Este estudo tem o objetivo de analisar processos cognitivos na Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras), presentes em duas interpretações da música Aquarela. Os processos cognitivos foram investigados à luz da corporificação, da metáfora conceptual (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2002), da metonímia conceptual (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2003; EVANS; GREEN, 2006; KÖVECSES, 2010) e da iconicidade cognitiva (WILCOX, 2000; QUADROS, 2004; WILCOX, 2004). Além desses processos de construção de sentidos, analisam-se os esquemas imagéticos (EVANS; GREEN, 2006; GIBBS; COLSTON apud GEERAERTS, 2006) que lhes fundamentam. A partir dessa fundamentação, foram encontrados nas intepretações sinais categorizados icônico-metonímicos, icônico-metonímico-corporificados, de acordo com Nunes (2014), e icônicos-corporificados. Verificaram-se os esquemas imagéticos subjacentes aos sinais e classificadores. Considerando-se que esses sinais e classificadores estão presentes em interpretações de uma música, analisam-se também procedimentos e técnicas utilizados em traduções e interpretações em Libras. A partir da análise, constatou-se, entre os processos cognitivos subjacentes às interpretações da música, que as principais metáforas conceptuais subjacentes à letra de Aquarela em português mantêm-se nas interpretações em Libras. Contudo, na versão em Libras, uma nova metáfora foi postulada. Assim, buscou-se, com esta pesquisa, fornecer questionamentos sobre processos cognitivos em sinais e classificadores em interpretações na Libras / This study aims to analyze cognitive processes in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), present in two interpretations of Aquarela music. The cognitive processes were investigated based on embodiment, conceptual metaphor (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2002), the conceptual metonymy (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2003; EVANS; GREEN, 2006; KÖVECSES, 2010) and cognitive iconicity (Wilcox, 2000; TABLES, 2004; WILCOX, 2004). In addition to these senses construction processes, it was analyzed the image schemes (EVANS; GREEN, 2006; GIBBS; COLSTON apud GEERAERTS, 2006). From this foundation, were found signs classified as iconic-metonymic signs, iconic- metonymic-embodied signs, according to Nunes (2014), and iconic-embodied. It was studied image schemas in signs and classifiers. Considering that these signs and classifiers are present in music interpretations, its also analyzed procedures and techniques used in Libras translations and interpretations. From the analysis, it was found among the cognitive processes at these interpretations that the main conceptual metaphors in Portuguese remain in Libras interpretations. However, in Libras, a new metaphor was postulated. Thus, this research provides questions about cognitive processes in signs and classifiers in Libras interpretations

In fact, as far as I know, linguists and philosophers of language have never really looked at the universal language. Instead, they frame a “universal language” that is based on the premise of the majoritarian languages. One approach, traditional linguistics, often goes from signs (lexical signs), phonology, and syntax and is based on phonocentric framing, i.e., sound is the basis of their theoretical frames. The other approach, cognitive linguistics, is based on spatiality and embodied figures in mental space. Cognitive linguists (Leonard Talmy, for example) believe that the objects of spoken languages or signed languages are mainly created from natural perception and mental spaces. However, natural perception and mental spaces are in turn shaped, formed, and modified by sensorimotor perception and the movement of thought. Would it not be better to derive from them directly so that we can gain an understanding of how a language is created from the human body? We could also gain an understanding of the relationship between perception, thought, and the utterable of languages. The ontological benefit is that signed languages are closer to "raw" thought, perception, and the universal language than spoken languages. Sign language poetry, for example, is close to the universal language. Therefore, as opposed to spoken languages, signed languages are based on the movement of thinking outside the body. We can thus reveal the pure language or the universal language. The essay question: Is the “mobile” part of sign languages (åtbördsspråket) and gestures (åtbörder) appropriate as a model for constructing a general definition of all languages? I apply Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, especially his pure semiotics, perception, and the theory of movement, to construct this universal language.

