Revista de Letras (UFC)

5-12

Authors: Edair Gorski

This paper deals with topicality as a general property of discourse organization and investigates the semanticdiscursive topic coding in narrative as resulting from both cognitive and communicative motivations. Empirical results of personal experience narrative analysis show that topic is hierarchically organized and that such hierarchy is equally projected on speech and writing. The difference between the two modalities arises at the level of coding unities which syntactically represente the narrative hierarchic structure in discourse.

25-31

Authors: José Lemos Monteiro

This paper concentrates on a reading of João de Barros’ grammar, published for the first time in 1540. The paper basically analyses the main aspects of João de Barros’ orthographic doctrine and his theory on the parts of speech. This reading demonstrates that João de Barros did not limit himself to just repeating the classic tradition. He, on the contrary, was able to perceive and to accurately describe a series of changes in the Portuguese language.

44-51

Authors: Antônio Luciano Pontes

TERMINOLOGIA CIENTÍFICA: O QUE É E COMO SE FAZ

55-59

Authors: Ana Cristina Pelosi Silva de Macedo

Definições populares empregadas por trinta falantes do português brasileiro para expressarem o conceito transmitido pelos supraordenados de nove categorias semânticas são analisadas à luz do modelo psicolingüístico de categorização semântica proposto por Markovitz (1977). As respostas dos sujeitos ao descreverem atributos e funções associadas com o conceito da categoria foram comparadas com respostas obtidas por um grupo de setenta e seis sujeitos falantes do inglês americano que participaram de um estudo similar realizado por aquela autora. Embora os resultados da análise apontem para uma estreita correspondência lingüística entre os comportamentos dos dois grupos, eles destacam o fato de que peculiaridades específicas à cultura também existem e estas irão governar a freqüência e o uso de certas relações semânticas. Espera-se que a análise relatada neste artigo sirva como um pequeno passo para lançar luz sobre o fato de que a formação de conceitos reflete o contexto sócio-cultural onde estes são construidos

64-67

Authors: Marinalva Freire da Silva

The penisular Medicine - within the European world - it offers certain peculiar characteristics notes, for example: the Moslem presence; the decisive role of the Jews in the delimitation and in the overcoming of the monastic Medicine that in incorporating to the others Christian reigns brings back the Almoravide intolerance; the maturity of the peninsular romance languages. This last factor is of fundamental importance to the researchers of the medical literature since the sloping of the philology.

77-83

Authors: Vládia Maria Borges Falcão

In the interactive processing of texts, the reader has to elaborate the word, sentence, concept and text-level processes simultaneously in order to establish meaning relations with the text. To achieve this purpose, the reader has to develop word, sentence and discourse-comprehension skills. In foreign language, the development of these skills requires some basic vocabulary and grammatical knowledge of the language. This way, the reader must reach a linguistic threshold to be able to read texts in foreign language.

88-91

Authors: Tereza Callado

Convergent and divergent points between the concept of translation and the historic considerations about the transmission of truth, in ancient time and its exegesis.

98-104

Authors: Patrícia Anne Vaughan

The present work is a study in Comparative Literature which analyses the sea as metaphor in the Brazilian novel, Mar Morto, by Jorge Amado, The Old Man and the Sea (O Velho e o Mar) by the American novelist, Ernest Hemingway, as well as in the one-act play by Irish dramatist, John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea (no translation available in Portuguese). With the principal focus on Mar Morto, this study considers the sea as an element which provokes different attitudes in the masculine and feminine characters of the three literary works. The relationship of the mariners of Bahia to the sea is compared to that of Santiago, the old man of Hemingway’s novel: these men admire and love the sea, which they consider as the dominant feminine force in their lives and the source of their religious belief. The women’s relationship to the sea is very different. In comparing the attitude of the feminine characters in Mar Morto and Riders to the Sea, one can readily observe that the mothers, daughters, wives and lovers of those whose life is irrevocably linked to the sea, consider it to be an enemy which robs them of the love and support which is provided for them by their men. There is in these women, however, a strange resignation to their fate, and when death occurs at sea, they weep and lament, but finally accept the role which destiny has assigned them.

108-112

Authors: Martine Kunz

S’inspirant des Fleurs du Mal, le texte prétend illustrer les ambiguïtés inhérentes à la conception baudelairienne de l’amour.

115-119

Authors: Raíssa Emir Vieira Maia

This work shows how Carlos Gomes, an important personage of the music history, passes, in O Selvagem da Ópera, from a historic speech to a literary speech, using an inventive process which the historic data are used to compose the statute of the literary fiction.