Banca de DEFESA: GABRIELA FERNANDES ALBANO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : GABRIELA FERNANDES ALBANO
DATA : 07/02/2017
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: a definir
TÍTULO:

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

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

sujeito posposto; funcionalismo; escrita jornalística.

PÁGINAS: 111
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 the topic of several researches (cf. VOTRE; NARO, 1986; BERLINCK, 1988; SPANO, 2002, 2008; GOMES, 2006; MARQUES, 2012; LAMIM, 2013) and the generative grammar. 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 (GIVÓN, 1995; HOPPER, 1998; BYBEE, 2006). Adopting this perspective, we developed a research with qualitative and quantitative approach. The quantification of the data is done not only for the testing of the hypotheses, but also to allow generalizations about the phenomenon studied and the comparison of the results of this research with previous studies about the subject postponed. On the other hand, the qualitative analysis allows the exploration of specific characteristics to certain occurrences of the postponed subject in our corpus. Regarding the analysis, we considered the following factors: informational status, extension of the subject NS, type of verbal construction, animation of the subject NS, definity of the subject NS and textual genre. The results obtained for most of the factors confirm the characteristics presented by the previous researches for the postponed subject. However, one of the groups of factors, definity of the subject NS, showed an unexpected behavior. Different from what previous studies postulate, in our corpus the subjects are predominantly [+ defined]. We associate the predominance of [+ defined] postponed subjects to the presentational character (of information, arguments and/or events) of the journalistic genres which favors well defined and definite referents. Generally, our research confirms the relevance of morphosyntactic and semantic-discourse factors in placing the subject after the verb.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1451510 - MARIA ALICE TAVARES
Interno - 1551756 - EDVALDO BALDUINO BISPO
Externo à Instituição - CAMILO ROSA DA SILVA - UFPB