The semantic study of the temporal-aspectual phenomena, such as temporal reference, aspect and actionality, is an important area of the Semantic of Events. One of the main objectives in this research field is the delimitation ...

Brazilian Portuguese interjections form a heterogeneous and productive grammatical class, whose items are commonly associated with the idea that they “express feelings and emotions of the speaker”, but in fact these items ...

This research investigates the meanings attributed to the word “science” in discourses of scientific divulgation the way it is built on an important communication device: Pesquisa FAPESP magazine. It is seen, here, as a ...

For a long time, linguistics in Brazil developed, basically, from reflections undertaken from european and north american theoretical models, whose objective was to choose (or import) a certain vision about the language ...

Locative verbs establish a relation of localization between the elementary parts of a sentence: subject and complements (la mujer puso las llaves en la mesa). The aim of this work is to create a first version of a ...

In this work, based on materialist Discourse Analysis, we analyze linguistic formulations of Evo Morales and Lula da Silva, extracted from their respective first presidential inaugurations. We discuss issues concerning ...

The feminism, as well as circulating in other spheres of communication, is a subject that has been discussed mainly on the web; it is possible to notice a growing circulation of texts about the referred movement in different ...

According to Angela Kleiman, “every text can in principle favor critical reflection; on the other hand, every text can also be trivialized by schoolwork ” (KLEIMAN, 2007, p. 105). Thus, it is in the inadequate way of ...

We value ourselves from the hit "Ai, si te tego" (TELÓ et al., 2011), viral because of the insertion in multiple discursive practices (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001), and its translations into the English language and the Spanish ...

This work aims at describing the relations between predicative nouns and their arguments, establishing their frequency while seeking syntactic and semantic correlations with such numbers. In order to describe predicate and ...