The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

The present research consists of an interdisciplinary approach which combines mainly sub-disciplines from the anthropological and psychological perspectives as theoretical background. Regarding the latter, from the cognitive anthropology perspective the research highlights Bradd Shore’s (1996) view on cognitive models, together with the theories put forward by the sociocultural approach in psychology based on Vygotsky’s school of thought. The main objective of the study is to achieve a broad view on the use of traditional korero paki and korero o nehera (Maori folktales/legends and myths) as pedagogical tools and as cognitive models. The latter includes a bibliographical review which covers the analysis of narratives and their usage from different areas, such as Maori epistemology and education, cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology. Being a research stemmed from an anthropological concern –how do people from different sociocultural backgrounds construct and transmit knowledge- it considered as a fundamental element an empirical or “fieldwork” approach to the matter. Therefore, the research analyses –based on semi-structured interviews- the perspectives and understanding of the usage of traditional Maori narratives as educational tools of scholars in the Maori studies/education field and of a sample of Maori teachers, most of them connected to a Kura Kaupapa Maori school, constituting a “study case” for this qualitative study. A period of complementary participant observation was also carried out, focusing on the pedagogical practises and styles of the participant teachers. Through this, the research aims to contextualise the bibliographical and theoretical findings, considering the contemporary applications, limitations and understandings encountered through concrete experience.

GONDIM, Meire Virginia Cabral. Modelos Cognitivos: um estudo intercultural das concepções de violência em jovens brasileiros e franceses. 2012. 226f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza (CE), 2012. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-06-10T11:35:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_tese_mvcgondim.pdf: 1898284 bytes, checksum: f6ec698c5bb1e9686fe34fdab84aaf84 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-06-10T13:30:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_tese_mvcgondim.pdf: 1898284 bytes, checksum: f6ec698c5bb1e9686fe34fdab84aaf84 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-10T13:30:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_tese_mvcgondim.pdf: 1898284 bytes, checksum: f6ec698c5bb1e9686fe34fdab84aaf84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / This study proposes to analyze the conceptions of VIOLENCE that emerges from 11-13 – year old – young people’s – speech, students from two schools located in Fortaleza, Ceará and Libourne, France. Reading and data analysis were based on Cognitive Linguistics theoretical framework, especially Cognitive Semantics focusing on the Theory of Idealized Cognitive Models (ICMT). ICMT allows for an analytical systematization of the data, based on language in use; it proposes that human reasoning is supported and characterized by knowledge organized structures socioculturally constructed from human interaction with the environment. The work was carried out based on qualitative research, considering a comparative study that enables to retrieve the heterogeneity, the singularity and the complexity of the socio-cognitive and cultural construction process of the VIOLENCE category. The analytical corpus consists of excerpts from interviews with 24 students, divided into 06 groups of 04 members (12 Brazilian and 12 French). Regarding the registration strategies, all the activities were recorded on audio and video. From corpus analysis, it is seen in both groups, the recurrence of violence as an apparent physical damage, whose category kinesthetic image schema is PHYSICAL STRENGTH, followed by the schema SOURCE-PATH-GOAL, CONTACT and the image schema RECIPIENT. However, we noticed a significant evocation of verbal violence with moral and psychological harm, such as insults more recurent in the French students group. Frame Propositional Cognitive Models evoked the following scenarios related to urban violence in Brazil: drug traffic, assaults, shootings, gang fights, linked to direct and indirect students’ experiences. For the French participants frames were: political terrorism, religious terrorism, historical facts as slavery of blacks in America and wars – French adolescents set violent general situations not close to their reality – these ones emerge from their world knowledge besides knowledge learned at school. The most frequent metonymic models in both groups were effects for the cause and part for the whole. In both Brazilian and French groups the metonymic projection, effect for the cause, was structured in corporeal terms: as blood and death. Although both groups conceptualize violence in the metonymic form part for the whole, the sociocultural motivations were differentiated - in the Brazilian group, the prominent examples were