Banca de DEFESA: FRANCILENA ALBUQUERQUE SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : FRANCILENA ALBUQUERQUE SILVA
DATE: 20/09/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Conferência online
TITLE:

The process of constructing the meaning of cartoons. A frame-based approach. 

KEY WORDS:

cognition, language, frames, imagery schemes and mental spaces.

PAGES: 150
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

In the development process of human cognition, it is necessary to consider the integration of the body, brain and environment. Based on this perspective, according to Duque (2015), the way we build concepts is related to the way we act in the environment, since our cognition is distributed throughout the body and beyond. Thus, the conceptualization process develops and establishes itself as we develop the capacity to act in the environment around us. For this reason, we are able to develop and refine our language, which somehow organizes the cognitive system. Based on this, the main objective of this study is to demonstrate how cognitive mechanisms (frames, imagery schemes and mental spaces) work together to build meanings in cartoons. The main objective of this research will be achieved through the following specific objectives: to describe how frames, I-schemes and mental spaces act together in the process of constructing the meaning of cartoons; identify how the frames are articulated and connected for the understanding of the cartoons, for this we observe the behavior of the schematic patterns; demonstrate what is the role of mental spaces so that cartoons are understood; to investigate the role of conceptual blending in the process of understanding cartoons; show how verbal and non-verbal clues work within the process of constructing meanings in cartoons. As it is fundamental for our research, we embrace as a theoretical foundation the ecological perspective of cognition and language defended by Duque (2015,2016,2017,2018), especially with regard to human cognitive processes, responsible for the construction of the meaning of discourse through of frames. In addition to this perspective, we search for other theoretical foundations such as George Lakoff's assumption of embodied language (1987, 1990, 1999). We researched the notion of frame as a cognitive structure defended by authors such as Fillmore (1965, 1967, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1985), Lakoff; Gallese (2005) and Lakoff (2008). We focus on the definition of the imagery scheme presented by Lakoff (1987), Johnson (1987), Gibbs; Colston (2006), Mandler (2004, 2005), Mandler; Cánovas (2014) and Grady (205). Finally, we deepened our studies looking at Fauconnier's Theory of Mental Spaces (1994,1997) and Fauconnier's Conceptual Merge Theory; Turner (2002) explanations about the creative and imaginative aspects of the human mind, since these aspects are developed in the cognitive movements carried out by the brain in the search for construction of the meaning of discourse, mainly in the construction of meaning in the discursive category of cartoon.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1675404 - PAULO HENRIQUE DUQUE
Externo ao Programa - 2312982 - ERIK FERNANDO MILETTA MARTINS
Externo à Instituição - PAULO ROBERTO GONÇALVES SEGUNDO - USP
Externo à Instituição - RICARDO YAMASHITA SANTOS - UnP
Externo à Instituição - SOLANGE COELHO VEREZA - UFF