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Broadly speaking, this paper engages with research on the possibility of conscious metaphor processing. In particular, it aims to look into the events in which linguistic metaphors being used in discourse could be deautomatized (Kyratzis, 2003) ‒ i.e., in which they could be recognized as metaphors ‒, as well as to look into discursive components which would be able to afford such a deautomatization. Based on the notions of conceptual metaphor (Lakoff; Johnson, 2002 [1980]) and metaphoricity (Müller, 2008), this paper proceeds with identification and analysis of both the occurrence of activation devices of metaphoricity and their effects upon metaphor use, in an attempt to account for how such use could become directly accessible to introspective consciousness. Outcomes from this investigation suggest that some cooccurring textual elements, such as certain adverbs, conjunctions, and images, would be able to afford the recognition of linguistic metaphors as such in discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By means of relevance theory, a cognitive approach to pragmatics, we propose in this paper an analysis that aims to simulate an interpretive process, applying some theoretical-analytical elements presented by the authors in their work Relevance, Communication and Cognition as well as subsequent papers. The purpose of the study is to examine, from a given perspective, the way in which inferential processes of understanding are generated from the questioning of two lawyers, in opposing positions, to the same witness and one of the defendants in the trial involving a couple of movie actors which took place recently in the State of Virginia, United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on scholarly works that are both ethnographically-based (such as Stephen Levinson and Elinor Ochs’s) and socially-based (such as Jacob Mey and Joana Pinto’s), this paper takes a particular stance on linguistic pragmatics. Originally named by Peirce and established as a perspective – rather than a discipline – pragmatics gathers researches from different traditions around the world. In departmental terms, people working on language from a pragmatic perspective may be affiliated with areas such as sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, neurolinguistics, etc., yet a family resemblance unites them: pragmatics seen as social science, which stands for both a field ethnographically oriented to the role, ideologies and agency of language users, and science “in society,” politically situated. The paper revisits language ethnographies in Oceania and Africa, in addition to semantically-oriented scholarship. I conclude, with Rajagopalan, that a diversity of problems investigated in pragmatics are refinements from subjects’ situated action [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we explore the topic of teacher education focused on teaching literature through a discursive analysis of interactions between two prospective teachers (undergraduate students) in a teaching, research, and extension project. Drawing on Sociodiscursive Interactionism and studies on literary literacies/literature literacy, we interpret the representations of teaching act concerning reading workshops conducted with students in a primary school. The analysis allows us to affirm that the participants are appropriating socially available pre-constructed knowledge and undergoing processes of awareness-raising regarding models of action that prioritize discursive communication and the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of interaction between primary school students and literary texts. We observe that this type of analysis during initial teacher education can help understand how prospective teachers discursively construct their professional knowledge in assigning meaning to teaching literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we focus on theoretical approach and analytical instrumentalization mobilized by Textual Linguistics to analyze the text that conjugates verbal and non-verbal elements (plurisemiotic text). We consider that research in the field can use either its own approach, designed for verbal text, or to other one, such as the Grammar of Visual Design, designed for non-verbal texts. Our goal is, therefore, to check the theoretical decision of researchers regarding the analysis of plurisemiotic texts and the scope of this decision. We carried out a meta-analysis of five micro-analyses extracted from Textual Linguistics papers on referencing in the plurisemiotic text. This analysis led us to think that the plurisemiotic text text has its own order, although it keeps formal and functional traits in common with an exclusively verbal text and an exclusively imagetic text. At laste we argue the development of a specific theoretical and methodological approach to plurisemiotic text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to understand the specificity of the discourse about the motherhood elaborated in the essays and the poetry by Adrienne Rich at the time of her feminist affirmation. Effectively, in establishing a continuity with Walt Whitman's tradition of rebel and democratic diction, Rich, to this day rarely read in Brazil, uses in her discourse the enumeration and the narrative mode to represent courageously the pain and the ambivalence related to the experience of motherhood. The violence of writing as well as the use of oneiric language that face the orphic patriarchal tradition linked to phonocentrism make the poetry by Rich conform to the theory of deconstruction in its subversive aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Martin Buber's invitation to the meeting with the I-Thou principle, is an ethical horizon in Vilém Flusser's thinking. Based on concepts defended by the Czech-Brazilian essayist, such as conversation, discourse and dialogue, this paper aims to interpret the author's own textual production - here, specifically in the autobiography Bodenlos. As a methodological contribution, by the very nature of the research, it uses