Banca de DEFESA: MARIA CLARA LUCENA DE LEMOS

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STUDENT : MARIA CLARA LUCENA DE LEMOS
DATE: 23/04/2024
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Sala virtual: Plataforma Google Meet
TITLE:

The link between discourse plan and situated metaphor in the opinion article

KEY WORDS:

Discourse plan. Situated metaphor. Functional Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics. Opinion article. Argumentation.

PAGES: 184
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

In this thesis, we investigate the relationship between the discourse plan category and the situated metaphor category in opinion articles. We consider the functional and cognitive dimensions underlying this relationship. Our general hypothesis is that there is a close relationship between the discursive plan of opinion articles and the emergence of situated metaphors in these texts. This relationship is expressed by the predilection of portions in figure position to evoke the situated metaphor. In view of this relationship, we have developed an analysis that combines the functional and cognitive aspects to discuss the phenomenon focused on here. In terms of the functionalist approach, we draw on the assumptions of Functional Linguistics based on Givón (1995, 2001, 2011 [1979]), Traugott and Dasher (2002) and Furtado da Cunha, Costa and Cezario (2015), among others. With regard to Cognitivism, we draw on Tomasello (1998), Lakoff (1987), Fauconnier (1997), Lakoff and Johnson (2003 [1980]), among others. We also draw on Hopper and Thompson (1980), Haido (1996) and Lemos (2020) for discussions on discourse plan, and on Vereza (2007, 2013, 2016, 2017) for situated metaphor. Our investigative locus is the text and, because it extrapolates the traditional method of analysis of these theoretical strands, our work has a macrolinguistic approach. Methodologically, the research is qualitative and descriptive-explanatory. We used both inductive and deductive reasoning to observe the phenomenon analyzed and used the saturation method to describe the results obtained from the empirical material analyzed, which consisted of four opinion articles with different themes and authors. Our results show that there is a link between the analytical categories discourse plan and situated metaphor, so that the majority of situated metaphors (online) are used in a figure position, constituting a mechanism used in the service of argumentation. Furthermore, the findings show that the creation/understanding procedures of these metaphors produced online are monitored by processes of (inter)subjectivity and pragmatic inference, at the same time as they are supported by cognitive models. Thus, the linking of these two categories reflects, from a functional point of view, the close relationship between form and function: the choice of placing the metaphor in a figure position, highlighting the statement with updated meaning online, reflects its discursive role in the service of argumentation and consequent adherence, by the interlocutors, to the thesis defended. In cognitive terms, the general domain mechanisms, particularly imagery schemes and metaphorical and metonymic projections, support the mappings established ad hoc, enabling the interlocutor to undertake online interpretations, i.e. changes in interpretation that do not affect the linguistic code definitively, but are necessary to achieve an understanding of the situated metaphor.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1551756 - EDVALDO BALDUINO BISPO
Interno - 1675404 - PAULO HENRIQUE DUQUE
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO DA SILVA CORDEIRO - UFERSA
Externo à Instituição - MONCLAR GUIMARÃES LOPES - UFF
Externo à Instituição - SOLANGE COELHO VEREZA - UFF