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An investigation of the intertextual relations of strict and broad allusions in advertising posts shared on Instagram from a Text Linguistics’ perspective
In recent decades, in an interactional sociocognitive perspective, Textual Linguistics theorists have developed studies focused on textual-discursive strategies in multimodal texts. Adopting this perspective, this article investigated the intertextual phenomena of strict and broad allusion in advertisements shared as Instagram posts. To do so, we based it on theories about the text, especially about intertextuality and advertising on Instagram (Piza, 2012; Sousa and coauthors, 2020; Pinto; Batista, 2021; Machado, 2024). Using a qualitative, documentary and descriptive methodology, we selected four advertisements published on the Hershey’s Brasil company account. Next, we described their contents and semiotic compositions to verify how strict and broad allusions manifest in them. The results demonstrate that the posts use both broad and strict processes to construct the company's advertising messages – including the simultaneous occurrence of both phenomena in the same text – so that modes such as images, colors and typography also perform both allusive functions. It is important to note the relevance of studies focused on this and other phenomena in multimodal texts, in order to expand other analytical categories and textual genres and to undertake reflections on new ways of textualizing, enhanced by digital technologies.
The race marker and the power of control over the body
This article examines how, throughout history, racism has functioned as a technology of disciplinary power directed at Black bodies, drawing on Foucault’s (1987) reflections on the production of docile, useful, and manageable bodies. By understanding the body as a surface on which power is inscribed and as a privileged target of disciplinary practices, we analyze how the social marker of race has been historically constituted as a device of domination that legitimizes physical, symbolic, and epistemic violence. Grounded in this framework, we examine how Beyoncé and Sojourner Truth reveal different modes of capture, control, and circulation of images of Black women. The combined analysis of these cases allows us to identify the persistence of controlling images that update colonial logic and keep Black bodies under surveillance, domestication, and stigmatization. We conclude that such mechanisms reinforce the need to understand the articulation between power, race, and the body as a central axis for analyzing contemporary forms of subjugation, as well as for questioning false forms of representativity that often merely reconfigure old structures of oppression.
The exclusion of Spanish from the New High School Reform
This article offers a critical analysis of the removal of the mandatory teaching of Spanish in Bill 5,130/2023, approved by the Federal Chamber on 07/09/2024, and in Law 14,945/2024, which restructured the New Secondary Education model. Grounded in the framework of linguistic educational policy (Shohamy, 2009; Lagares, 2018; Arnoux, 2020), the study investigates how political, economic, and geopolitical disputes shape the exclusion of Spanish from the Brazilian curriculum. Methodologically, it develops a documentary research approach (Prior, 2003; May, 2004), based on the analysis of linguistic instruments —bills, official documents, and expert statements— published between 2016 and 2024. The central objective is to reconstruct the historical trajectory of Spanish within basic education and to understand the political context that enabled its removal. The results reveal that this decision reflects pressure from private sectors interested in reorganizing public education and a limited conception of plurilingualism that, paradoxically, restricts students’ access to additional languages. Furthermore, the findings highlight a disregard for the established trajectory of teacher education and a distancing from the constitutional principle of Latin American integration. The study concludes that the exclusion of Spanish represents a socio-educational and democratic setback, while resistance movements reaffirm the language as a linguistic right and a tool for inclusion.
Practice of linguistic-semiotic analysis in the reading process
This article aims to analyze a text-enunciated in specific communication situation, for studies of language practices in the educational field. The research question seeks to investigate the extent to which practice of linguistic-semiotic analysis (PAL-S) contributes to the development of reading skills in the process of literacy for social practices. The research —of a theoretical, qualitative-interpretative nature and with explanatory purposes—, is based on the assumptions of Linguistic Applied (LA) (Moita-Lopes, 2006; Kleiman; Vianna; De Grande, 2019), from the dialogical perspective of language (Bakhtin, 2016[1979]; Volóchinov, 2018[1929]) and the studies of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996; Rojo, 2009, 2013; Moura, 2012, 2019; Rojo; Barbosa, 2015). Data generation happens through indirect documentation —anchored in specialized literature, as well as from the investigative corpus, resulting from posting on social networks. The method of analysis and interpretation of information is dialectical, with technical procedures of historical and comparative nature. As results, it is noticed that in the initial and continuing training of mother tongue teachers, a fruitful way to expand reading abilities is through the study of (multi)literacies for social practices, anchored in LA and in the dialogical perspective of language, as well as the development of PAL-S in the reading process.
