Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

27-51

Authors: Anna Flora Brunelli

In this paper, based on French Discourse Analysis, following thetheory developed by Maingueneau, we investigate the ethos ofself-help counselling literature, by analysing the enunciativecharacteristics of this discourse. The analysis reveals that the ethosof self-help counselling literature is the ethos of the confident andtrustful man, the man who has no fears, no doubts and nevercomplains, because he deeply belives in his own success. Thiskind of man is also a man of a action, who is always concentratedon his owns attairs. The analysis also reveals that self-help cousellingliterature promotes its owns enunciative characteristics.

73-94

Authors: Cândida Barros; Antônio Luis Salim Lessa

A Portuguese-Tupi dictionary prepared in Belem in 1771 is analysedin the context of the linguistic policy of Pombal’s government inAmazonia, and is compared to Tupi vocabularies compiled in theJesuit period. By these two means, we will examine whether theJesuits continued to serve as a reference during the Pombal periodfor the evangelisation policy in the colony and for the descriptivemodel of Tupi.

117-144

Authors: Ariani Di Felippo; Bento Bento Carlos Dias-da- Silva

Considering urgent the demand for the construction oflinguistically-motivated lexicons for Natural Language Processingsystems, this paper presents a linguistic-computationalrepresentation for the Brazilian Portuguese adjectives that projecta valence. In order to propose this representation, the microstructureof the mental lexicon and the conception of lexical item areinvestigated from a (psycho)linguistic perspective. In addition,(i) the main properties of the valence adjectives are describedand (ii) some of the main lexical-grammatical representationformalisms are investigated. Finally, a lexical entry template forthese adjectives based on the features structures or attributevaluematrix formalism is proposed.

171-192

Authors: Sandra Bernardo

Based on the socio-cognitive approach, I propose that the roleof the pronoun você in the conversational deixis is related to anidealized cognitive model (MCI) of socio-personal deixis, activatedby metaphoric projection. When projecting metaphorically theMCI to point at, speakers signal to their listeners the way that thereferents will be interpreted in the discursive space, accordingto the perspective adopted in relation to their conversationalspeeches and to the sense effects that want to produce in theinteraction. Thus, it was possible to observe two types of você ininteraction: (i) prototype, used to select a specific listener;(ii) generic, used in contexts that don’t involve the specificspeaker’s selection on the part of whose turn it is to speech. Theinterpretation of those uses of você reveal the joint constructionof the discourse by speakers and listeners.

221-234

Authors: José Quintão de Oliveira

We live in a time that might be called a time of translation.Everywhere, we need to read or to listen to utterances that wereoriginally written or spoken in languages that are strange to us. So,we do not need a theoretical approach to conclude that it is possibleto translate a text from one language to a different one. But, is thisreal? Especially, is this real when we talk about Literature? Is possibleto translate a poem? Beginning with Cicero in Ancient Rome, wetrace a rout through Saint Jerome, Ortega y Gasset and other thinkersto discuss the answers to these questions. This short essay is just afirst approach which more than supplying answers, seeks for adebate on the important questions related to this subject. It hasonly one conclusion: two thousand years of reflections on theproblem of translation has not been sufficient to solve it. “Non solum fateor, sed libera uoce profiteor me ininterpretatione Graecorum absque scripturis sanctis,ubi et uerborum ordo mysteriam est, non uerbum euerbo sed sensum exprimere de sensu.”(Eusebius Hieronymus)

19-43

Authors: Adriana S. Marusso

This article presents the basic principles of the Acoustic Theory ofSpeech Production, also called Linear Source-filter Theory of SpeechProduction (FANT, 1960; KENT & READ, 1992; PICKETT, 1999).This description is justified since the theory is not available inPortuguese. This theory is useful in understanding articulatoryacousticrelationships. It may be applied to the analysis of a singlelanguage or in cross-linguistic studies. It also provides a foundationfor many procedures for the acoustic analysis of speech.

59-92

Authors: Werner Thielemann

The description of Amerindian languages is closely linked to theevangelization and catechesis of indigenous American peoples byreligious orders (Franciscans, Jesuits and others). Grammaticographyof native languages, since the discovery of America and for a longtime, was being influenced by the translation practice of catecheticalLatin texts and, in this way, from Ars grammaticae principles andterminology of Latin.Though being aware of the particularities of indigenouslanguages, missionaries do not trangress the degree of descriptive hybridity, evidenced by the Brasilian Grammar of Anchieta and alot of Mexican nahuatl grammars (Olmos, Carochi), discussed inthe article.Paradigmatic change arises with Historical ComparativeGrammar in Europe. The description of American languages changestotally, when, whit his knowledge of Basque, Whilhelm vonHumboldt recognizes the propositional value of the nahuatl verband identifies incorporation as the organizing principle. He initiallygives an adequate description and metalinguistic teminology forthe particularities of Amerindian languages. Throughout his life,he is tried to determine the structures of American languages, butthe very results of his endeavour were not published until after hisdeath (1835).

129-154

Authors: Maria José Foltran; Gisele Crisóstimo

In this paper we analyse the occurrences of verbal participial formsas adjuncts within a noun phrase. We also establish constraints thatdo not allow certain monoargumental verbs to occur in thisenvironment. Differently from participles of two argument verbs,we noticed that some participles of one argument verbs cannotwork as adjectives, while others can. This is because of the type ofarguments each verb selects: since the arguments of certain oneargument verbs share the same features of internal arguments, theparticiples of these verbs can occur as adjectives, and therefore wecan classify these as unaccusative verbs. We also investigate thesemantic properties of the arguments which allow a participialform as a modifier.

171-182

Authors: João Miguel Moreira Auto

The aim of this article is to discuss some important questions onthe meaning of the concept of “author”. First, it explains how RolandBarthes criticizes such a notion by stressing the reader’s role in thecomprehension of a text’s meaning. Then, Foucault is mentioned:he notes the important role the reader plays for the unity of thetext’s sense, but he is also aware of the possibility of a readable“author function”; the reader himself is the one who makes usrealize the actual existence of authorship. Also discussed is Possenti’shypothesis that it is possible to look for traces of authorship, forexample, in a simple text. Finally the following definition of theconcept is proposed: authorship is a kind of linguistic and discursiveattitude, an act of inscription by which the agent takes one’s standand articulates foregoing discourses and a later reception, accordingto personal tactics and specific style.