Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GABRIELA FERNANDES ALBANO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : GABRIELA FERNANDES ALBANO
DATA : 27/10/2016
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: sala 313
TÍTULO:

POSTPOSITION OF THE SUBJECT IN JOURNALISTIC WRITING IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE IN A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

postponed subject; functionalism; journalistic writing.

PÁGINAS: 74
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Sociolingüística e Dialetologia
RESUMO:

Brazilian Portuguese is classified as an SVO language (subject-verb-object), also known as direct order (cf. PADUA, 1960; MATTOS E SILVA, 1988). However, there are rare cases in which we find the subject in a post-verbal position. The post-verbal subject has been investigated especially within the sociolinguistic variationist interfaced with the American functionalism (cf. VOTRE; NARO, 1986; BERLINCK, 1988; GOMES, 2006; MARQUES, 2012; Lamington, 2013) and the generative grammar (cf. SPANO, 2002; 2008). In this dissertation, we have as object of study the postposition of the subject in journalistic writing. Our corpus consists of texts from various genres taken from the Tribuna do Norte newspaper, produced in Rio Grande do Norte. The main objective is to circumscribe the occurrence contexts of post-verbal subject in journalistic writing and describe and analyze the factors involved in this phenomenon. As for the theoretical foundation, it is a research based on the functionalist linguistic. Whereas the organization of our speech does not occur randomly, and the ordering possibilities of constituents are motivated by various contexts of use, we have on the basis of research the symbiotic conception of speech and grammar (HOPPER, 1998; BAYBEE, 2006). Adopting this perspective, we developed a research with qualitative and quantitative approach. The quantification of data is done not only for testing hypotheses, but also to allow generalizations about the studied phenomenon and contrast the results of this research with other research dealing the same object. On the other hand, the qualitative analysis allows the exploration of specific characteristics to certain occurrences of the postponed subject in our corpus. Our research confirms the relevance of semantic-discourse and morphosyntactic factors in placing the subject after the verb, as also confirms the findings of this phenomenon in other studies. In the previous analysis presented here, the results for the informational status reveal that there is a tendency to occur post-verbal subject when new information is presented in speech. This fact, coupled with the feature [+ extension] of the new subject SN corroborates the iconic subprinciple of quantity, which provides that information less presupposed (ie, new) has a higher amount of phonic mass. Therefore, the structural complexity (greater extent of linguistic material) seems to reflect the cognitive complexity (introduction of new information in the speech).

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1451510 - MARIA ALICE TAVARES
Interno - 1551756 - EDVALDO BALDUINO BISPO
Externo ao Programa - 1525199 - ERICA REVIGLIO ILIOVITZ