Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v1a10
Antônia Coutinho, C. Correia
Grammatical tenses contribute to the characterization of temporality that is present in different texts and discourses. This observation is the starting point of the reflection presented in this paper. Thus, based on texts that circulate with the label ‘commentary’, we propose to verify how linguistic marks (used in the different forms and constructions of those texts) contribute to a description of what is (or could be) a commentary. We start with the analysis of texts that are available in the corpus G&T.Comentaand we attempt to characterize the values of grammatical tenses in Portuguese, and the temporal locators that contribute to the construction of temporality in those texts. This approach allows for relating textual genres and types of discourse (Bronckart, 1997). The proposals developed within the scope of Sociodiscursive Interactionism will be followed as a guiding principle.To account in a sustainable way for the values that derive from the various grammatical tenses used in those texts, we will consider the proposals that were developed within the perspective of the Enunciative Formal Theory (Culioli 1995), among others. Based on this framework, it is assumed that the different values characterizing grammatical tenses derive from the interrelation between different grammatical categories such as aspect and modality.The relationships that can be established in the articulation between a micro analysis (centered on forms and constructions) and a macro analysis (which captures the text as a complex whole), will allow us to contribute to a characterization that we consider useful not only for defining properties of texts that are included in the commentary genre, but also for defining the values of grammatical tenses.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v2a3
Herman Parret
Communicative interaction is never fully transparent. A definition in terms of pure transfer of information is an impoverishment of the semantic content of a message. Other emotional connotations of linguistic interaction are deeply rooted into the depth of the psychology of subjects. This means that the interaction is often manipulatory and even seductive. This paper tries to present in a more systematic way the conditions of manipulatory and seductive discursive production. Speech acts theory (Austin, Searle) and conversational logic (Grice) offered some tools to formalize more or less these subtle production conditions of non-transparent “communication”
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v1a6
A. Pinto
The scientific article genre often uses other voices to report their speech, being one of the main parameters of this textual genre. Thus, these voices are summoned in an argumentative strategy, persuading a relevant research community to consider a given. The discourse report is the object of study of several authors (Swales 1986, Authier-Revuz 1982, 2008, Duarte 1999, 2008, 2020, Boch & Grossmann 2002, Rabatel 2012, e.o), focusing on some of these works in scientific discourse (Hyland 1999, 2002, Jorge & Luís 2018, e.o) and, within this discursive domain, in the scientific article genre (Swales 1990, Hyland 2001, Marques 2020, e.o). The main objective of this work is to analyze the representation of the other discourse in the section of the literature revision of the scientific article textual genre. In articulation with this general objective, some more specific objectives were established: a) to analyze the distribution and predominance of the strategies of representation of the other discourse and b) to verify if these strategies differ in the studied areas. To achieve these objectives, a corpus of 30 scientific articles (15 from Linguistics and 15 from Education) was constituted, whose text plan corresponds to the IMRDC structure (Swales 1990, e.o.). This investigation follows a mixed methodology that consists, in general, in the identification of the bibliographic referencing strategies and the strategies of representation of the discourse reported in the corpus. For the proposed analysis, the theoretical-methodological framework of Marques (2020) was taken as a reference, which identifies bibliographic referencing strategies and citation strategies in eight scientific articles, considering the articles in their entirety. As for the results of this investigation, we observed that the most common form of reported speech is indirect speech, both in the entire corpus and comparatively. At the level of linguistic formatting of each of the identified strategies, we verified the existence of some variety in its textualization, with consequences in the expression of different points of view of the speaker about the other speech and the fulfillment of the objectives of its call, in accordance with the results of other studies (cf., among others, Marques 2020).
