Banca de DEFESA: NARA JAQUELINE AVELAR BRITO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : NARA JAQUELINE AVELAR BRITO
DATA : 05/07/2018
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório D
TÍTULO:

ALTERNATION BETWEEN CONDITIONAL AND PAST-IMPERFECT TENSES IN THE FUNCTIONAL DOMAIN OF COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITION IN FACEBOOK COMMENTS

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Conditional. Past-imperfect. Counterfactual condition. Functional domain.

PÁGINAS: 128
GRANDE ÁREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Sociolinguística e Dialetologia
RESUMO:

In this thesis we have addressed the functional area of the counterfactual condition linguistically codified trough the construction “if p, then q”, where the first part state the conditioning and the latter the conditioned. We aim to analyze the variation among the conditional and the pastimperfect tenses in the codification of the conditioned part, evaluating the influences of social (gender, age and education), structural (sentences order and prosthesis structure) and semantic-pragmatic (subjective behavior, theme, and type of counterfactuality) factors on the use of those tenses. Our methodological and theoretical content is based on assumptions from variationist sociolinguistic and American functionalism. This methodological and theoretical interface is
known in Brazil as ‘Sociofunctionalism’. This research sample is made of 346 conditionals
structures of “if p, then q” obtained from digital source, what grants our assignment pioneering
in the investigation of the counterfactual condition phenomena in the textual genre Facebook
comments, in the scenario of communication through computer. The results, obtained by
quantitative analyses, expose an influence of the linguistic marking on the selection of
conditional and past-imperfect on the counterfactual conditioned in relation to semantic
pragmatic factors. Most marked factors tend to conditional, the most marked form in relation
to Facebook comments, while factors set as less marked favor past-imperfect, the less marked
form in the approached context. Regarding social factors, the results related to age and gender
indicate the possibility of an on-going change headed by women leading to an increase in the
use of past-imperfect on Facebook comments. Over education, the results evidence that
conditional is favored among writers with college degree and past-imperfect among writers
with high and middle school degree. The structural groups factors were not relevant to the
phenomena studied.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1451510 - MARIA ALICE TAVARES
Interno - 1673239 - JOSE ROMERITO SILVA
Interno - 1149420 - MARIA DA PENHA CASADO ALVES
Externo à Instituição - HEBE MACEDO DE CARVALHO - UFC
Externo à Instituição - WELLINGTON VIEIRA MENDES - UERN