This study investigated the discursive dynamics of vaccine denialism on Facebook in 2020. The goal was to identify anti-vaccine discourses within the context of the clinical trials for the development of Coronavac. The study includes eight public posts in Portuguese related to the episode of the suspension of the Butantan Institute's vaccine trials (developed in partnership with the Chinese laboratory Sinovac) due to the death of a volunteer. The corpus was obtained from a survey of 45,097 public posts in Portuguese made on Facebook between March 17 and November 30, 2020, that included at least one of the two terms: “Chinese vaccine” or “Coronavac.” The data collection was carried out using CrowdTangle, a digital tool from Meta Platforms. To conduct the study, we relied on the theoretical framework of Digital Discourse Analysis (Paveau, 2021), in addition to the concepts of discursive virtue (Paveau, 2015) and pre-discourse (Paveau, 2013). We identified metaphors and antitheses used by speakers aiming to fuel vaccine hesitancy in the audience through disinformative content. We argue that, by activating pre-discursive elements in the connected audience, the speakers managed to foster a climate of vaccine denialism around the Butantan vaccine.
Bolsonaro and Salles' digital speech on covid-19, the Amazon and indigenous peoples during the first year of the pandemic in Brazil
In this research, we investigate technodiscursive resources mobilized by Jair Bolsonaro, as President of the Republic, as well as by the then Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, about COVID-19, the Amazon, and indigenous peoples, published on Twitter/X, during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil (from March 11, 2020 to March 11, 2021). Our objective is to identify and analyze the characteristics of the digital discourse practiced by the subjects in question to enunciate themselves, as political figures, on this social network, considering the prominent role of the aforementioned platform for modern political debate. In view of this, we base ourselves on Digital Discourse Analysis (Paveau), from an ecological and post-dualist perspective, methodologically supporting ourselves in a qualitative analysis based on the notion of small corpus, advocated by Moirand (2020). In view of the above, this study concludes that the technodiscourse promoted by Bolsonaro and Salles on Twitter/X expressed openly anti-scientific and denialist positions on the aforementioned topics, revealing a digital discourse ideologically marked by conservatism and little appreciation for public institutions. We also found that both publicly expressed opposition to the preservation of biomes and the maintenance of indigenous lives.
Systemic and constructionist reflections on the approach to relational clauses realized with the verb to be
This study assesses the plausibility of an interface between Systemic Functional Grammar (Halliday; Matthiessen, 2004) and Goldberg’s Constructionist model (1995; 2006) for the analysis of relational clauses with the verb ser (“to be”). It is hypothesized that these clauses constitute constructional subschemas of the macroconstruction [NP + Cop + X], whose attributive and identificative variations result from the interplay between systemic-functional choices and constructional principles of inheritance and polysemy. The corpus consists of 48 reports of homophobic violence published on news websites between 2014 and 2019, from which 124 intensive relational clauses were extracted. Manual coding was carried out with a focus on the thematic roles of paired structures. The results show that, through a quali-quantitative approach integrating SFG and Construction Grammar, each relational clause with ser instantiates a subschema of the macroconstruction [NP + Cop + X], differentiated by the nature of the third slot (AdjP or NP) and by the projected ideational roles. In the corpus, the attributive mode predominated, with 98 occurrences (79.04%) as opposed to 26 identificative ones (20.96%). It was observed that the qualificative, classificative, and identificative constructions respectively reflect gradients of evaluation, categorization, and definition, demonstrating how metafunctional choices (SFG) intertwine with constructional schemas (CG) in the production of meaning.
