AMOR E ADOLESCÊNCIA NOS DIAS DE HOJE: UMA ANÁLISE SISTÊMICO-FUNCIONAL.

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between teenagers and the feeling of love through their lexical-grammatical and semantic-discursive choices, considering the principles of the Transitivity System of Systemic-Functional Linguistics. The research corpus consists of 25 personal reports produced by teenagers between the ages of 17 and 18 from a public high school in the countryside of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The results showed that the teenagers' role is still much more connected to the Receiver category (56%), that is, the one affected by this feeling. The love received, in most cases, is signaled as the Phenomenon of perceptive mental clauses, indicating that teenagers feel loved by other people, rather than the Lover category (44%), in which the subject is responsible for loving someone else or something, the result of being the Senser of emotive mental clauses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]