nÃo hà / This research analyzes in which ways the conceptual metaphors based in âlifeâ, âdeathâ and âresurrectionâ, presents in the John`s Gospel of the Bible in Portuguese language, were translated into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Firstly, I do a mapping of the metaphors, and later on I check how the cognitive aspects underlying each one of them are structured, both in the source language as in the translation of them. In this regard, I use the postulates of the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor, designed by Lakoff and Johnson (2003), the postulates of Fauconnier and Turner (2002) about the conceptual blending and the postulates of KÃvecses (2005, 2010) about the role of cultures upon their own conceptualizations. In order to explain some phenomena, specifically from translation, such as the new implicit information, I bring some discussion about some views of the Relevance Theory, from Sperber and Wilson (2001), whereby I also check in which ways the translator`s inferences keep or change the conceptual metaphors from a religious sensitive text in the Brazilian deaf culture. As it can be seen, the research upon this thesis connects the Translation Studies and the Cognitive Linguistics, and some of the results propose that the same embodied experience can generate distinct conceptual metaphors in two also distinct cultures. As I am analyzing the translation of the Bible as a sensitive text, some of the results also point to changes in the conceptual metaphors, due to the translation, may cause changes in the chains of significances related to the Christian symbols. / Este trabalho analisa de que forma as metÃforas conceituais baseadas em âvidaâ, âmorteâ e âressurreiÃÃoâ, presentes no evangelho de JoÃo da BÃblia em lÃngua portuguesa, foram traduzidas para a LÃngua Brasileira de Sinais (LIBRAS). Primeiro eu faÃo um mapeamento das metÃforas, e depois verifico como os aspectos cognitivos subjacentes a cada uma delas estÃo estruturados, tanto na lÃngua-fonte quanto na traduÃÃo. Para isso, utilizo os pressupostos da Teoria da MetÃfora Conceitual, de Lakoff e Johnson (2003), as proposiÃÃes de Fauconnier e Turner (2002) sobre a mesclagem conceitual e o entendimento de KÃvecses (2005, 2010) sobre o papel das culturas diante de suas prÃprias conceitualizaÃÃes. Para explicar alguns fenÃmenos especÃficos da traduÃÃo, tais como as novas informaÃÃes implÃcitas, trago para a discussÃo alguns entendimentos da Teoria da RelevÃncia, de Sperber e Wilson (2001), por meio da qual eu verifico tambÃm de que forma as inferÃncias do tradutor mantÃm ou modificam as metÃforas conceituais de um texto sensÃvel religioso na cultura surda brasileira. Como pode ser percebido, a pesquisa desta dissertaÃÃo conecta os Estudos da TraduÃÃo à LinguÃstica Cognitiva, e alguns dos resultados sugerem que uma mesma experiÃncia corporificada pode gerar metÃforas conceituais distintas em duas culturas tambÃm distintas. Como estou analisando a traduÃÃo da BÃblia como texto sensÃvel, alguns dos resultados tambÃm apontam que as mudanÃas nas metÃforas conceituais, em virtude da traduÃÃo, podem acarretar mudanÃas na rede de significÃncias envolvida com os sÃmbolos cristÃos.

nÃo hà / Esta pesquisa focaliza como tema de discussÃo a violÃncia escolar, tendo como objetivos principais identificar e analisar, pelo viÃs da LinguÃstica Cognitiva, as metÃforas que emergem na interaÃÃo entre professores ao discutirem sobre o tema, por investigar as motivaÃÃes cognitivas e discursivas na conceitualizaÃÃo desse tema por professores da EducaÃÃo BÃsica do municÃpio de Fortaleza. Para anÃlise dos dados utilizamos o modelo de AnÃlise do Discurso à Luz das MetÃforas, proposto por Cameron et al. (2009), bem como os aportes teÃrico de Lakoff e Johnson (1980, 1999) sobre MetÃfora Conceitual e Modelos Cognitivos Idealizados (LAKOFF, 1987), especialmente no que concerne aos esquemas imagÃtico-cinestÃsicos como fenÃmenos cognitivos subjacentes à emergÃncia de metÃforas sistemÃticas. Desse modo, argumentamos que as metÃforas sistemÃticas nÃo sÃo apenas emergÃncias discursivas, mas, tambÃm cognitivas uma