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The present study tested whether lexical disambiguation in sentence context is affected by cross-language lexical activation. In the dominant meaning shared condition, Spanish-English bilinguals read English sentences biasing the subordinate meaning of homonyms that were either cognates or non-cognates. Participants’ ability to reject follow-up target words related to the dominant meaning showed greatest inhibition when the homonym was a cognate and the dominant meaning was shared with Spanish. In the subordinate meaning shared condition, Spanish-English bilinguals read sentences biasing the dominant meaning of the homonyms and were instructed to accept target words related to any meaning of the homonym. In this case, cognate status of the homonym facilitated acceptance of targets related to the subordinate meaning when this was shared with Spanish. Findings are discussed in terms of expanding current models of lexical disambiguation to account for bilingual processing.

Este texto analisa como o personagem Jenny e Camila, romance "Nas Tuas Mãos", de Inês Pedrosa, narram seu passado, marcado por relacionamentos conflituosos e sentimentos de rejeição. Diante do sofrimento, o resgate de suas memórias torna-se possível graças ao distanciamento do tempo, propiciando-lhes maior discernimento e compreensão dos laços familiares. Assim, procuramos demonstrar que a narrativa transformar-se na possibilidade de como protagonistas reelaborarem, não presente, suas experiências de vida, mesmo tempo que instala um dúvida sobre uma verdade do vivido.

"Jogo vital" by Cristiane Krumenauer.

Paper on testimony and literature.

"Casa de Parquet" by Juliana Teixeira Grünhäuser.

Paper on Karl Kleine's memoirs.

This paper present a reflection about the language acquisition processes and cognitive development. Considering this, I intend to develop questions about the levels of intelligence development and its influence on language, according to the Genetic Epistemology of Jean Piaget. It starts with the hypothesis that the cognitive aspects are necessary in linguistic acquisitions, since the cognitive theories assumed an important interface between both. For this reason we intend to analyze and discuss the nature of this interface.

Paper on Odysseus and Penelope.

Paper on Marcello Gama.

The process of language acquisition presents a particular pattern in the establishment of linguistic areas common to all children. The data that we intend to present were collected through a longitudinal study of a child, monolingual speaker of Brazilian Portuguese, in the process of normal language acquisition. This monitoring was made through observation of linguistic performance, interaction through play activity and record the speech data of a child for one year. The beginning of the collection occurred when the child was 1 year and 6 months of age and ended at 2 years and 6 months. The entire collection was made aiming at spontaneous conversation, in which the dyad was composed by the child and the researcher or the child and a family member. Data were collected fortnightly, recorded and documented on tape sessions with about 30-60 minutes. Lexical items produced were transcribed phonetically, and observations of performance and interaction were recorded in field diaries. It has been achieved from this research, a detailed description of the linguistic performance of children and the aim was to contribute data on the lexical and phonological acquisition. The data showed a significant increase in inventory lexical and an aggregation of many phonemes in the phonological system of children in the study period, which can be corroborated with the findings of other studies.

Paper on "A máquina do mundo" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Paper on the memorialistic narrative strategy of Paulo Francis.

"Professora de Francês" by Felipe Iszlaji.

In this paper English interdental fricative acquisition by Brazilians second language learners has been investigated. Data from oral productions of three students groups has been gathered. The first group is composed by sixth semester undergraduate students of an English course, the second and third groups are composed by third and tenth semester students. First, a phonetic transcription of selected words that contained interdental fricatives has been performed. Then, an analysis based on Connectionist Optimality Theory has been carried out. This analysis uses the reranking of constraints, and it reveals that Brazilians second language learners are prone to make substitutions of the segment /θ/ by the segment [t] as well as the substitutions of the segment /ð/ by the segment [d]. Furthermore, there is a strong impact of the Lexical Frequency on the learners productions.

The intend of this paper is to investigate how the subjective writing present in the blogs can be classified and if blogs belongs to the diary’s genre, in accordance with most of definitions found. To reach a conclusion, we covered the following stages: a search for a definition on blog; the comprehension of the enunciative writing; a revelation of the subjective marks in the blogs; the character of the ‘You’ in the formation of the ‘I’ in the blog; and, at last, the study of the Mulher de Sardas blog as an example of the dialogue of I-You/It present in this fascinating instrument proportioned by the digital technology. The search happens under the lights of the Linguistic of Enunciation of Benveniste and under considerations about the Autobiographical Pact of Lejeune.

this paper presents an educational experiment involving written productions in various genres in the discipline of sociology, a group of high school. Topics such as organic intellectual, social problems and identity were the most involved the production and research students.

This study aims to reflect on the relationship between writing and consciousness. The theme is mainly about objects that move through Linguistics and Psychology areas. At this threshold, Psycholinguistics emerges, which is an autonomous discipline that, at first moment, constitutes itself as an interdisciplinary research area by comprehending aspects from both sciences. In an external interface, writing and consciousness are taken as objects that concern Linguistics and Psychology respectively. In an internal interface, we can study them under the perspectives of Psycholinguistic or Cognitive Psychology. Writing, under the Psycholinguistic view can embrace cognitive processes that operate in the writers’ brain as well as the product that results from the direct action of an agent. Consciousness contemplates a variety of definitions. We adopt the concept of consciousness as the knowledge that people have of their mental objects, whether they are perceptions, images or feelings. In this way, we try to analyze the nature of writing and consciousness, because we presuppose that they consist in cognitive processes that perform mutual influence.

Landscape representations depict spaces, according to human memory and perspective. The notion of landscape has a strong cultural meaning: it generates identities. It can be verified that this representation of the construction of an identity, in the story El Sur, of Jorge Luis Borges, takes place in an ambiguous and contrasting space.

The advertisement is a discourse genre that integrates visual and linguistic strategies, aiming at persuading an idealized target audience. For this reason, it has appropriate elements for analysis, both linguistic and critical. In this sense, the present study has the objective to examine the verbal and nonverbal elements in the advertisement Eu deixo o mundo mais pink (Revista Capricho, nov./2009). In order to study the visual aspects, we based on concepts of multimodality of Kress and van Leeuwen (1996) and, through these concepts, we consider the layout, the disposition of images, what is being portrayed and what colors stand out. We also aim to identify the attitudinal evaluations in the verbal text and in the construction of the meaning of advertisement as a whole. We used the theoretical principles of Systemic Functional Grammar of Halliday and especially the Appraisal Theory (MARTIN and WHITE, 2005). It was possible to find at this moment two evaluative stances in the corpus: (1) at the level of verbal text, the judgment for social esteem is highlighted; (2) the values of appraisal predominate in confronting the verbal text to the layout structure of advertisement.

The work aims at a discursive analysis on how the construction of the subject-student identity occurs from the truth games that the school institution appropriates in order to "docilize" it. To do so, we use the chronicle "Big vs. Small" by the author Rubem Alves, in order to illustrate this process of docilization and subjectivation of individuals into "students". For the analysis, we rely mainly on the Discourse Analysis of French line, mainly in the theorizations of the scholars Pêcheux and Foucault.