#Partiu

Construction Grammar and Multimodal Language

Abstract

We understand language as a network of constructions organized in hierarchical and inheritance relationships. Each construction is a pairing of form and meaning, instantiated within the grammar into cognitive patterns motivated by pragmatic, discursive and semantic contexts of interaction. In order to guarantee communicability, speakers make innovations in the form and meaning of grammatical constructions, revitalizing the functioning of the language in the intersection of different language supports. In this approach, we are affiliated with Constructional Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics, with authors such as Goldberg (1995; 2006), Bybee (2016), Traugott and Trousdale (2013), Fillmore (1982), Fauconnier (1997), Ferrari, Guedes and Avelar (2019), among others. By assuming that multimodal languages in virtual interaction contexts influence the way speakers have organized their grammar, we propose to describe, from a non-systematized corpus in a synchronic perspective, the uses of the construction #partiu, in the correlations between the constitution of its structure and the discursive and pragmatic contexts. Among the correlations found, the most productive are the posts that link the user's profile image to the #partiu construction, highlighting a pragmatic subject who composes frames of invitation to his interlocutor or of self-promotion.