vez que fatores corpÃreos socioculturalmente situados contribuem para a emergÃncia de tais metÃforas. A Teoria dos Sistemas DinÃmicos Complexos (LARSEN-FREEMAN; CAMERON, 2007; CAMERON; MASLEN, 2010) à uma importante contribuiÃÃo teÃrica, porque compreende o discurso dos participantes como um Sistema DinÃmico Complexo, uma vez que se adapta de acordo com as necessidades contextuais, bem como permite analisar duas propostas de estudo da metÃfora, aparentemente, conflitantes: a Teoria da MetÃfora Conceitual (LAKOFF E JOHNSON, 1980) e a MetÃfora SistemÃtica (CAMERON, 2003, 2007). A metodologia empregada nesta pesquisa se deu a partir da realizaÃÃo de um grupo focal formado por professores, com vistas a perceber a conceitualizaÃÃo de violÃncia escolar no discurso produzido. MetÃforas SistemÃticas (CAMERON, 2003, 2007; CAMERON; MASLEN, 2010) sÃo identificadas a partir dos tÃpicos discursivos mais recorrentes na interaÃÃo verbal e do agrupamento de veÃculos metafÃricos presentes nas falas dos participantes. Os resultados revelam que metÃforas presentes no discurso parecem emergir e se sistematizar a partir de uma negociaÃÃo de conceitos durante a interaÃÃo verbal entre professores, os quais apresentam linguagem metafÃrica influenciada por esquemas imagÃtico-cinestÃsicos, relativos a movimento. ConcluÃmos que os professores que participaram desta pesquisa, conceitualizam a escola como CAMPO DE BATALHA; reconhecem que a violÃncia na escola à reflexo de outros tipos de violÃncia; atribuem à impunidade muitos atos de violÃncia escolar; e admitem que todos na escola sÃo vÃtimas do sistema. / This research focuses on the theme of school violence, and its main objectives are identifying and analyzing, through the eyes of Cognitive Linguistics, the metaphors that emerge from the interaction between teachers when discussing the topic, by investigating the cognitive and discursive motivations in the conceptualization of the theme by Elementary School teachers from the city of Fortaleza. In order to analyze the data, we used the Metaphor-led Discourse Analysis model as proposed by Cameron et al. (2009), as well as theoretical support from Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1999) about Conceptual Metaphor and Idealized Cognitive Models (LAKOFF, 1987), especially in regards to imaging-kinesthetic schemes as cognitive phenomena underlying the emergence of systematic metaphors. This way, we believe that systematic metaphors are no longer discursive emergencies, but also cognitive since tangible aspects social and culturally situated contribute to the emergency of such metaphors. The Complex Dynamic Systems theory (LARSEN-FREEMAN; CAMERON, 2007; CAMERON; MASLEN, 2010) is an important theoretical contribution because it comprehends the discourse of the participants as a Complex Dynamic System, once it adapts according to the context needs, as well as allows us to analyze two propositions of metaphor study which are apparently conflicting: the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (LAKOFF E JOHNSON, 1980) and the Systematic Metaphor (CAMERON, 2003, 2007). The methodology applied to this research involved the formation of a focus group composed by teachers, with the objective of perceive the conceptualization of school violence in the discourse that was produced. Systematic Metaphors (CAMERON, 2003, 2007; CAMERON; MASLEN, 2010) are identified through the most recurring discourse topics in the oral interaction and the grouping of metaphorical vehicles present in the speech of the participants. The results reveal that metaphors present in the discourse seem to emerge and systematize themselves from the negotiation of concepts during the oral interaction between teachers, who show metaphorical language that was influenced by imaging-kinesthetic schemes related to movement. We concluded that the teachers who took part in this research conceptualize the school as a BATTLEFIELD; they acknowledge that violence at school is a reflex of other kinds of violence; many acts of school violence are attributed to impunity; and they admit that everyone at the school are victims of the system.