“Where I am raised, no one likes racists”
This paper aims to highlight the role of rap lyrics in the re-signification of terms that have been widely used in social and discursive contexts of racism, characterizing the musical genre as a practice of Transgressive Applied Linguistics (TAL) (Pennycook, 2006) par excellence. Based on the constructs of entextualization, indexicality, and linguistic ideologies, originating from Linguistic Anthropology (Moita Lopes; Gonzalez; Melo; Guimarães, 2022) and the theoretical contributions "Entextualization and Indexicality from the Inside Out" and "Entextualization and Indexicality from the Outside In" (Rocha da Silva, 2024), this study will analyze the uses of the words "cria" and "neguinha" —located and selected using the search tool of the Digital Newspaper Archive— in advertisements for the purchase and sale of enslaved people, dating from the 18th century, and in rap lyrics from current eras, in order to observe the meanings that the words attribute in different periods, as well as to analyze whether these allude to racism. Using dictionary definitions from past and present dictionaries, a comparative analysis will be made between the dictionary meanings and those used in rap lyrics, in order to observe if they present any distinction. This study examined semantics and context, as well as how rap is an ally in the anti-racist struggle within the realm of language. As a result, it became evident that words are not inherently racist, but rather used by racist individuals to reproduce their prejudices. Furthermore, the research also highlighted the fundamental role of rap lyrics in the fight against linguistic racism, representing concrete practices of Transgressive Applied Linguistics (Pennycook, 2006).
Relationships between gestural sign and chronotope in the production of meaning in discourse in Brazilian Sign Language - Libras
The aim is to analyse the referential refraction between the gestural signs for FITA and their chronotopes, based on the video in Libras, Blue September, published on the Youtube platform. To do this, we: 1) selected the video according to the following criteria: time (up to five minutes), content (informative) and enunciator (deaf); 2) requested authorisation to use images; 3) converted the video into images; 4) assembled the gestural signs. From the selected video, we obtained four gestural signs for FITA: LAÇO-FITA-PEITO-classifier, F-I-T-A, FITA-BRAÇO-classifier F-I-TA and AMARARAR-FITA-BRAÇO-classifier. The methodological resource adopted was exotopia, based on a qualitative research approach. From the results, we consider: i) the enunciator re-signifies, from the space of enunciation, certain gestural signs; ii) this re-signification is moulded by the socio-historical context, whose time-space is singular; iii) the enunciation acquires a theme and finish, resulting from the chronotope and axiological elements; the choice of gestural signs is determined by the position, values and cultural and linguistic level of the enunciator.
This article analyzes how a teacher-researcher, here referred to as Clara, discursively constructs herself through her participation in the Exploratory Practice Group and investigates how her sense of belonging to this formative space is configured. Additionally, it discusses the potential of Exploratory Practice as a sustainable approach to the continuing education of teachers, highlighting its role in fostering critical reflection, sensitive listening and collaborative engagement among educators. The study is grounded in Critical Applied Linguistics (Fabrício, 2006) and in the concept of discourse as situated and performative action (Melo; Rocha, 2015), while also drawing on research in Exploratory Practice and in critical teacher education (Miller et al., 2008; 2013). The research adopts a qualitative interpretivist approach (Denzin; Lincoln, 2006), with data generated through exploratory conversations (Dias et al., 2021), considered ethical and affective forms of listening and of shared meaning-making. The findings suggest that language, in its performative dimension, enables the negotiation of meanings around being and doing research, promoting critical reflections on topics such as teaching collaboration and inclusion. It was understood that Exploratory Practice constitutes a sustainable space for professional development, where language plays a central role in the construction of knowledge and fluid teacher identities.
On the question of the standard norm in 19th century Brazil
In this article, we aim to revisit, based on the principle of contextualization (Koerner, 2014 [1995]) and the concept of moderate historicism (Batista, 2020), the climate of opinion in which the establishment of the standard norm in Brazil took place. We will highlight historical and social facts that favored a certain line of understanding regarding the normative paths (and missteps) of the country, from its very genesis. By doing so, we intend to emphasize the importance of considering the intellectual context of an era to better understand the paths through which a topic, such as linguistic norms, was introduced in the country. This requires a sensitive look at the social thought of the Brazilian elite in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, who were responsible for adopting a standard norm based on models of the European Portuguese variety. We have found that: (i) The history of debates on language in Brazil is marked by a strong continuity with foreign scientific theories, which, from today's perspective, led to racist practices in society; (ii) To overcome the Brazilian normative imbroglio, it is necessary to rigorously critique the rules of the current standard norm "cleaning up” what is incompatible with our current educated reality.