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v1a7
A. Gonçalves
The idea that linguistic variation results from the properties of functional heads goes back to the 1980s (e.g. Borer 1984) and is particularly important within the generative model known as Minimalist Program. This paper intends to present more empirical evidence favouring this approach, considering the contrast between European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) as far as Restructuring is concerned (available in EP only). It is claimed that this contrast is not due neither to different temporal relations between the embedded and the matrix domains nor to the functional heads projecting in the former. Instead, the difference between the two varieties results from different properties of the embedded functional heads below T, namely Asp and vP: in EP, but not in BP, these heads may be defective for φ-features, which triggers the phenomena related to Restructuring, such as clitic climbing and long object movement to the matrix domain.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v2a5
I. Bosque
Analyses of secondary predication based on the aspectual properties of predicative complements are almost standard today. This paper shows that these approaches are not restrictive enough and make a large number of incorrect predictions. It also shows that the meaning of the main (or primary) predicate is essential to restrict the secondary one. Throughout the text, a pragmatically based analysis of the necessary restrictions is compared with one grounded on semantic paradigms, and several examples are proposed of how the latter may be articulated and developed. Event-related states in secondary predication are shown to be necessary, and are claimed to follow from a series if fine-grained semantic notions crucially related to the meaning of the primary verb.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling17a1
Conceição Carapinha
authentic data sets, different types of corpora increasingly support theoretical and applied linguistic studies. In the same vein, corpora may also constitute an appropriate working basis for second language acquisition and foreign language teaching, especially with regard to the uses of language. However, both Pragmatics, as a discipline focused on the analysis of meaning in context and the area of second language acquisition (SLA) have been quite reticent when it comes to using corpora, whether written or oral. In this text, we present a characterization of spoken learner corpora and advocate their relevance and usefulness to the teaching and learning of Portuguese as a Foreign Language, namely in what concerns Interlanguage Pragmatics. In the same line of thinking, the PL2 oral interaction corpus project presented in this text, with the challenges faced by its implementation, and the possibilities for future research that it will allow, aims at contributing to a better understanding of the scientific and pedagogical advantages of a database containing texts of a more interactive nature
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v2a2
Graça Rio-Torto
This study aims to revisit the essential dimensions of the suffix -inho in Portuguese, either in the European or in the Brazilian Portuguese, and analyzes some of the descriptions that have been made of them, in order to clarify (i) the systemic value of -inho in the word-formation network of the Portuguese language, and (ii) the values of use that it admits, due to several variables, such as: the nature of the base to which it connects, the intonation and the elocutive’s intensity with which it is used, the illocutionary intentionality of the speaker, the evaluative value to be transmitted, the formal, informal, ironic and situational context and message in which it occurs.It is important to differentiate the systemic values of the suffix from the values that the derivative in which it occurs conveys, due to the characteristics of the text and the linguistic situation in which it is used. In a text produced in ironic or sarcastic register, the whole message is permeated by these values, but it cannot be affirmed that the systemic value of the suffix is that of irony or sarcasm, classes that do not configure any derivational paradigm of Portuguese.Thus, besides to provide a categorization of the semantic-pragmatic values associated with the use of this suffix and to reanalyze some myths that persist in some of its descriptions, the elaboration of this text has also a pedagogical intention: to provide PL2 learners with an overview of the values and uses of the diminutive suffix -inho in Portuguese, that allows them to effectively use the suffix in their interaction with native speakers of Portugal or of Brazi
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v2a13
Nuno Verdial Soares