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar como os falantes administram o fluxo da informação no português brasileiro (PB). De acordo com Lambrecht 1994, a administração do fluxo da informação está calcada basicamente em três funções: função com foco no predicado (tópico-comentário), função com foco no argumento (identificacional) e função com foco em toda a sentença (que pode ser de reportar um evento ou apresentacional). Para chegar a essas funções, Lambrecht utiliza seis noções independentes, mas interrelacionadas: pressuposição e asserção pragmática, ativação e identificabilidade de referentes e tópico e foco. O presente trabalho defende a idéia de que existe uma máxima pragmática cognitivamente motivada que leva o falante a primeiro introduzir um referente, para então dizer algo sobre ele. O quadro teórico no qual a pesquisa se desenvolve é o da Lingüística Cognitiva, dentro da qual, mais especificamente, incluem-se estudos da área da Pragmática Discursiva, que tem por objeto o estudo da estrutura da informação. Essa área investiga as relações entre a estrutura formal das sentenças (sintática e prosódica) e as suposições do falante sobre o estado mental do ouvinte. Os dados utilizados para a análise baseiam-se em um corpus formado pela transcrição de dez narrativas orais, feitas a partir do filme História da Pêra, elaborado por Chafe 1980. A partir dessas narrativas, foi possível chegar a um quadro que descreve a estruturação da informação no português brasileiro. A principal particularidade do PB em relação à estruturação da informação consiste na manifestação formal das construções com foco em toda a sentença. / This thesis aims at investigating how users organize information flow in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). According to Lambrecht 1994, the management of information flow is primarily based on three functions: predicate-focus structure (topic-comment), argumentfocus structure (identificational) and sentence-focus structure (event reporting or apresentational). His analysis comprises six independent but inter-related notions: pragmatic pressuposition and pragmatic assertion, identifiability and activation, topic and focus. I intend to explore the idea that there is a cognitively motivated pragmatic maxim, which induces the speaker to introduce a referent first, and then say something about it. The theoretical background is the one of Cognitive Linguistics, more specifically Discourse Pragmatics, which comprises the study of information structure. This studies are based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects the speakers´s assumption about the hearer´s state of knowledge and counscionusness at the time of utterance. To achieve my goals, I used a corpus composed by transcriptions of ten oral narratives, estimulated by the Pear Story movie, produced by Chafe 1980. With the empirical study, it was possible to describe how information is structured in Brazilian Portuguese. When it comes to information structure, the main specificity of BP is the formal manifestation of sentence-focus structures.

Diferentes agrupamentos de verbos, parte do que chamamos aqui de construções marginais, representam em georgiano um pequeno número de verbos que apresenta peculiaridades estruturais que se desviam, de um modo ou de outro, do padrão dominante representado por classes maiores de verbos. São nessas classes maiores que esses agrupamentos menores tradicionalmente acabam por ser inseridos, estando no limiar, diacrônica e sincronicamente, entre construções morfossintáticas maiores. Argumenta-se que, assim como em relação às classes verbais maiores e mais produtivas, esses grupos menores de verbos também revelam tendências bastante específicas presentes na língua, destacando-se por apresentar diferentes processos de significação. Em vista disso, com base no movimento teórico conhecido pelo amplo termo Linguística Cognitiva, procurou-se compreender e explicar fornecendo as necessárias relações entre construções que apontam para essas tendências menos e mais produtivas e prototípicas de que forma mudanças formais vistas nesses grupos de verbos em particular como mudanças argumentais, aumento ou apagamento de argumentos, mudança na marcação de caso de argumentos etc. codificam e espelham maneiras e processos distintos de significação, e qual seria, consequentemente, a natureza dessas diferentes significações. / Different groups of verbs, that we call here marginal constructions, represent in Georgian a limited number of verbs that have structural peculiarities that deviate in one way or another, from the dominant pattern represented by major verb classes in which they are traditionally classified, since they are at the threshold between major morphosyntactic constructions, diachronically and synchronically. It is argued that, compared to the largest and most productive verb classes, these smaller groups of verbs also reveal quite specific tendencies within the language, particularly by showing different meaning processes. Therefore, based on the theoretical framework known by the broad term Cognitive Linguistics, we sought to understand and explain by providing the necessary relations between those constructions that point to less and more productive and prototypical tendencies - how formal changes seen in these verb groups in particular, e.g. changes in argument structure, increase or deletion of arguments, shifting in case marking of arguments etc., reflect and code distinct ways and processes of conceptualization, being able, therefore, to caracterize the nature of these different meanings.