The South Korean music industry is characterized by multilingualism in its compositions and interactions with global audiences. This study investigates the use of code-mixing, code-switching, and Konglish, from a translanguaging perspective, in K-pop. For this, we conducted qualitative bibliographical research (Gil, 2010) on Hallyu (Moon, 2023), Transnational Proximity (Jin, 2023), Translanguaging (Li, 2018; Li; Lee, 2023), code-mixing (Muysken, 2000), code-switching (Poplack, 2000), and Konglish (Park, 2021; Fayzrakhmanova, 2023). The analysis focuses on the mini album 19.99 by the group BoyNextDoor, considering linguistic choices, commercial impact, and achievements at awards ceremonies. In addition, we analyzed public reception through comments on the MVs (Music Videos) of “Dangerous” and “Nice Guy” on YouTube. The results indicate that translanguaging in K-pop contributes to intercultural communication and identity formation. By being associated with the production of music accessible to global audiences, it participates in the process of glocalization (Jang, 2023). Thus not only extends reach and interaction but also plays a crucial role in the global spread of South Korean culture and transnational consumption practices. In this way, it promotes identification and meaningful connection between listeners around the world.
This article proposes the concept of Crucial Communication, drawing on the work of Grenny et al. (2023), and defines it as interactions in which two or more individuals engage with sensitive or polemical issues, characterized by divergent perspectives, significant interests, and intense emotional involvement. The study seeks to identify the elements that allow for the formulation of a concept capable of integrating discourse studies, rhetorical argumentation, and polemics, thereby strengthening discursive practice. It is based on the hypothesis that crucial communication may function as an integrative concept, articulating theory and practice in a dialogical and accessible manner. The discussion is grounded in postdoctoral research (2024–2025) conducted within the Graduate Program in Philology and Portuguese Language at the University of São Paulo, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Maria Inês Batista Campos Noel Ribeiro. The objectives included proposing the concept of crucial communication, constructing its theoretical foundation, and reflecting on a discursive ethics oriented toward interactions marked by high relevance and risk. The methodology is exploratory, theoretical, and qualitative, relying on a literature review and on the systematization of conceptual statements that support the viability of the proposed concept. The theoretical framework is anchored in the perspective of dialogical rhetorical analysis, resulting from the intersection of Bakhtin’s dialogism (2010; 2011; 2013) and Volóchinov’s contributions (2017a; 2017b), the New Rhetoric of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (2005), and discursive approaches developed by Paveau (2017) and Charaudeau (2008), as well as by Nascimento (2018; 2024a; 2024b). The article argues that crucial communication cannot be reduced to mediation techniques, but should be understood as a situated discursive practice capable of guiding interlocutors in contexts of tension, relevance, and emotional involvement, fostering ethical negotiations of meanings, values, and interpretations.
Libras, legislation, and discursive event
This paper aims to analyze the legislation approving the recognition of Libras as a discursive event. Specifically, we aim to analyze how the event is worked through in its unfolding, based on the circulation and confrontation of meanings on social media. The study is based on French Discourse Analysis, with Pècheux-esque affiliation. Our discursive corpus consists of materials collected from digital posts published on the official profile of the Federal Senate on Facebook regarding the bill (PL) created in 2020, which addresses bilingual education for the deaf, and the constitutional amendment (PEC) of 2021, which provides for the officialization of Libras alongside Portuguese; besides a material collected from Instagram that consists of claiming the enforcement of the laws of Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) and the respect for the rights of the deaf. From our analytical gestures, we observe that the enactment of Libras legislation, as a language policy, establishes the political in discourse, with intense circulation-confrontation of formulations in social and digital networks, along with the division of meanings.