bibliographic research and, consistent with the theoretical framework, privileges interpretation in place of analytical instruments. As results, it indicates the manifestation of the definition of communication proposed by Flusser - the relationship between dialogues and discourses - in the narratives produced by the author himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we take syllabus and the required bibliography from a higher education curriculum as our corpus of discourse data. We aim to contribute to the discussion about asymmetries of gender in the divulgation of scientific knowledge. Our approach falls within the scope of critical discourse studies of institutionalized daily practices, which are naturalized and reassure social inequality in the academic field. We base our theoretical-methodological proposal on the concepts of androcentrism, depatriarchization, gender equality, and Latin American thought. Because of the situated genre concept, we apply analytical categories of lexicon, interdiscursivity, and intertextuality. Our analysis indicates forms of men authorship primacy and underrepresentation of women, besides subordination of the academic gender to the bureaucratic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the partial result of a bigger project that seeks to understand the reception and particularities assumed by Bakhtinian thought in Brazil since its introduction in the 1970s to the present day. For doing so, it analyzes the texts that frame the Brazilian translations and (re)translations of the Bakhtinian work, examining which dialogical (evaluative) relationships can be observed in these frametexts: with whom they dialogue and to whom they are addressed at the time of their publication. This paper analyzes the Brazilian reception of the essays on Aesthetics of Verbal Creation, in the 1992 and 1997 editions, in the 2003 (re)translation, and also in subsequent publications, 2016 and 2017. The frame-texts of each of these editions show how reception, initially inserted in the tradition and continuity of a European and international academic scientific moment, has established itself institutionally over four decades, revealing new ways of reading and circulating the dialogical perspective of discourse in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the approach of the genre documentary in the Professor's notebook: guidelines for the production of the documentary genre, of the Portuguese Language Olympics, a textual production contest linked to the Writing the Future program, coordinated by the Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação, Cultura e Ação Comunitária (Center of Studies and Education Research, Culture and Communitarian Action). The objective is to verify in which way the proposal of the Notebook, aimed at the didacticization of the documentary, can possibly the development of new (multi)literacy in a positive case, in which the mobilized strategies work. Therefore, theoretical contribution is sought in the studies of literacy, with emphasis on the methodological-theoretical discussions about multiliteracy and new (multi)literacy. The analysis shows that the Notebook, even though not methodologically systematized from a didactic sequence, such as the other genres of the contest, gives support so that the professor can, from the semiotics instrumentalization of the documentary, develop new (multi)literacy with their students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze reader's place of speech in the Globo Rural magazine. To do that, the communication theories that focus the active role of the reception in the circularity of the communicative process are used. The corpus consists of 1170 texts published in the opinion section of 30 editions of the magazine between 1985 and 2015. The study uses a qualitative approach to investigate the place of speech that is demarked in the interaction between the public and the magazine and aims to connect it to the decoding positions, when assumed by the readers. The results show that the textual genre and the editorial format establish an inter-relation with the media consumers and, although the mediation through dialogue with an imagined rural subject is evident, it is not exclusive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study the use of the verbs “poder” and “conseguir” among basic level learners of Portuguese as a foreign language. These verbs in context are discussed from a semantic-pragmatic perspective, in the light of modal theories such as those of Kratzer (1977; 1981; 1991; 2008; 2012) and others, as well as the classical notions of “accomplishment” and “achievement”, according to Vendler (1957; 1967), Dowty (1979), Abusch (1985) and Smith (1997). Since the Brazilian-Portuguese (BP) and South American Spanish language pairs differ in several aspects, the objective is to verify weather or not non-facilitative transfer from Spanish to Portuguese occurs, according to Cabrelli et al. (2020). By analyzing the occurrences of these verbs in oral speech during classroom moments, the study suggests the possibility of adopting practices to raise awareness of these differences between BP and Spanish so that learners can use these forms appropriately according to their context of use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the meaning of tension based on Bakhtin and The Circle's concepts of comprehension and evaluation, considering that the construction of the meanings occurs in the encounter of two opposite poles, as an electric spark (VOLOSHINOV, 2017 [1973]). The research questions are two: what is tension as a theoretical reflection? What are the possible tension points when considering comprehension and evaluation in the texts selected among the works of Bakhtin and The Circle? After the data collection phase in papers of a specialized journal, we noticed three works in which we verified a recurrence of the concepts analyzed. Theoretical definitions and reflections about the meaning of tension lead to two centers of circulation of clashing values. Concerning the outcome of this research, comprehension