http://hdl.handle.net/11422/19 2026-07-31T06:27:20Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29875 Title: A variação dos pronomes nós e a gente em função de sujeito em duas variedades africanas do português: um estudo sociolinguístico Author(s)/Inventor(s): Oliveira, Isabella Barreto Meneses Advisor: Brandão , Silvia Figueiredo Abstract: This quantitative and qualitative research aims to analyze the variation between the pronouns nós and a gente as subjects in urban varieties of Mozambican Portuguese (MP) and Santomean Portuguese (STP), with the main objective of determining the linguistic and social factors that condition the use of the pronoun a gente in place of nós. It also aims to assess the stage of implementation of the innovative variant in each of the research areas, as well as the possible influence of national languages on the performance of the interviewees. To this end, the theoretical and methodological apparatus of the Theory of Variation and Change (Weinreich, Labov; Herzog, 2006 [1968]) and Variationist Sociolinguistics (Labov, 2008 [1972]) is used. The corpora used as the basis for this investigation includes data from eighteen interviews from the Corpus Moçambique-Port (Vieira; Pissurno, 2016), belonging to the project “Comparative study of agreement patterns in african, brazilian and european varieties of Portuguese”; and seventeen interviews from the Project “Variedades do Português”– VAPOR, from the Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon. Informants from both varieties were classified according to sex, three age groups, and three levels of education. Due to the multilingualism that characterizes the studied areas, the variables “Status of Portuguese” (L1 or L2) and “Individual’s language(s) of intercommunication” were controlled for the classification of mozambicans, while for the stratification of santomean informants, the variable “Frequency of use of a creole” was added. Five structural variables were also considered. The results, obtained using the statistical program GoldVarb-X, reveal the conservative behavior of the MP and STP informants, since the variant a gente expresso reached rates of 6.9% in the MP and 20.1% in the STP variety. It is observed that, in the MP, a gente expresso has a higher probability of occurrence in the discourse of individuals with medium education (p.r. .71) and aged between 36 and 55 years (p.r. .68). In the STP, the innovative form has higher rates in the speech of women (p.r. .66) and among those with primary education (p.r. .64). Additionally, the frequency of the expressed forms of nós and a gente in each of the informants is analyzed, as well as the role of social variables in the two samples. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29873 Title: A construção de uma Romanitas cristã como fenômeno de recepção clássica: leituras cristãs de Virgílio nos séculos II a V Author(s)/Inventor(s): Santos, Israel Matheus Siqueira Advisor: Moniz, Fábio Frohwein de Salles Abstract: This dissertation investigates how Christian receptions of Virgil, especially of the fourth eclogue, between the 2nd and 5th centuries, participate in the formation of a Christian Romanitas. Starting from the theoretical framework of Classical Reception Studies, the study describes Christian Romanitas as the result of a dynamic process of acculturation and identity reconfiguration, in which Roman symbolic and literary capital is appropriated and transposed into the Christian imaginary. The study is organized into three parts. First, we present the field of Classical Reception Studies and outline an operational vocabulary, which allows for distinguishing merely scholastic uses of Virgil from deliberate strategies of identity legitimation. Next, we analyze the fourth eclogue on its own literary and historical terms, showing how the eschatological motifs and the indeterminacy of the child described in the poem create an interpretive potential explored by later Christian readers. Finally, we examine Christian receptions of Virgil in Minucius Felix, Lactantius, in the Oratio ad sanctorum coetum attributed to Constantine, in Proba’s Virgilian cento, in Jerome, and in Augustine. In each case, we describe the concrete operations of reception and their discursive functions. The central hypothesis is that such receptions constituted creative interventions of legitimation that positioned Christianity as the qualified heir and consummator of Roman culture, articulating doctrinal ruptures with discursive continuity. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação 2026-03-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29867 Title: Obra consumada: uma abordagem estética da moda feminina, no Rio de Janeiro entre 1932 e 1947 Author(s)/Inventor(s): Nacif, Maria Cristina Volpi Advisor: Barbosa, Guilherme Sias Abstract: Unavailable. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação 1993-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29861 Title: Estudo de construções negativas do português do Brasil em enunciados de questões objetivas de concursos Author(s)/Inventor(s): Silva, Maria José Dias Pinesso da Advisor: Maia, Marcus Antonio Rezende Abstract: This study focuses on the analysis of negative constructions in Portuguese present in the statements of exam questions. It aimed to investigate the gap in the analysis of negation in objective exam questions. An experimental methodology was used, employing eye tracking and analysis of a corpus of questions presented by exam boards. The study was developed in two stages. The first stage involved an experiment with eye tracking to verify how negative sentences were read compared to affirmative sentences. Online studies were conducted, with the reading of negative and affirmative sentences using the eye-tracking device, in order to verify the readers' gaze behavior, including eye movements such as regressions, fixations, and saccades during the reading of negative sentences, and subsequently compared with the reading of the same sentences in their affirmative versions. Based on the analysis of the differences observed in the readings, it was noticed that reading negative structures seemed more costly than reading affirmative structures. Bearing this in mind, the second stage involved analyzing exam questions with statements containing negative words to explore a possible relationship between the use of negative commands and the number of successful candidates. The intention was to investigate whether the higher processing cost of reading negative sentences could somehow interfere with the formulation of exam questions and the number of successful candidates. An analysis of questions from three exam boards was conducted through searches on the boards' websites (Vunesp, AOCP, and Publiconsult) and preparatory courses for competitive exams, as well as online interviews with members of the commissions. The results of the experiment in the first stage and the question analyses suggested that negative structures appear to have a higher linguistic processing cost, and therefore, the results obtained suggest that statements containing these structures may demand greater cognitive effort during reading processing. In this sense, the hypothesis arises that the use of such structures, in evaluative contexts, may influence the performance of candidates. However, this possibility should be interpreted with caution, since it is not a causal relationship directly tested in this study, but an exploratory inference that requires further investigation in future research. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z