This study aimed to investigate the perception of multilinguals, speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) as their first language and English (ING) and German (ALE) as foreign languages, regarding the similarities and differences between these languages (Vildomec, 1963; Kellerman, 1983). Based on the theoretical propositions of Hall et al. (2009), Lindqvist (2015) and Sánchez and Bardel (2016), a Psychotypological Perception Scale (PPS) was developed, structured so that participants would assign numerical values to determine how close or distant the PB-ALE, PB-ING and ING-ALE pairings were, considering the orthographic, phonetic-phonological and grammatical domains. The statistical analysis of the data revealed that the psychotypological perception of the participants is in line with the linguistic typology (Katzner, 2002). In all the questions analyzed, the participants judged the ING-ALE pair to be the most similar, while the PB-ALE pair was the most distinct. These results are in line with the theoretical framework used in the research (Stedje, 1976; Schmidt; Frota, 1986; Singleton, 1987; De Angelis; Selinker, 2001; Leticia; Mardesic, 2007; Sánchez; Bardel, 2014, Lindqvist, 2015; Nelson et al., 2021), corroborating the understanding that the higher the speakers' level of proficiency, the closer their psychotypological perception of linguistic typology will be.
In this text, we will analyze the controversy surrounding the homoaffective kiss in the comic book Avengers: The Children's Crusade during the XIX Rio de Janeiro International Book Biennial, held from August 30 to September 8, 2019. In response to the sale of children's and young adult material at the Biennial, the then mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella (Republicanos), requested that the Municipal Secretariat for Public Order of Rio de Janeiro collect it. Considering this polemic event, in the first section, we will discuss the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Dialogical Argumentation Analysis (ADA), proposed by Nascimento (2018). In the second, we will analyze the historical trajectory of Marvel publications involving the themes of gender and sexuality and a dialogue between the characters Teddy and Billy in order to reconstruct the internal or constitutive polemic of the comic book. In the third, we will evaluate the resignification promoted by this Graphic Novel of the historical event that had become known as The Children's Crusade, in the 13th century. In the fourth, we will investigate the establishment of the external polemic based on six posts by Mayor Crivella in an attempt to legitimize his actions. In conclusion, on the one hand, we propose that the Avengers comic book dialogically refers to the trend in recent decades of Marvel itself increasing gender representation among its fictional characters, and on the other, that Crivella's actions aims to reinforce his dialogue with his conservative electorate, promoting moral panic by confusing gender representation with encouraging promiscuity.
Argumentative reading in a dialogic dimension
This study explores argumentative reading, an interdisciplinary phenomenon that integrates perspectives on language based on philosophy, psychology, and education. Given the need for further theoretical and practical study on the subject, this theoretical essay aims to discuss the dialogical dimension of reading, with an emphasis on the specificities of dialectical and unmediated argumentative dialogues, as well as on the process of questioning a subject. Methodologically, the reflection is based on a qualitative approach and is organized into two parts interconnected by an interactional analysis in which the subjects, through dialogical relationships, practice responsive comprehension. The results indicate that argumentative reading is an interactional process in which individuals, through dialogical relationships, exercise responsive comprehension. This process mobilizes multiple dimensions, including perceptual, social, cognitive, emotional, and symbolic. As a contribution, the article presents schemes and procedures that aim to support the development of argumentative reading practices in school contexts.
Didactic materials and strategies in the teaching of Portuguese as a host language to Afghan refugees
This article analyzes the teaching practices and didactic materials used in the instruction of Portuguese as a Language of Welcome (PLAc) for Afghan refugees, through the Projeto Acolhendo Refugiados Afegãos (PARA), carried out by teachers without formal training in education. Drawing on a qualitative approach grounded in Indisciplinary Applied Linguistics (Moita Lopes, 2009) and the principles developed for PLAc by Grosso (2010), São Bernardo and Barbosa (2018), and Fiorelli (2022), we examine the types of materials employed, the pedagogical strategies adopted, and the challenges faced by volunteer teachers lacking specific preparation for teaching. The findings, analyzed through data triangulation, highlight the central role of didactic choices in the linguistic inclusion process and underscore the need for public policies that support ongoing professional development in this field.