and evaluation (two centers of value) act as a double of each other in the preparation of an active response by a speaker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to outline a theoretical path for a specific regime of enunciation named aphorization, which is developed in detail on Dominique Maingueneau's work entitled Frases sem texto (Les phrases sans texte, Paris, 2012), launched in Brazil in 2014. The theory of aphorization is a result of at least ten years of research, and with a bibliographic survey of publications about the subject from 2004 onwards, this paper makes explicit the progressive construction of the pragmatic statute for this regime of enunciation, specifically regarding to the notions of surassertion and aphorizer (the enunciator of an aphorization). It briefly discusses about enunciative responsibility in order to emphasize the development process of the subject of enunciation in this regime, as well as intends to clarify the terminological diversity concerning the concepts mobilized by this theory. At last, the research presents a theoretical review for beginners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the approximation between the Theory of Enunciation and the process of book production and publishing, this paper analyzes the participation of some agents that have been involved in the publishing supply chain of the book O sol na Cabeça, by the Brazilian writer Geovani Martins, concerning the promotion/publicizing of his book. In order to discussing the editing processes, this paper uses the discussions of Araújo (2012), Cavallo and Chartier (2001), Chartier (1998), and Thompson (2012). About the discussions involving the enunciation, the theoretical bases are the studies of Benveniste (1989, 1995), Bakhtin/Volóchinov (2009) and Bakhtin (2010). Furthermore, the Marx's (1996) view regarding the merchandise in the context of the capitalist economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diverse and productive ways of studying the word have been instituted in the field of language sciences. In this paper, the objective is to delineate epistemological and theoretical-methodological considerations regarding the study of the word as an ideological sign, from the writings of today called Bakhtin Circle and, more specifically, M. Bakhtin, V. Volóchinov and P. Medviédev. Therefore, the paper revisits the set of these works and returns to the main considerations developed there, centered on the constitutive relation existing among sign-ideology-word. The study aims to contribute to the understanding of the word as a semiotic-ideological dimension, placing the relevance of this discussion for idiom/language studies in the enunciative-discursive perspective and in the consolidation of the discursive studies, which in Brazil are called Dialogical Discourse Analysis (ADD). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the functioning of the journalistic discourse on the access of refugee students in Brazilian higher education. The research comprehends the period from 2015 to 2019, where the number of institutions with "easy access" increased significantly, as well as the visibility of those subjects in the media. We based the analysis on five discursive sequences, these extracted from five news, and selected from an archive containing 23 journalistic texts published on online portals in the aforementioned period. From the theoretical and methodological perspective of Franco-Brazilian discourse studies, and considering the specificities of the journalistic discourse in digital media, the study discusses different discursive practices that inscribe the university entrance as a promise of both socioeconomic insertion and integration in the country of arrival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to show the construction of Ciça's ethé, a comic book artist who became known for the comic strips series O Pato (The Duck), published in the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964-1985). There are not many references about her, although considered one of the main comic book artists in Brazil, information that justifies this study. The theoretical assumptions that support the analysis come from Rhetoric and New Rhetoric, especially the notion of ethos, which constitutes the image that speakers build of themselves and others in the discourse. As corpus of study, we particularly use the presentation texts in her works and interviews given by the artist herself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect over the need for insertion of research practices and discourse genres related to scientific research, both in primary and higher education schools. The theoretical framework was mainly the Bakhtinian and Swalesian approaches to discursive genres, in addition to works and documents about the insertion of research and literacy in genres at the different levels of education. The corpus consisted of twenty-eight questionnaires answered by students who are entering the Language and Litterature undergraduate course at a school in the federal education network regarding their experience with reading and producing genres applied to research, as well as the expectations of this pedagogical experience for their vocational training. The results signal a lack of didactics in order to teach academic genres and the need for investments in research from basic education to undergraduation, as a way to create a research culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a Critical Genre Analysis (CGA) of headlines and leads in six online hard news about a traffic accident involving two Brazilian citizens that summarize two socioeconomic classes: the dominant class (ACTOR 1) and the working class (ACTOR 2). Using the transitivity system of the Systemic Functional Grammar (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) and the taxonomy for representation of social events (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003), we aim to analyze how the media recontextualize the social event and its actors in order to create particular representations of them. The