérielle” – se situerait entre l’univers saisissable par la pure perception intellectuelle (l’univers des intelligences chérubiniques) et l’univers perceptible par les sens. Les poèmes Medida da significação [Mesure de la signification] du livre Viagem (1939) et O enorme vestíbulo [L’énorme vestibule) de Retrato natural (1949) illustrent cette figuration propre à l’auteur, particulièrement présente dans son dernier ouvrage: Solombra (1963).

This study examines Mario Quintana’s work, highliting, in his poems, the presence of a kind of theory of poetics, a distinctive element of modern poetry. The analysis has shown that in his work the poet theorizes, particularly, about the communication with the readers, reacting against the – also modern – phenomenon of lack of communication.

Le Poema sujo [Poème sale], de Ferreira Gullar, est le corps lyrique à partir duquel est spéculée l’existence de la voix d’un sujet historique transformée en un langage qui accueille en même temps le passé et le présent. Cette voix possède l’apparence du réel sans l’être, elle est porteuse de signes qui attestent de l’objet temporel tout en le rendant éternel. En partant du régime esthétique de l’art proposé par Jacques Rancière et l’idée de mémoire engagée – une synthèse théorique des propositions de Jean-Paul Sartre et Paul Ricoeur – ce travail analyse le double caractère de ce poème jusqu’alors simplement perçu comme mémorialistique, en affirmant le dasein d’une poétique mêlant pensée et langage.

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The concept of journey relies on two bases. The first one consists in being in movement, the periplus itself. The second basis aims the self recognition through the knowledge of others, which also includes a collective identification, inserted in the idea of nationality and the universalist project, as occurred in the 1920s. Considering the identitary aspect involving the act of travelling, it was adopted the habit of writing letters as a procedure of approach and exchange of news, experiences and sensations. These bases were not left out of account by Ronald de Carvalho (1893-1935), a writer who incorporated a part of the modernist project platform in the diplomatic exercise. In this context, he wrote Toda a América (1926), a book of poetry. Dialoguing with some subjects of the literary tradition, the apprehended poetic speech suggests displacements, not only in space, but also includes a more extensive and symbolic dynamics, which points out the sensorial comprehension of Brazil integrated to the American characteristics. Being the subject conducted in this direction, this current essay has the purpose of examining Toda a América. The aim is not to define it but to submit it to the requirements of the modernist program in progress.

Cet article étudie une partie de la production poétique d’Ana Cristina Cesar dans le but d’analyser de quelle manière elle effectue certaines opérations pour réinventer le lyrisme dans sa pratique.

Some questions about Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Neurosciences interfaces are presented and discussed, specially the ontological incommensurability and the granularity problem (Poepp el and Embick, 2005), which gains new outlines when they are analyzed under a Reduction Problem of the Philosophy of Mind perspective (Heil, 1998; Teixeira, 2000). From this point of view, both problems can be investigated from the solutions of this problem which were formulated in the identity theories, reductionism, functionalism and supervenience philosophical theories fields. The relevance of these proposals is evaluated concerning incommensurability and the granularity, whose study is considered fundamental in the research of possible interfaces between language sciences.

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This work discusses some ideas of language acquisition borne in the beginning of the Generative enterprise and still quite alive today such as the concept of Universal Grammar (UG) a constant among the various phases of the Theory.

Chomsky and Pinker have been involved in a debate on issues concerning the nature of human language, its history, how it is acquired and how it develops. Although both represent a biological understanding of language, Chomsky with the idea of an innate universal grammar and Pinker with the vision of an evolving form of instinct, there are many differences between them, culminating in one of the most recent clashes cast, centrally, in Chomsky, Hauser & Fitch (CHF) (2002) e Fitch, Hauser & Chomsky (FHC) (2005) vs Pinker & Jackendoff (PJ) (2005a) e Jackendoff & Pinker (JP) (2005b). The items in dispute, especially about how language emerges in the human species, has caused impacts on the direction of the field of Linguistics and Evolutionary Psychology devoted to natural language. The following text describes and evaluates the debate on the agenda regarding their most specific aspects and most important consequences.

The contribution of neuroscience findings for the study of human language is an ever-present reality. Professionals in the field of literacy can find explanations on these findings and possible applications in their teaching practice. The goal of our work is to present a holistic view on human cognition and engage with the acquisition of language. For this we offer a brief description of the enactive theory (holistic). The relations established between the issues discussed can contribute to a different perception of the language acquisition process.