Situated in Applied and Implicated Linguistics (Moita Lopes, 2006; Souto Maior, 2023), this study aims to analyze the discourses of the Alagoan media regarding the transformations in the educational sphere resulting from the pandemic, highlighting discourses related to identities (Hall, 2020) and specifically to teacher identities (Souto Maior; Luz, 2019). It is important to observe new meanings regarding these practices in light of the abrupt social changes that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic (Santos, 2020). We analyzed a report published on the Cada Minuto portal in 2020, and our research approach was qualitative (Flick, 2009), based on interpretivism (Moita Lopes, 2006). For data analysis, we utilized the dialogical perspective of discourse (Bakhtin, 1986; 2011; Volóchinov, 2021), characterizing the Engaging Discourses (Souto Maior, 2022; Oliveira; Souto Maior, 2022; Moreira Júnior; Souto Maior, 2020) and the notions of social identity. With the analysis, we observe: 1) the mobilization of engaging neoliberal discourses that address public education without developing the underlying causes; 2) discourses about the lack of preparation for the new reality in teaching practices, yet with some modalization regarding these challenges; 3) the invisibilization of the teacher's emotional suffering.
The research is part of the area of ​​Toponymy, a subdivision of Onomastics, and investigates a section of urban toponymy in Dourados – MS. Considering the correlation between language and physical and historical-cultural aspects, observed more evidently at the lexical level of the language, the main objective of the work is to verify the motivations of the toponyms of squares and parks in the city of Dourados as well as to explain historical and sociocultural aspects to them associates. Regarding the research methodology, we note that the collection of toponyms was carried out by consulting a spreadsheet obtained from the Municipal Secretariat of Urban Services of Dourados. The analysis was based on studies that discuss the relationship between geographic names and external factors. The main theoretical and methodological assumptions used in this work, for data collection, organization and analysis, are those of Dick (1990, 1992) and Trapero (1995), Mori (2007). Regarding the results, the research showed that, of the 39 names analyzed, the majority, 30, are tributes to male people, such as Parque Antenor Martins and Praça Pedro Rigotti; Toponyms analyzed are related to historical and cultural aspects of the municipality, such as Praça Imigração Japonesa and Praça do Ervateiro.
Anthroponymic study based on the registry of names of people born between 2022 and 2023 in Jacarezinho-PR
In lexical studies, Onomastics is dedicated to the study of names. Among others, Onomastics includes Anthroponymy, which studies anthroponyms (personal names). This anthroponymic study aims to investigate the names of people born in Jacarezinho, Paraná, in the years 2022 and 2023, analyzing forenames and surnames (family names), most frequent names, name extensions, ethnic and etymological origins of surnames, graphic variations, naming patterns and connections between local history and names. For this, data provided by the civil registry office of Jacarezinho-PR were analyzed, a total of 946 registries, after authorization from the Court of Justice of Paraná. This is, therefore, a documentary research of a statistical-analytical nature.
The interpretation of presuppositional utterances by adults with autism
Inserting itself in the literature about the relationship between pragmatics and autism, this study investigates how autistic adults deal with structures containing presupposition triggers. First, we hypothesize that individuals with autism face more difficulties in comprehending these utterances compared to neurotypical individuals. Secondly, based on the semantic-pragmatic analysis of the Counter-expectation Construction with Bem (CCB), we hypothesize the existence of a new type of presupposition, called expectation presupposition. According to our proposal, there would be processing differences between expectation presupposition and knowledge presupposition, with the former being more challenging in terms of interpretation. To test these hypotheses, a psycholinguistic experiment was conducted with autistic and neurotypical participants. The experiment involved two types of presupposition triggers: CCB (an example of expectation presupposition trigger) and change of state verbs (CSV; an example of knowledge presupposition trigger). The results confirmed our first hypothesis, indicating that autistic individuals show atypicalities in understanding presuppositional sentences compared to neurotypical individuals. However, the second hypothesis was not confirmed, as the data revealed greater processing difficulties in statements with CSV than with the CCB – which, although contrary to the initial prediction, still allows us to support the proposal regarding the existence of expectation.