analysis reveals a set of grammatical and discursive mechanisms that produce the invisibilization of ACTOR 2 as a fatal victim of the accident, while mitigating the ACTOR 1's responsability for provoking the event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the importance of textbooks for teaching English in the classroom, this paper firstly explores the effectiveness of such materials for the teaching-learning process in the relation between verbal and iconographic language; secondly it also explores the ethnic and sociocultural representation of the characters presented in the texbook and its effects on teaching and learning. This study investigates the 11th grade English textbook used in Angolan schools, employing a qualitative and discursive analysis with use of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as theoretical and methodological foundation. The results show that verbal and visual approaches in the textbook do not always relate to or complement each other. Similarly, the asymmetrical ethnic representation encourages stereotypical behaviors of all kind, including social, ethnic and even racial prejudices on students, weakening their own identity as well as the concept of cultural plurality that can affect the teaching and learning in whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Grounded in the theoretical premises of Pêcheux's French branch of Discourse Analysis, this paper aims at theorizing over the subjective movements regarding the subject's process of identification in the midst of their first and foreign languages. The subject is, therefore, assumed as constituted by a double and simultaneous process of identification, one being of an ideological nature and another thought the subject's inscription in a language. From this standpoint, this paper concentrates on the latter process and presents how the subject's encounter with other ways of saying/speaking creates movements within the signification network. For this purpose, this analysis of an idiomatic expression is determined to demonstrate that the historicity of the first and foreign languages is not identical, which can trigger a subjective reconfiguration as the subject is inscribed in another linguistic materiality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to examine theoretical and epistemological methods and assumptions that underpin the study of the discourse guided by the Narrative Analysis. This area of research combines ethnographic techniques with analytical directives originated from Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics traditions. Our focus lies particularly on the relationship between the abovementioned field of study and the contemporary transdisciplinary social research, bringing examples from some researches carried out within the research group Narrative and Social Interaction (NAVIS). Moreover, we seek to contribute to the debate ignited by representation and validity crises when contemplating the practical repercussions of innovations stirred up from the current qualitative research scenario in the context of the group's researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes how the journalistic discourse becomes a stage for the discussions between different points of view about the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil when using the voice of science, supported by scientific knowledge, and the voice of the idiot, when combats the former voice. Our corpus consists of five headlines and five leads about the theme, published on the website of the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo between March 20 and 24, 2020. The dialogical relations analysis showed that journalistic discourse comes to be a bivocalization in the scientific discourse, expressing the voice of science diffusely; creates an arena of discussions between the voice of science and the voice of the idiot, bringing anti-science valuations when bivocalizes itself with the Bolsonarist discourse; and discredits the voice of the idiot, standing off from it through the quoted speech, as well as producing the effects of meaning over the Covid-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What are the ethical possibilities the universality has to offer to a humanity founded and sustained by inequality? This is what the paper want to stress, observing the discourse's affective trigger in two situations with ethical clash in the linguistic ethnography. It analyzes an interaction between a global north teacher and a South American doctoral student, both negotiating ethical boundaries to argue for a research ethics that is radically particular and contextual. To this end, this study also analyzes the mockery of participants in WhatsApp groups for intimate and spectacular performances regarding their request for consent. Such mockery evidences that, unlike the subjection of our collaborators to the bureaucratic methods of ours, it may be more ethical for the researcher to embrace the ethical model that meets the expectations of the community in which he operates, though. Prior to the analysis, there is a bibliographical review about ethics and colonialism that theoretically supports the discussion undertaken in this proposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Situated in the field of History of Linguistics Ideas, this paper offers an analysis in the field of History of Linguist Ideas of different definitions for the entry word gender in two language dictionaries and two specialized dictionaries. Our objective is to investigate how the exploration and silencing of sexual differentiation and gender identity act in different linguistic instruments. Based on the theoretical framework of the History of Linguistic Ideas developed by Collinot and Mazière (1997), as well as on Brazilian references (OLIVEIRA, 2006; NUNES, 1996), we reflect upon linguistic instruments and gramatization. Subsequently, we present the criteria for the construction of our corpus and proceed to the entries' analysis. The results point to a regularity that permeates the definitions of gender in both the language and the