Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GUSTAVO AUGUSTO LIMA DE SOUSA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : GUSTAVO AUGUSTO LIMA DE SOUSA
DATE: 09/08/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: SALA DE REUNIÃO VIRTUAL
TITLE:

The agreement between cognition and culture in Umberto Eco's notion of categorization: Kant e o ornitorrinco

KEY WORDS:

Cognitive linguistics

Categorization

Umberto Eco

PAGES: 130
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

This Masters thesis aims to analyze how the Italian semioticist Umberto Eco treats the theme of categorization, in order to point out possible contributions to the studies of that cognitive mechanism within the cognitive sciences and, above all, cognitive linguistics. Among Eco’s vast intellectual production, this study focuses on the analysis of the book Kant and the platypus (1998 [1997]), as this work comprises a number of essays dealing with cognition and language, which, directly or indirectly, discuss categorization. Considering the nature of the object of this research, this thesis is fundamentally a qualitative theoretical-interpretative work (CRESWELL, 2013; SILVA, 2020; ECO, 2014c). In conformity with those research characteristics, the methodological procedures used in this study include literature review, Ginzburg’s (1989) indiciary paradigm and software of qualitative analysis of texts (Iramuteq^®). Based on that methodology, and aiming the proposed general objective, this work examines different conceptions of cognition, of category and of models of categorization, in order to identify and describe the theoretical-epistemological view of the focused author. Throughout the first part of the analysis, the main theoretical constructs of Umberto Eco’s cognitive semantics are presented and explained. 

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1675404 - PAULO HENRIQUE DUQUE
Interna - 1149420 - MARIA DA PENHA CASADO ALVES
Externo à Instituição - RICARDO YAMASHITA SANTOS - UnP