those reverberated by media and examples from direct experiences or reported by friends, on the other hand, in the French group the part evoked metonymically refers to feelings arising out of empathy towards victims of nonspecific violent scenes as horror, dread, terror. Due to, the fact that the VIOLENCE category involves notions of well-being and malaise, related to morality, the System of Moral Metaphor appeared in the Cognitive Models for the judgment of violent actions or actions to promote non-violence. For exemple, in the Brazilian group GOD IS JUDGE, and in the French one MORALITY IS ABSOLUTE KINDNESS, expressed by the act of forgiveness, FORGIVENESS GENERATES MORAL CREDIT. The Ontological Metaphor, EMOTIONAL STATES ARE ENTITIES WITHIN A PERSON, was identified as a recurrent metaphor of corporeal basis in both groups when communicating feelings associated with violent acts such as pain and sorrow. Finally, our study showed that the construction of meanings for VIOLENCE emerges from structures directly significant to the individual, based on physical and sociocultural experiences. Violence is, thus, seen predominantly as a physical and moral harm, although inserted in different scenarios in both countries from socioculturally motivated models. / Este estudo propõe analisar as concepções de VIOLÊNCIA emergentes no discurso de jovens de 11-13 anos, estudantes de duas escolas situadas nas cidades de Fortaleza, Ceará e Libourne, França. A leitura e a análise dos dados basearam-se nos aportes teóricos da Linguística Cognitiva, em especial, da Semântica Cognitiva com foco na Teoria dos Modelos Cognitivos Idealizados –TMCI. A TMCI permite uma sistematização analítica, pautada na linguagem em uso; propõe que o raciocínio humano é amparado e caracterizado por estruturas de conhecimento organizadas e construídas socioculturalmente a partir da interação do ser humano com o ambiente. O trabalho foi realizado com base na pesquisa qualitativa, tendo como eixo um estudo comparativo que possibilita analisar a heterogeneidade, a singularidade e a complexidade do processo de construção da categoria VIOLÊNCIA em termos sociocognitivos e culturais. O corpus analítico é constituído de trechos de entrevistas realizadas com 24 estudantes, divididos em 06 grupos de 04 integrantes (12 brasileiros e 12 franceses). Em relação às estratégias de registro, todas as atividades foram gravadas em áudio e vídeo. A partir da análise do corpus, verifica-se nos dois grupos, a recorrência da violência com dano físico perceptível, cujo Modelo de esquema de imagem cinestésico estruturante da categoria é FORÇA FÍSICA, seguidos do esquema ORIGEM-PERCURSO-META, CONTATO e o esquema de imagem RECIPIENTE. No entanto, observamos uma evocação significativa da violência verbal com danos morais e psicológicos, como insultos mais recorrentes nos grupos de estudantes franceses. Os Modelos Cognitivos Proposicionais do tipo frame evocaram os seguintes cenários referentes à violência urbana no Brasil: tráfico de drogas, assaltos, tiroteios, briga entre gangues, vinculados às experiências diretas e às indiretas dos estudantes. Para os participantes franceses os frames foram: terrorismo político, terrorismo religioso, fatos histórios como Escratura de Negros na América e Guerras – os adolescentes franceses acionaram situações gerais de violência não próximas de sua realidade cotidiana – estas emergeram de seus conhecimentos de mundo além de conhecimentos aprendidos na escola. Os modelos metonímicos mais frequentes nos dois grupos foram efeitos pela causa e parte pelo todo. Tanto no grupo de brasileiros quanto no de franceses a projecão metonímica, efeito pela causa, foi estruturada em termos corpóreos: como sangue e morte. Apesar de os dois grupos conceitualizarem violência de forma metonímica parte pelo todo, as motivações socioculturais foram diferenciadas – no grupo de brasileiros, os exemplos salientes foram aqueles repercutidos pela mídia e exemplos advindos de experiências diretas ou recontadas por colegas, entretanto, no grupo de franceses a parte evocada metonimicamente diz respeito aos sentimentos decorrentes de empatia pelas vítimas de cenas inespecíficas de violência como horror, pavor, terror. Em virtude da categoria VIOLÊNCIA envolver noções de bem-estar e mal-estar, estas vinculadas à moralidade, o Sistema da Metáfora da Moral surgiu nos Modelos Cognitivos referentes ao julgamento de ações violentas ou às ações de promoção a não violência – como no grupo de brasileiros DEUS É JUIZ, e no de franceses MORALIDADE DA BONDADE ABSOLUTA, expressa pelo ato de perdoar, PERDÃO GERA CRÉDITO MORAL. Foi identificada a Metáfora Ontológica, ESTADOS EMOCIONAIS SÃO ENTIDADES DENTRO DE UMA PESSOA, metáfora recorrente de base corpórea nos dois grupos ao comunicarem sentimentos associados a atos de violência como a dor e a tristeza. Por fim, o nosso estudo mostrou que a construção de sentidos para VIOLÊNCIA emerge de estruturas diretamente significativas baseadas em experiências físicas e socioculturais, a violência é vista de forma predominante como um dano físico e moral, embora inserida em cenários distintos nos dois países a partir de modelos socioculturalmente motivados.