specialized dictionaries: its relations with categories and differences. The specificities that outline distinct meanings depend on the way the word gender functions in the knowledge fields that are included or excluded in each definition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect on the question of the subjectivity in self-help literature books, particularly in Treinando a emoção para ser feliz (2007a) - Training Your Emotion To Be Happy, in English - and 12 semanas para mudar uma vida (2007b) - Twelve Weeks to Change Your Life, in English -, two works of the Brazilian writer Augusto Cury. Based on the theoretical-methodological perspective of the Discourse Analysis (DA), especially the one developed by Michel Foucault, we mobilize some discussions about this matter. From a process of description and interpretation of the statements that compose the corpus, we identified, in the analyzed discourses, the mobilization of devices and practices in the subject's relations with himself. Those devices discursivize and work with the production of subjectivities in the contemporaneity, as well as they are in a field of the editorial production marked by given conditions of social and historical possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social networking websites, such as the Facebook, have become a place for political and ideological conflicts between the interlocutors, generating offensive language and identity disputes. This paper aims to present the contributions that the identity studies can provide to the impoliteness analysis (the use of language to cause offense) in online interactions. For this purpose, it proposes a qualitative and interpretative analysis of a Facebook post and its respective comments. The results suggest that the combined study between the impoliteness and identities is capable of showing that the offense processes in this online platform are normally inferential and rely on identification processes with the impoliteness in the texts. Las portadas de redes sociales, como Facebook, pueden servir de escenario de disputas políticas e ideológicas donde interlocutores entran en conflicto, generando lenguaje ofensivo y disputas identitarias. Así, ese artículo tiene el objetivo de presentar contribuciones que estudios de las identidades pueden proveer para análisis de la descortesía - uso de la lengua para causar ofensa - en interacciones en línea. Para ello, propone el análisis cualitativo de naturaleza interpretativa de un postaje y sus respectivos comentarios, colectados en Facebook. Los resultados sugieren que el estudio combinado entre descortesía e identidades haz posible demostrar que el proceso de ofensa en esa plataforma en línea es normalmente de inferencia, y depende de procesos de identificación con la descortesía presentes en los textos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses a postdoctoral research, which discursively analyzes The Avengers, aiming to examine eight enunciative sequences of the movie. Based on the Foucauldian perspective of archaeology and genealogy, we observe utterances regarding violence/peace; truth/untruth, and knowledge/unawareness. In the archaeology, the focus is in two basic concepts: discourse and utterance, where we observe the object, the fields of knowledge mobilized in/by it (religion/myth/ufology; technology/armamentism; history), and study the events around them. Regarding the genealogy, the reflection is on the relations between power and the production of homogenizing truths, as the latter is capable of universalizing cultures and ways of life. Two questions guide the analysis: what is the role of the circulated discourses in this Cinematographic Universe in order to create the subjects' imaginary? In addition, through an archaeological gesture, we question the connection between the media and the history of the present. It is noticeable that the Avengers are remarkable people, resembling the political-economic and arms power of USA, the possible cleverness of their heroes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Identity is currently a very important linguistic and social theme that comprehends relevant discussions in Applied Linguistics (REIS et al., 2011). Researches developed under different theoreticalmethodological orientations present the concept and its characterizations in distinct ways. Since it is a phenomenon instated in culture, the range of definitions and examples produced by various studies increases the identity's configuration. All this concept expansion seems significant to indicate a possible systematization to analyse, scientifically, the construct in the universe of language-mediated social relations. From these perspectives, this paper aims to systematize theoretical-methodological paths of the concept disseminated in Applied Linguistics studies. For this purpose, it uses the interdisciplinary aspects of the scientific research field, in order to present some characteristics of the identity and then discuss some approaches used in Applied Linguistics research, including taxonomic proposals for future analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to dislocate the debate on Portuguese language teaching away from nature and towards politics. Thereunto, it argues that to think of linguistic ideologies, understood as lay and specialized rationalizations about language form and function is equivalent to embedding teaching in politics, inasmuch as these ideologies are invested with the political interests of the groups holding them. Empirically, the paper questions the monolingual ideologies informing the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, or the federal curricula guidelines, and other discourses about the nation. It contrasts these ideologies with Fabian Severo's poetry in Spanguese and his rationalizations. The paper also gauges attachments and frictions in the context of language-ideological discussions of students who participated in a trans-lingual proposal of Portuguese language teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study the semiotics representations of the