A functional -cognitive study of particle and verb in "come out"

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Edelvais Brígida Caldeira Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: multi-word verbs; cognitive linguistics; metaphors; Lingüística; Língua inglesa Sintaxe; Funcionalismo (Linguística); Língua inglesa Verbos; Língua inglesa Preposições
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/RMSA-AHSH7D

Taking into account that linguistic structures are highly motivated as opposed to completelyarbitrary, the objective of this work was to analyze the multi-word verb COME OUT, so as toinvestigate how the verb and particle contribute to the meanings of this multi-word verb in thedifferent contexts it is used. In order to do so, empirical data was collected from the Corpus ofContemporary American English (COCA) and a random selection of 579 lines ofconcordances from all the occurrences of COME OUT was extracted by the software R. Thismulti-word verb was chosen due to the fact that it was the most frequent in the Corpuscontaining the particle OUT and a qualitative analysis was carried out. The notion of imageschema has been extended beyond that proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1987) and alsocomprises the notion of spatial primitives and schematic integrations (Mandler andCánovas, 2014). Besides the concept of image schema, this study also attempted toinvestigate in what way the several meanings of the preposition OUT expanded from thespatial to the abstract domain, taking into account the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, includingthe notion of primary metaphor (Grady, 1997), as well as applying the concepts ofTrajector and Landmark. Based on this theoretical framework, the research questions thatguided this study were: in what way do the concrete and abstract meanings of OUTcorresponded to the container schema?; does the identification of TR and LM reveal anypatterns of OUT in COME OUT?; what is the relationship between earlier schematicstructures [primitives] (Mandler & Cánovas, 2014) and the metaphorical language found inempirical data?; which conceptual metaphors underlie the mappings from the source to thetarget domains? The results suggested a strong relationship between the containment schemaand the linguistic structures observed, not only in the concrete, but also in the abstractdomains. However, the notion of container as a bounded region does not seem compatiblewith the contexts analyzed for the particle OUT in the multi-word verb COME OUT. Theempirical data pointed to an alignment between the first schemas (pre-verbal) and theformation of metaphorical structures resulting from these schemas.