Estrutura informacional e clivagem: análise da veiculação de informação em construções clivadas do português brasileiro contemporâneo escrito

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Aleixo, Felipe [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Linguística; Língua portuguesa; Gramatica comparada e geral - Sintaxe; Linguistics
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136077; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/12-02-2016/000858343.pdf

In this functionalist study, we described and analysed the cleft constructions in the written contemporary Brazilian Portuguese language with the central aim of analysing how information is conveyed by the focal constituents of such sentences. Additionally, we aimed at perceiving whether information is capable of motivating the use of a given kind of cleft structure instead of other. For this purpose, we selected five kinds os cleft constructions: Per Se Clefts (CLIV), É Que Constructions (É QUE), Que Constructions (QUE), Wh-clefts Constructions (PC) and Ser Focus Constructions (SER) (PRINCE, 1979; BRAGA, 1989; LONGHIN, 1999), which composed our research corpus, with a total of 127 occurrences, taken from 1208 written enunciation mode texts in the Portuguese language. These texts are in the main sections of Folha de S. Paulo newspaper and were written during january, 2014. Methodologically, we adopted a qualiquantitative perspective, in which data were analysed in accordance with six factor groups: informational status, denotata activation level, grammatical category, syntactic function, dimension and contrast - all these factors are analysed in relation to the focal constituents of the cleft sentences. The data codification was held by means of GoldVarb X software, aiming at obtaining the frequency statistical results and aiming at carrying out the crossed tabulation between the cleft sentences informational status frequency and the frequency of each syntactic-discoursive parameter. With the obtained results, we perceived that the informational status keeps strong relation with the production of grammatical categories (like noun phrases), of syntactic functions (like subjects and circumstantials) and, especially, with the dimension of the focal constituents (short = given information; medium and long = new information). The factor groups activation level and contrast of the focal constituents did...