http://hdl.handle.net/11422/104 2026-07-30T06:30:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29846 Title: Cadeias referenciais de personagens femininas no conto de fadas Cinderela Author(s)/Inventor(s): Correia, Júlia Vieira Advisor: Santos, Leonor Werneck dos Abstract: This Thesis, affiliated with the field of Text Linguistics, focuses on the recategorization processes of female protagonists and antagonists in the fairy tale “Cinderella,” in the versions by Perrault (2013) and Grimm (2021). The justification lies in the fact that, belonging to Children's and Young Adult Literature, fairy tales hold significant influence on society, explicitly or implicitly shaping generations and their positions. From this, the hypothesis posits a referential process filled with argumentative orientations (Koch; Elias, 2020 [2016]) that contrast the female characters, potentially marking a sexist ideological perspective. Thus, the general objective is to demonstrate, through referencing, that female protagonists are described following the stereotype of fragile, passive, and suffering women, while female antagonists follow the pattern of being strong, active, and aggressive. The specific objectives are: i) to analyze the referential chain RC1 of the discourse object “protagonist” (Cinderella), verifying the construction of stereotypes; ii) to analyze the referential chains RC2 and RC3 of the discourse objects “antagonists” (stepmother and stepsisters); iii) to observe how the intertwining of the main referential chain with the secondary chains may contribute to the recategorization of the protagonist. For this purpose, the theoretical foundation draws on various materials, such as those by Coelho (1991), Tatar (2013), Colomer (2003, 2017), Michelli (2004, 2020), Feres (2023), regarding Children's and Young Adult Literature; and by Bentes (2000, 2001), Marcuschi (2001, 2008), Mondada and Dubois (2003), Cavalcante (2003, 2011, 2013), Cavalcante and Santos (2012, 2014), Koch and Elias (2020, 2017), among others, regarding referencing. The corpus consists of two classic European fairy tales translated into Portuguese. Methodologically, a qualitative approach to the corpus was employed, complemented by a quantitative perspective on the recurrence of certain uses and their sense effects. Finally, the results reveal how the referential chains of protagonists and antagonists in these classic texts construct ideologically marked discourse objects.; Esta Tesis, afiliada al área de la Lingüística del Texto, tiene como tema los procesos de recategorización de las protagonistas y antagonistas femeninas en el cuento de hadas “Cenicienta”, versión de Perrault (2013 ) y de Grimm (2021 ). La justificación se basa en el hecho de que, al pertenecer a la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, los cuentos de hadas presentan un elevado poder de influencia en la sociedad, marcando explícita o implícitamente a las generaciones y sus posicionamientos. Partiendo de esto, planteamos la hipótesis de que existe un proceso referencial repleto de orientaciones argumentativas (Koch; Elias, 2020 [2016]) que contraponen a los personajes femeninos, lo que podría marcar una perspectiva ideológica sexista. Así, el objetivo general es comprobar, mediante la referencia, que las protagonistas femeninas se describen siguiendo el estereotipo de mujeres frágiles, pasivas y sufridoras, mientras que las antagonistas femeninas siguen el patrón de ser fuertes, activas y agresivas. Los objetivos específicos son: i) analizar la cadena referencial CR1 del objeto de discurso “protagonista” (Cenicienta), verificando la construcción de estereotipos; ii) analizar las cadenas referenciales CR2 e CR3 del objeto de discurso “antagonistas” (madrastra y hermanastras); iii) observar de qué forma el entrecruzamiento de la cadena referencial principal con las cadenas secundarias puede contribuir a la recategorización de la protagonista. Para ello, como fundamentación teórica, este estudio tendrá como respaldo diversos materiales, como los publicados por Coelho (1991), Tatar (2013), Colomer (2003, 2017), Michelli (2004, 2020), Feres (2023), en lo que se refiere a la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil; y por Bentes (2000, 2001), Marcuschi (2001, 2008), Mondada y Dubois (2003), Cavalcante (2003, 2011, 2013), Cavalcante y Santos (2012, 2014), Koch y Elias (2020 , 2017 ), entre otros, en lo que se refiere a la referencia. El corpus está compuesto por dos cuentos de hadas clásicos europeos, traducidos a la lengua portuguesa. Como metodología, realizamos un enfoque cualitativo del corpus, pero también hay una mirada cuantitativa, en lo que se refiere a la recurrencia de determinados usos y sus efectos de sentido. Finalmente, como resultados, verificamos cómo las cadenas referenciales de las protagonistas y antagonistas, en estos textos clásicos, construyen objetos de discurso marcados ideológicamente. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29826 Title: Inovações lexicais com modificação sonora intencional no português brasileiro: uma análise a partir da Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso Author(s)/Inventor(s): Alves, Jady Geovana Veroneses Advisor: Gonçalves, Carlos Alexandre Victorio Abstract: Human beings constantly seek to find meaning through words, one of the main forms of expression and social interaction. From this expressive need, beyond neologisms, emerge lexical innovations marked by phonetic-phonological modifications that attribute new connotations to vocabularies. This is observed in forms such as cabelitcho, gatim, and véia, constructed from processes of palatalization, deletion of the final unstressed vowel, and vocalization, respectively, which confer values of affectivity, humor, playfulness, or even euphemism. This work investigates innovations such as these in Brazilian Portuguese from the perspective of Usage-Based Functional Linguistics (UBFL), considering that language is a dynamic system, constantly updated by the creativity of its speakers, especially in digital contexts. The research corpus consists of written occurrences collected mainly from social media (Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok), categorized into five main characteristics: palatalization of plosives, deletion of final unstressed vowels, vocalization, depalatalization, and onomatopoeia. The methodology combines qualitative analysis – based on concepts from the LFCU (Language Pathology and Communication), such as perspectivization, analogization, constructionalization, frequency, and indexical function – and quantitative analysis, through perception tests applied to informants of different age groups and genders. The results show that sound processes transcend purely phonological conditioning, consolidating themselves as discursive-attitudinal resources that index social identities, reinforce affective bonds, and contribute to the conventionalization of new forms. Thus, sound intentionality expands the lexicon of Brazilian Portuguese and demonstrates the creative and active capacity of speakers to renew the language based on sociopragmatic and subjective motivations. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese 2026-02-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29823 Title: Construções intensificadoras de verbos no português brasileiro: usamos pra cachorro Author(s)/Inventor(s): Alvarenga, Déborah Ribeiro de Advisor: Vieira, Marcia dos Santos Machado Abstract: Intensification is a widely recognized linguistic phenomenon in natural languages, characterized by the use of formal resources that amplify, reinforce, or emphasize the degree of properties, events, or states of affairs. With this phenomenon in view, this dissertation investigates non-traditional intensifying expressions associated with verbal predicates in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on constructions formed by (i) nouns denoting units of measurement, (ii) nouns referring to bodies of water, and (iii) prepositional phrases containing animal nouns, as in chorar litros ‘cry liters’, sorrir mares ‘smile seas’, and trabalhar pra cachorro ‘work like a dog’. Grounded in the assumptions of Functional-Cognitive Linguistics (Bybee, 2010) (Traugott & Trousdale, 2013), Usage-Based Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 1995) and Sociolinguistics (Labov, 1994; 2001; 2010), the study adopts a view of intensification as a semantically and argumentatively motivated resource that is socially acquired and discursively shaped. The 1017 intensification data were collected from electronic corpora (Sketch Engine and Corpus do Português), with particular attention to discursive practices circulating in digital environments. The analysis combines qualitative and quantitative procedures, taking into account linguistic and extralinguistic variables such as verb type, subject properties, animacy, evaluative content and constructional productivity. The study aims to map, describe, and categorize the form-function patterns of these constructions, examining their distribution, degree of conventionalization, and behavior as possible allostructions of a more abstract intensifying metaconstruction. In doing so, the dissertation contributes to the understanding of constructional variation in Brazilian Portuguese and to ongoing discussions about the role of metaphorically motivated units — such as measures, animals, and bodies of water — in the sociocultural conceptualization of intensity and in the construction of discursive and argumentative effects. The analysis shows that the choice among intensifiers is not random but constrained by factors such as event evaluation, subject type, the replicability of the situation in experiential reality, text genre, and degree of communicative proximity. The constructions under investigation promote hyperbolic readings, frequently associated with discursive effects of exaggeration, dramatization, and expressivity, and may occur either in isolation or in enumerative sequences that establish scalar gradation. Finally, it is argued that these constructions reflect a sociocultural conceptualization of intensity anchored in the speaker’s embodied experience, whereby states, processes, and events are understood and evaluated through physically and culturally salient parameters. By mapping these constructions within a network of intensifiers in Brazilian Portuguese, this research contributes to the description of constructional variation and aligns with the goals of the PREDICAR Project – Formation and expression of complex predicates and predications: stability, variation, and constructional change! (PREDICAR), providing empirical and theoretical evidence for the analysis of intensification from a socioconstructionist perspective. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação 2026-02-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29820 Title: Uma análise diacrônica da sintaxe dos clíticos pronominais em peças de teatro portuguesas e brasileiras: história social e contato Author(s)/Inventor(s): Oliveira, Fernanda Elias Borges de Advisor: Duarte, Maria Eugenia Lammoglia Abstract: This dissertation aims to compare the grammars of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP), based on an analysis of the syntax of clitics, one of the main factors of distinction between both varieties. To achieve it, besides grammatical aspects, this work takes into account factors linked to Brazilian socio-history that influenced the formation of BP, such as the contact with Bantu languages and the history of Brazilian (il)literacy, which adopted EP as a model, despite the different paths followed by both varieties. We highlight the contributions of Pagotto (1998), who attests that enclisis was used in Brazil during the 19th century to imitate EP syntax, although proclisis was dominant in Classical Portuguese, which had reached Brazil during the colonial period. We conducted a statistical analysis based on Parametric Sociolinguistics, associating the Theory of Variation and Change (Weinreich; Labov; Herzog, 2006 [1968]) to grammatical descriptions of the phenomenon based on generative syntax studies. The data comes from theatre plays written between 1840 and 1990, in which we expect to find an approximation between 19th century and early 20th century EP and BP, in addition to the subsequent implementation of a Brazilian norm that avoided proclisis until the first decades of the 20th century, followed by the recovery of aspects found in CP and the implementation of Brazilian innovations in the system. Meanwhile, EP remains stable, since it had already gone through a series of changes that favored enclisis in the absence of proclisis attractors. The hypotheses are based on the fact that Brazilian playwrights from the beginning of the 19th century were part of a literate minority that corresponded to 0.5% of the country's population (Houaiss, 1988 [1985]). Educated in Lisbon or in exclusive Brazilian schools, they reproduced Portuguese syntax, opting for enclisis and using clitics that, in BP, are the result of schooling, not of language acquisition. We argue that the indefinite clitic se, and the third person accusative o and the dative lhe are frequently used in 19th - century plays due to the same attempt to bring BP closer to EP. Nevertheless, their abandonment over time and the preference for variant forms reveal that such forms have never been part of Brazilians’ natural repertoire. The statistical analysis uses the Goldvarb-X logistic program. The results confirm the attempt to reproduce EP in the early synchronies and clarify the moment in diachrony when Brazilian plays begin to reveal the grammar of vernacular BP. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação 2026-02-25T00:00:00Z