Progressive palatalization of alveolar stops /t/ and /d/
This study aims to describe the social status of progressive palatalization of the alveolar stops /t/ and /d/ in BP in research focusing on linguistic perception and/or production. As the main criterion, we considered works that address this phenomenon in a progressive or regressive context and apply the methodology of Variationist Sociolinguistics with a focus on linguistic production and/or evaluation (Cf. Weinreich; Labov; Herzog (2006 [1968]); Labov (2008 [1972]). The search for texts was carried out between January 24 and 25, 2024 in order not to exclude pioneering work on the phenomenon of palatalization in BP. The period chosen was from 1996 to 2024. The corpus consisted of twelve primary studies: ten articles, one thesis and one dissertation, among which five address the perspective of linguistic perception of palatalization and seven address the production of the phenomenon, pointing out the factors that favor or inhibit the application of the palatalization rule. From the results of linguistic production and perception, we can see that the phenomenon of progressive palatalization is a characteristic use of the Northeast region of Brazil, which can be related to older people, mostly men. Such use is subject to negative social pressure and is consequently socially stigmatized.
Elyne Giselle de Santana Lima Aguiar Vitório
An experimental analysis of the (non) exhaustivity in contrastive answers in Brazilian Portuguese
This paper presents the results of a psycholinguistic experiment aimed to examine whether answers with implicit contrast in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), marked by a contrastive topic, are interpreted as exhaustive. The experiment involved two experimental conditions: polar (yes/no) questions and constituent (wh-) questions. A total of 44 native speakers of BP participated in the study. Participants listened to short dialogues and evaluated three response alternatives as true or false, based on their interpretation. The data reveal that, in the polar question condition, the non-exhaustive answer — with the uncertainty of contrast —was selected most frequently (74%). The exhaustive answer was chosen in 25% of cases, and the contrastive one in 27%. In the constituent question condition, the non-exhaustive response again received the highest rate of acceptance (85%), while the exhaustive and contrastive answers were selected in 15% and 12.5% of instances, respectively. These results suggest that participants tend to interpret responses as non-exhaustive when contrastive topic marking is present in both question types. However, inferential statistical analysis showed that the differences between non-exhaustive and contrastive interpretations were statistically significant. It can thus be concluded that a conversational implicature of uncertainty is at play, indicating that speakers are generally reluctant to commit to interpretations involving either contrast or exhaustivity. Moreover, the type of question may influence how respondents interpret the degree of exhaustivity or contrast in a given utterance.
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This article refers to the analysis of the construction [[vai que] (S) V (C)], in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese. In turn, this research was carried out through the theoretical assumptions of Usage-Based Construction Grammar (UBCG), which postulates grammar as a network of linguistic constructions, forming a continuum, basing its analyses on the linguistic objects emitted during the real communication and interaction of the speakers of a language. Thus, with a qualitative-quantitative methodology, written data with the construction [[vai que] (S) V (C)] from social network X (former Twitter) were analyzed. Our analysis showed that there are more idiomatic uses, which are carried out based on the frequency of use and the uniqueness of the verbs that occupy the V slot, these which, generally, do not admit an expressed subject and neither an complement (that is, the examples contained in [vai que V], as in Vai que cola, Vai que rola and Vai que dá). Furthermore, other more free uses are part of the non-idiomatic construction [[vai que] (S) V (C)]. However, vai que in both cases refers to argumentative operators that express epistemic modality and present a high degree of subjectivity in their uses.
This article analyzes the pedagogical and argumentative potential of the discursive genre "deliberative assembly," present in the textbook Multiversos – Língua Portuguesa (Campos; Oda, 2020). Based on the dialogism of the Bakhtin Circle (Bakhtin, 2003; 2008; 2010; 2013; 2016; Volóchinov, 2013; 2018) and a cultural perspective on argumentation advocated by authors such as Plantin (2008), Grácio (2023), and Zarefsky (2009), the study explores how argumentative practice can promote the formation of critical, reflective, and participatory citizens in public life, thus contributing to the development of a culture of argumentation. The methodology was based on the qualitative analysis of the didactic material, focusing on the stages of planning, production, revision, and evaluation of the activity. The results indicate that the activity not only develops argumentative skills outlined by the BNCC but also encourages active listening, the negotiation of meanings, and respect for the diversity of ideas. The practical and collaborative approach promotes democratic living, connecting school learning to social practices. Finally, it is concluded that the discursive genre "deliberative assembly" represents a significant practice for teaching argumentation, strengthening dialogue and democratic coexistence, and its expansion to different educational contexts is suggested.