Com vistas à conceptualização do conceito de BANDIDO em 32 expressões com a estrutura bandido de x, descrevemos, nesta dissertação, os modelos cognitivos idealizados subjacentes à construção de sentido de tais expressões, postulando-lhes um caráter de modelo cognitivo complexo, nos termos de Lakoff (1987), produtivo na língua. Constituem ainda o arcabouço teórico deste estudo a Teoria da Mesclagem Conceptual (FAUCONNIER e TURNER, 2002) e a Teoria da Metáfora Conceptual (LAKOFF e JOHNSON, 1980). A análise das construções bandido de x foi realizada a partir de 137 comentários retirados da internet e definições elaboradas por 15 alunos do ensino fundamental; 18 do ensino médio e 20 alunos do ensino superior. Os alunos que colaboraram com a pesquisa definiram 24 expressões bandido de x. A pesquisa obedeceu ao procedimento qualitativo de análise dos dados, no qual observamos as diferentes interpretações dadas para as expressões, fundamentando-as a partir dos processos cognitivos envolvidos no sentido das mesmas. Assim com base na análise dos comentários de internautas e nas definições de alunos, propomos quatro processos de conceptualização para as expressões bandido de x: (a) conceptualização com base em modelos cognitivos proposicionais, em que x é um locativo interpretado como lugar de origem ou de atuação do bandido bandido de morro, bandido de rua, bandido de cadeia ; (b) conceptualização com base em modelos esquemático-imagéticos, em que observamos a atribuição de uma espécie de escala ao sentido atribuído à construção, culminando em diferentes status para a categoria BANDIDO DE X, subjacente a expressões bandido de primeira/segunda/quinta categoria/linha; (c) conceptualização de BANDIDO DE X com base em modelos metonímicos, em que x é uma peça do vestuário/calçado/acessório, de modo a interpretar o BANDIDO como pertencendo a uma categoria que costuma utilizar determinada peça de roupa, acessório ou calçado bandido de colarinho branco, bandidos de farda, bandido de chinelo ; (d) conceptualização de BANDIDO DE X com base em modelos metafóricos, em que x é um conceito abstrato que pode ser entendido como um objeto possuído pelo bandido, de forma a caracterizá-lo pela maneira de agir ou expertise bandido de conceito, bandido de atitude, bandido de fé. Acreditamos, assim, na possibilidade de descrição de padrões que regem a conceptualização de BANDIDO DE X, cujos sentidos alcançados por meio de modificadores revelam a produtividade e complexidade do modelo cognitivo BANDIDO / The theme of this study is the concept of bandit. We intend to investigate, analyze and describe the idealized cognitive models of 32 expressions resulted from the construction bandit of x .We organized a corpus composed of 137 comments taken from the internet that contain bandit of x expressions. We provide a description of the Idealized Cognitive Models. It counts on the contributions of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (LAKOFF and JONHSON, 1980), Conceptual Blending Theory (FAUCONNIER and TURNER, 2002) and Idealized Cognitive Models Theory (LAKOFF, 1987). The another part of the corpus was made by analyzing responses of 15 elementary school students, 18 middle school students and 20 college students which students set 24 expressions bandit x. The research followed a qualitative procedure of data analysis which we see the different interpretations given to the terms on the basis of various cognitive processes Thus, based on analysis of comments from netizens and definitions of students, we propose four processes of conceptualization to outlaw expressions of x: (a) conceptualization based on propositional cognitive models, where x is interpreted as a rental place of origin or acting bandit - bandit hill, street thug, thug in jail - (b) conceptualization based on the schematic, pictorial models, we observe the allocation of a kind of scale to the meaning attributed to construction, culminating in different status for category villain of x, the underlying expressions bandit first / second / fifth category / line, (c) conceptualization of x-based metonymic models, where x is a piece of clothing / footwear / accessories, so to interpret the bandit as belonging to a category that tends to use certain piece of clothing, accessory or footwear - white collar crook, uniformed bandits, bandit slipper - (d) conceptualization of BANDIT of x, based on metaphorical models in x is an abstract concept that can be understood as an object owned by the BANDIT in order to characterize it by way of acting or expertise - bandit concept, attitude bandit, bandit of faith. We believe, therefore, the possibility of description of standards governing the conceptualization of BANDIT of x, whose senses achieved through modifiers reveal productivity and complexity of the cognitive model BANDIT