News Report genre. Thereunto, it analyzes two texts of this text genre of two Portuguese magazines: Visão and Sábado. For this analysis it follows the theoretical proposals of the Socio-discursive Interactionism and The Social Semiotics, including the methodological framework of The Grammar of Visual Design. Therefore, the current paper seeks to take into account the role of the nonverbal in the genre News Report and its relation to the social function of this genre. The results indicate that the meanings of representations are constructed from the social practices to meet the communicative function of the genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses part of a research project aiming to investigate texts about homelessness published between 2011 and 2013 in the newspapers Correio Braziliense, O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo. In this paper, we analyze only the 95 texts published in Correio Braziliense crossing the themes homelessness and violence, and the 19 images that compose these texts. To organize data, we have used software for qualitative analysis, and textual analyses were driven by critical discourse analysis and the grammar of visual design. Taken together, the results suggest the naturalization of violence against the homeless population, in a rhetorical effect of distancing, which does not provoke empathy between those who read the newspaper and the victims of the represented violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the objective is to sustain the hypothesis where the discourse is sometimes guided by a narcissistic functioning. It would simulate cordiality and flexibility, though not always, when, ultimately, it only aspires, strives hard to maintain itself in a personal mirroring to avoid controversy and revision. The corpus consists of some memes taken from Facebook posts. For this study, as a theoretical basis, we use assumptions of the French Discourse Analysis, some discussions mobilized in the Linguistic Pragmatics and, especially, Freud's theorization on the narcissistic desire of the individual in transforming the world into a mirror for self-reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the nationality regulation on radio and newspapers, trying to understand its effect over the language policy in those communication vehicles. For this purpose, we based the discussion on the Discourse Analysis and the History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil. The corpus involves the legislation for the mass media published during the Vargas Era (1930-1945). In general, we discuss how the nationality policy resulted in a policy for the languages on radio and the written press, when increased or limited the right to speak for native or naturalized Brazilians and foreigners. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the right to speak regulation was an attempt to control the discourse production causing a foreigner interdiction in those particular vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research finds support on Mikhail Bakhtin and the Russian Circle's ideas, concerning the language and its interaction within a social context. With this theoretical basis, the paper analyzes the Brazilian works No chão da fábrica, by Roniwalter Jatobá, and De mim já não se lembra, by Luiz Ruffato, both written in the 20th century. We focused on the socioeconomically deprived characters from poor regions of Brazil that migrated to São Paulo in search of a better (material) life. They restrain in their own speech, where stand out the social class contradictions, since there is a conflict between the degrading work conditions in the factory activities with which they are involved and a certain ennobling ideology within the labor universe. The working class assimilates what discursively elevates the bourgeois' labor, but the last clashes with the inhospitable reality of the labor setting; consequently, that conflict dislocates the discourse in relation to the quotidian praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the representation of police and juridical authorities in Goiás, Brazil during the first decades of the twentieth century through anecdotes presented in the Catholic newspaper Santuario da Trindade, which circulated from 1922 to 1931. Some theoretical notions offered by Mikhail Bakhtin, such as the ideas of "world carnivalization" and "grotesque realism", are essential to ponder on the humor present in this newspaper, since those anecdotes mocked the police force's action, demonstrating what the author characterized as the irreverence of the popular culture in relation to serious institutions. In this sense, those jokes are discursive productions from the popular order of Goiás and they are susceptible to assorted interpretations. That is to say they can be understood not only as instruments of humor - a great way to ease up daily tensions - but also as exponents of a collective mentality, which reveals certain ways of thinking of the country culture regarding the juridical and police actions in Goiás. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate signs of intrafamilial violence towards children and teenagers found in verbal and visual meanings in the digital game The Binding of Isaac (2011), drawing attention to its multimodality. The research's theoretical-methodological framework brought some specific concepts from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the Grammar of Visual Design (GVD), in order to detect possible visual processes, intertextualities, as well as interdiscursivities that could reveal signs of intrafamilial violence against children and teenagers as a social practice in the game. The results confirmed that the main character has all the features usually found in victims who experienced such kind of abuse. We conclude that the game acts as communication vehicle because it possesses the function of introducing and alerting players about such theme. With support of CDA, we hope this research can further contribute to the Social Semiotics consolidation, as an effective framework to investigate social practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows results of a study that analyzed some metaphoric and metonymic mappings. These were composed by twenty students of Brazilian Portuguese as an foreign language (L2) - namely, Spanish speakers as mother language (LI) - concerning two specific Brazilian Portuguese idioms (IDs), "meter os pés pelas mãos (to drop the ball) and "ter mão leve" (to be light-fingered: stealing unnoticed). In addition, th study analyzed a possible influence of the opacity level in the IDs with regard to the meaning apprehension process. As methodology, this research used individual interviews, through verbal protocols, to collect the data. The study findings corroborate the thesis where metaphoric knowledge influences online comprehension and processing of idioms in an L2 (GIBBS, 1995: KÕVECSES; SZABÓ, 1996: KAZEMI et al., 2013). Furthermore, those findings manifest two additional factors that influence both processes: transparency versus opacity levels between LI and L2 idioms, and singularity versus multiplicity of meaning between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on news of the rape of a 9-year-old child at Bororó village, located in the city of Dourados, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, this paper discusses how the cultural diversity of indigenous peoples is textualized in MS Record, the local TV news program. Supported by the French Line of Discourse Analysis and the study of social practices, this research analyzes how the television media, when questioning some aspects of the indigenous cultural identity through its supposed uniqueness and legitimacy, strikes out at the human rights and diversity, mostly contesting "privileges" given to indigenous people. Among the power relations inherent to the journalistic discourse and the historicity of the analyzed event, there is a effacement of the crime itself in relation to the (lack of) indianity. Ultimately, there is a dissemination of a prejudiced and discriminatory discourse towards them, particularly about how the courts and Brazilian indigenous protection organizations understand their own native people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to contribute to text studies based on 1) Genres Theory as social practices; 2) a possible typological overlap in genres; and 3) 011 the relation between genre and intentionality through a pragmatics approach. Particularly, we investigate if four ninth grade students would understand the conversational maxims break as an expressive resource to produce humor; and if they would perceive the argumentative content of these narrative-based dialogues. This analysis takes part into three comic strips featuring Armandinho. the questioning boy. Sustained 011 the interpretivist paradigm, we do a linguistic data analysis, instrumentalized by discussions about speech acts and the breaking of the conversational maxim of manner. The results indicate that those students understand that the breaking of the maxim of manner constructs the humor of the comic strips; nevertheless, they do not seem to comprehend the linguistic phenomenon also as a participant in the argumentativeness implied in the lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A set of notions in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), which imply to (re-)evaluate ontological commitments, are discussed when theoretical models turn to different fields of application. Theoretically, the paper revisits sayings abaout categorization, conceptualization, embodied cognition, situated cognition, grounding (embodied, experiential, sociocultural, interactional, and discursive), cognitive and cultural models are revisited. Starting from issues surrounding the basic notions of cognition/situated conceptualization and grounding, we enlighten cases of linguistic analyses, where terms, such as cognitive models and cultural models, are employed interchangeably, improperly defined or without an establishment of pertinent distinctions. Therefore, the discussion about grounding in the Social Turn in CL reveals that it is paramount to create the proper distinctions between these two theories, because it implies, ultimately, resituating the notion of embodiment within the contemporary CL and its theoretical-ontological, theoretical-methodological entailments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do researchers do to take up again, in their writings, the discourse of other people? This paper analyses the modalities of insertion of other people's discourse in a text, by distinguishing metaphrase and paraphrase, which refer to the autonomy or assimilation of other people's discourse. We mobilize a contrastive analysis that investigates the different modalities conducted in research and teaching texts written by Brazilian Applied Linguistics colleagues and French didactics colleagues. The research results confirm the initial hypothesis: the enunciative modalities in the insertion of other peoples's discourse allow, to a certain extent, a generic characterization concerning different academic discourses: teaching texts privilege the paraphrase, and research texts privilege the metaphrase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The universe of Brazilian popular music is full of passionate elements, but the genre that used the passion as style was the samba-canção (in English, literally "samba-song"). In this paper, based on semiotic notions, we analyse the passions in the discourse of this musical genre, trying to understand how the passionate sense effects in its composition are elaborated. In this regard, guided by A. J. Greimas renowed essay De la colère, we made an excerpt consisted by the songs As rosas não falam (1976), Volta (1978), Quern há de dizer (1972), Atiraste uma pedra (1958), Vingança (1972) e Castigo "(191%). When observing passional courses, they serve as strategy to perform a reading of that musical genre. In brief, we work with the passions, which determine the passional course of revenge, inserted in the cholera course, in order to reveal the treatment provided to them in