Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

17-49

Authors: Maria Carlota Rosa

This article analyses an anonimous 18th century grammar catalogue.Besides raising the most obvious issues on authors and tides ofgrammars, the manuscript evokes problems related to the commerceof printed books, and to the emergence of public libraries in Europe.

73-82

Authors: Vânia Cristina Casseb Galvão

We investigated a case of grammaticalization in the Portuguesespoken in Brazil. From a qualitative analysis, we focused the scaleof change developed by lexical item achar, full verb, that indetermined contexts assumes the function, more grammatical, of aepistemic modal elemento Now, in this paper, our aim is todemonstrate, througl?- a quantitative analysis, a sociolinguistic studyof the more grammatical forms of the achar, from the notion ofapparent-time.

117-131

Authors: Simone Reis; Telmo Nunes Gimenez; Denise Ismênia Bossa Grassano Ortenzi; Elaine Fernandes Mateus

A case study analysing the socialization of a student-teacher ofEnglish language is presented. Based on data stemming from aquestionnaire, an autobiographical report, a class obsetvation report,two tape-recorded supetvision sessions, and one semi-structuredintetview, the case shows the use of a social strategy by the studentteacheras a way to sutvive the practicum supetvision provided atthe university. By identifying the student-teacher's beliefs, we foundthat because biography is central to the socialization process, it isnecessary to reconsider other ways to achieve the goals of theestablished teacher education curriculum.

31-70

Authors: Luiz Antônio Marcuschi

This essay analyzes the metaphor as a specific way of knowing theworld and treats it as a chapter of epistemology rather than ofSemantics. It reviews concepts already developed by Aristotle andQuintiliano, among others, and refuses to accept metaphor as thetransposition of sense or the comparison of two referential domains.It suggests a new view based on the work of Max Black for whomlanguage is seen more as an interactive activity than a system ofsigns. In sum, from a genetic point of view, it defends the thesisthat the metaphor is an a priori synthesis: it is based on the intuitivecreative capacity and not on logical or analytic thought.

91-108

Authors: Rodolfo Ilari

The boundaries between Semantics and Pragmatics still deserve to beinvestigated, since they remain unclear for many linguists, and since theword “pragmatics” has quite often been used among Brazilian linguists inan unscientific, rhetorical way, to enhance the importance of some approachesto meaning and interpretation.This paper claims that a theoretically sound boundary can be drawnbetween semantical and pragmatical approaches if we look at the waythey deliver interpretations. Semantic interpretations are typically the resultof some kind of calculus, whereas pragmatic interpretations are typicallythe result of some working out where no calculus intervenes, rather ahighly specific solution is sought in order to integrate some unexpectedfact into a coherent story. Thus defined, Semantics and Pragmatics can bereferred to as deduction and abduction, respectively.In the light of the distinction just described, I revisit some of the phenomenathat were pointed out in the last decades as best examples of the pragmaticfunctioning of natural language. I argue that presupposition, deixis andspeech acts, highly predictable from lexicon and grammar, are semanticalin nature; on the contrary, implicature, since it depends on abductivethinking and it is not predictable from linguistic form, is described as apragmatic phenomenon par excellence.

163-192

Authors: Maria da Graça Costa Val; Vanessa Cardoso Guimarães

This article is a reworking of two moments of a research project entitled “Between orality and writing”, a study of the genesis of written discourse in children who are learning how to write: the firstmoment is concerned with narrative, the second with letter writing.In both these moments, language is seen as a system organized in and for social interaction, composed of the grammatical,semantic and discursive sub-systems, and human cognition is interpreted as a socially mediated process of subjective construction. We analyze the enunciative activity of children, obtaining evidence of their linguistic skill and their progress in the construction of the discursive styles being studied.