A incidência do princípio idiomático e do princípio da escolha aberta na produção escrita de alunos brasileiros de inglês como língua estrangeira

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Gil, Cristina Borges
• Orientador(a): Sardinha, Antonio Paulo Berber
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem
• Departamento: Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Letras e Artes
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Linguística de corpus; Lingua inglesa - Estudo e ensino - Falantes estrangeiros; Princípio idiomático
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Corpus linguistics; Learner corpora; Idiom principle
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19852

The aim of this research is to find evidence of both the idiom principle and the open-choice principle in the written production of Brazilian students of English as a foreign language. The theoretical basis of this study is Corpus Linguistics, an area which supports the research and the study of language in use, and which is based on the view of language as a probabilistic system. Sinclair (1991, 2004) sees language as a probabilistic system with two complementary principles: the idiom principle and the open-choice principle. The idiom principle has to do with the use of sequence of words which are at least partly prefabricated and that are appropriate in a given context. The open-choice principle is a way of seeing the language in which the only restriction to lexical choices is grammaticalness. The methodology consisted of the collection of a written corpus of Brazilian students of English as a foreign language and the subsequent analysis of all the sequences of words used in each text of the corpus. This procedure, known as ‘collocation tracking’, was introduced by Berber Sardinha (2014a). The findings point out that the two principles coexist in the texts as proposed by Sinclair. In addition, they also reveal nuances in the principles described by him in the written production of the learners. We called them idiom principle I and II, and open-choice principle I and II. The study presented here intended to have made an original contribution to Corpus Linguistics and to the study of Learner Corpora as it carried out a descriptive investigation of learner language and observed variant forms of the principles which are not found in texts written by educated native speakers