samba-canção 's compositions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discuss about the influence of the cultural aspects on the phraseological units with zoonyms (PHUz), expressions that carry a zoonym in their composition. The PHUz reflect the history and culture of the people who use them, and they include idiomatic expressions from Brazilian Portuguese language such as ser um bagre ensaboado (to be as slippery' as an eel). We mobilize some theoretical foundations about Phraseology, including Manca (2008). Hall ([1976] 1989), Malinowski (1922, 1923, 1935), Corpas Pastor (1996), Corpas Pastor and Mena Martinez (2004), Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1987, 1990), etc. Cultural aspects influence on the phraseological units and allow the appearance of interlinguistic coincidences, cultural windows that foment the universal dimension, and possess, in the conceptual metaphors, the origin of certain phraseology sms. The methodology presents some PHUz in Brazilian Portuguese with functional correspondences in English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the textual/discursive studies in the 1980s, the concept of event was introduced in discourse analysis by Pêcheux. From the 2000s, other theoretical perspectives, such as the semantics of the event, which appropriates the AD definition in this own way, relates the enunciation as an event of historical-social nature to language (the system). A third line of discourse studies is the French semiotics, specifically its tensive semiotics, also develops another notion of event its own way: something unexpectedand impactful. Thereunto, this paper seeks to bring together the commonalities about the concept of event from those theories, but it mainly pursues emphasize their conceptual and epistemological differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theoretical horizon of the Political Analysis of Discourse (APD) affirms the political ontology of all identity, from a particular conception of language, of social discourses and of the subject. By postulating the ultimate impossibility of the society as a meaningful totality fully and stably articulated, this transdisciplinary perspective investigates the conflict inherent in the historicity and contingency of any identity process, analyzing the struggles for hegemony around differences and antagonisms in the social space. The APD incorporates conceptual tools from different fields of knowledge (such as post-structuralist linguistics, post-Marxist political theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophical thinking of deconstruction). In this paper we present a review and assessment of its main contributions to social analysis in Latin America, as it constitutes a particular epistemological elaboration to address the political-discursive dimension of disputes over hegemony and social meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the inversion of the relation of possession in constructions of the type "Sou seu x" ('I am your x')", in which x is replaced by a social function of kinship or proximity through an interface between morphosyntax and discourse analysis. Data under investigation were collected from a specific methodology on a web search site aiming at observing the occurrence of six constructions in context of usage (i) "Sou seu marido" ('I am your husband'); (ii) "Sou sua mulher" ('I am your wife'); (iii) "Sou seu pai" ('I am your father'); (iv) "Sou sua mãe" ('I am your mother'); (v) "Sou seu amigo" ('I am your (male) friend'; (vi) 'Sou sua amiga' ('I am your (female) friend'). In this type of construction, the interpretation of possession, not rarely, the interpretation of possession functions inversely. In fact, the nominal term possessed, at the morphosyntactic level, becomes a possessor term at the discourse level, especially in authoritarian utterances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the widespread use of hashtags on Twitter, the purpose of this paper is to analyze how hashtags were used to express love and hate for candidates who ran for presidency in Brazil in 2018. The theoretical framework of the (Im)Politeness theory was the foundation for data analysis, together with studies concerning digital conversational style (SCOTT, 2015). From September 6 to October 6, 2018, around 3000 tweets posted by the presidential candidates and their followers were collected daily. Overall, the results indicate that hashtags served as strategies to intensify the manifestation of support for a candidate particularly, in posts on their competitor's profile or to explicitly attack their rivals. Further, aggressive and unjustified content was manifested, displaying derogatory content, which was superficial and not carefully elaborated and/or rationalized. This usage points to an anti-debate, marked by hashtags paradoxically conveying support and attack, and by linguistic impoliteness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes questions and answers - a type of sequence that is constitutive of police interrogations. By means of Multimodal Conversation Analysis, it investigates how the safeguarding of information concerning crimes unfolds in police interrogations. A fine-grained sequential and multimodal analysis of the audio and/or video recorded interrogations reveals that the safeguarding of information is accomplished not only by the interrogated suspects in their responsive actions, but also ensued by the police officers by means of their question design. Interrogated suspects safeguard facts about crimes by resisting in providing the information requested in responsive turns that do not answer but that instead claim lack of knowledge, remembrance or awareness. Police officers, on the other hand, afford and initiate suspects' information safeguarding by designing questions with verbs as to know and to remember. Such question design vouchsafes suspects to negate knowledge and remembrance of the requested information while aligning with the preference of the question format and presenting no resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]