A SENSE OF CONSTRUCTION IN TEXTS MULTIMODAL: an analysis of the conceptual and inferential processes from the charges read about the World cup 2014
Cognitive Linguistics. Reading cartoons. Conceptualisation. Inferences.
This work is based on the theoretical principles of Cognitive Linguistics and aims to investigate how occur the conceptualisation process and the construction of inferences from cartoons readings related to the Football World Cup 2014. Assuming that conceptualize and inferring consist of mental processes that make it possible to sort and make sense of the world through the perceptual and social experiences of each being in a particular environment, it is necessary to resort to categorization of notions (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), Cognitive Models Idealized - schemes image (Johnson, 1987; Lakoff, 1987), propositional models (Lakoff, 1987) and metonymic and metaphoric models (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Lakoff, 1987; FELTES, 2007) - and inferences (Lakoff, 1993). For this study, the selected corpus is composed of fifteen (15) papers by students of the 2nd series of the night high school a school of public schools, located in Natal / RN. Given the theoretical framework and the nature of data, adopts a qualitative methodology (CASSEL, Symon, 1994; Goldenberg, 1999) supported the paradigm of insight (Talmy, 2005), that of the individual researcher's perceptions before a object to be studied. From the analysis, it certifies that the interaction between verbal and visual elements arranged in cartoons act as guides sense and involve different perceptions rooted in individual and shared knowledge among students. There is also the textual productions that some students go beyond the understanding of the clues provided by the multi-modal texts, highlighting the importance of Idealized Cognitive Models (Lakoff, 1987) in the grounds of this research. Thus, it confirms the assumption that the cognitive conceptualization and hence the construction of inferences are complex cognitive activities that involve fixed and social experiences.