Research on Bare Noun Phrases (BNs) is focused on English and have Carlson (1977) as its origin: the readings (generic or existential) of these nouns depend on the type of predicate they occur with (Kind-, Individual- or Stage-level).Most authors use the Determiner Phrase, including number information, as the key to the readings BNs may get. The D position contains non-checked features which, in European Portuguese (EP), are not checked by Noun-raising to D.According to Oliveira & Cunha (2003), Kind nouns in EP crucially depend on the presence of a definite determiner. Thus, BNs are not Kind Nouns and can never be assigned generic readings.Pre-verbal Subject BNs, though, may occur in EP with Kind- and Individual-level predicates and characterizing sentences – as categorical judgements – getting a non-existential reading by being marked topics. But they also occur, getting an existential reading, in sentences where they are discourse sub-topics in descriptive contexts, like ‘scripts’, in Fillmore’s (1985) sense.The survival of BNs in the pre-verbal position depends on the combination with both Aktionsart values and types of predicates with which they occur. The [+habitual] feature determines the possibility of movement of the subject BN to a pre-verbal (Spec, TP or, as I suggest, TopP) position. This position is non-argumental and thus escapes the government or asymmetric c-command by a verb or a preposition constraint, allowing for a non-existential reading of the noun. The non-checked features in the empty D position are legitimated by a feature in TopP, namely the ‘aboutness’ feature (Reinhart 1981). They are a part of ‘common ground management’ (Bianchi & Frascarelli 2010). They are ‘aboutness topics’ or ‘contrast topics’ (Büring 1999), and they occur in root-sentences or epistemic subordinates.The availability of a non-existential reading of pre-verbal Subject BNs of activity predicates also depends on a parallelism effect: BNs as Objects facilitate a non-existential reading of a Subject BN when occurring with a [+habitual] feature predicate. The topicalization construction, as described by Duarte (1987, 1996), corresponds to the syntactic behavior of BNs in pre-verbal position getting a non-existential reading.In descriptive contexts, BNs occur as sub-topics of a ‘script’ (Fillmore 1985), i.e., they are information resulting from a stereotype situation. According to Abbot et al. (1985), ‘scripts’ are structured in a hierarchy. Lower levels are in a partonomy relation with higher levels. Thus, an explicit or implicit situation allows for the inclusion of low-level explicit information which may not be inferred. They get existential readings and are reconstructed in a post-verbal position. The sentences are thetic judgements. The pre-verbal position makes them prominent and their position in Spec, TP is allowed by an accumulation of events or states or by a logical connection in which there is no lexical connector. The paratactic connection fo
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v1a4
A. Brito
The text analyses the relation between argument structure and information structure with “core dative verbs” in European Portuguese (EP), specifically in the constructions with heavy direct objects (DO). Developing some previous analysis , I will argue in favour of the proposal that EP has a basic construction of ditransitives where the DO is projected as complement of a low verbal category and the IO is projected in the specifier position of that verbal category. When the DP DO raises to a higher position because of Case reasons, the order V DO IO is obtained. With a heavy and focalized DO the order is V IO OD and that can be explained if the DP DO leaves a spelled-out copy. This approach makes discursive functional categories such that topic and focus in the left periphery of the Verbal Phrase unnecessary and reinforces the view that in languages like European Portuguese information structure relates, in a very strong way, Syntax and Phonology and Syntax and Prosody.
本文分析了欧洲葡萄牙语中“核心与动词”的论点结构与信息结构之间的关系，特别是在带有重直接宾语的结构中。根据之前的一些分析，我将支持这样的建议，即EP有一个基本的变物结构，其中DO被投射为低言语类别的补充，IO被投射在该言语类别的说明位置。当DP DO由于Case原因上升到更高的位置时，得到顺序V DO IO。与一个沉重的和集中的DO订单是V IO OD，这可以解释，如果DP DO留下一个拼出来的副本。这种方法使得话语功能分类，比如在动词短语的左边缘的主题和焦点没有必要，并且强化了这样一种观点，即在像欧洲葡萄牙语这样的语言中，信息结构以一种非常强烈的方式，与句法，音韵，句法和韵律联系在一起。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/16466195/ling2022v2a9
J. Ramos
With this paper, we intend to present some considerations about the atypical behavior of the verb ‘poder’ in European Portuguese, when considered within the frame of legal language. Having in mind the analysis of two dominant textual typologies in the juridical field – law itself and the judicial sentence – we aim to describe the potential of interpretation concerning some occurrences which may be of interest when the objective is to reflect on the operative variations of this modal in discursive production, translation studies and other related fields.
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