O presente trabalho busca analisar o uso das hashtags #gostariaque e #gostavaque que foram veiculadas por falantes brasileiros e portugueses na rede social Twitter. A abordagem teórica que fundamentou este estudo foi a linguística cognitiva, a qual assume a interdependência da cognição e do contexto sociocultural para a produção da língua, isto é, qualquer tipo textual produzido por um falante. Ao tratar de cognição, foi de suma importância discutir como espaços mentais (EM) são ativados e gerenciados no desenrolar comunicativo (cf. FAUCONNIER, 1994; FAUCONNIER; SWEETSER, 1996; FAUCONNIER; TURNER, 2002). As hashtags #gostariaque e #gostavaque ativam diferentes EM, como o de contrafactualidade e de possibilidade. Também se verificou que essa ferramenta muito presente no meio digital é capaz de modalizar pedidos. Uma vez que a recorrência de determinada construção linguística evidencia um caráter prototípico, ainda foi possível verificar as construções mais frequentes no português brasileiro (PB) e no português europeu (PE). A dissertação visa, portanto, propor uma análise cognitiva das hashtags, levando em consideração a importância do contexto sociocultural para a escolha de determinadas construções linguísticas e para a produção do sentido. / This work aims to analyze the use of hashtags #gostariaque and #gostavaque that were transmitted by Brazilian and Portuguese speakers in the social network Twitter. The theoretical approach underlying this study was cognitive linguistics, which assumes the interdependence of cognition and the sociocultural context for the production of language, that is, any textual type produced by a speaker. In dealing with cognition, it was extremely important to discuss how mental spaces (MS) are activated and managed in the communicative process (FAUCONNIER, 1994; FAUCONNIER; SWEETSER, 1996; FAUCONNIER; TURNER, 2002). The hashtags #gostariaque and #gostavaque activate different MS, such as counterfactuality and possibility. It has also been found that this tool widely used in the digital medium is able to modalize requests. Since the recurrence of a certain linguistic construction shows a prototypical character, it was still possible to verify the most frequent constructions in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP). The dissertation aims, therefore, to propose a cognitive analysis of hashtags, taking into account the importance of the sociocultural context for the choice of certain linguistic constructions and for the production of meaning.

xvi, 185 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / This dissertation investigates constructional alternation among the English verb- at , verb- away-at , and verb- away constructions. The primary purpose is to lay a fundamental conceptual framework on the interrelation between how we perceive a situation in an external world and how we construe it as an event structure in a conceptualized world to encode it linguistically. This study suggests an Extended Semantic Map (hereafter ESM) model. It presents an in-depth analysis of the three constructions, derived from the BNC (British National Corpus), and resultative constructions in Korean and Japanese. I argue that language has conceptual bases rooted in perception and cognitive construal. Construal allows one to view the same situation in a number of alternative ways. Construal is closely related to distribution of attention, which has two main patterns: focus of attention and windowing of attention. Focus of attention is mainly based on perceptual prominence. It is placed on participants and is typically encoded in the selection and arrangement of nominals. Windowing of attention operates on cognitive prominence. It is a cognitive process to segment some relation(s) out of an event structure. It is typically encoded in predicate or adverbial expressions. I further argue that any mismatch between perceptual and cognitive prominence requires overt marking. For example, the English passive construction requires the overt marking of ' be/get + past participle,' which directs an addressee's primary focus of attention to a perceptually secondary but cognitively primary patient. It also places windowing of attention on the perceptually secondary but cognitively primary Change. Windowing and focus of attention will be used to define the X- and Y-axes of the ESM. The X-axis consists of five causal relations -- Volition, Activity, Force Transfer, Change, and State, on which attention is windowed. The Y-axis is composed of four types of configuration for the semantic roles of the participants -- Agent, Agent-Location, Agent-Theme, and Theme. The ESM visually maps relations among constructions within and across languages. It illustrates how event structures can be categorized typically as either [Activity]-windowing or [Change]-windowing. Finally, it also allows us to represent cross-linguistic differences in the available constructions for construing event structures. / Committee in charge: Eric Pederson, Chairperson, Linguistics; Scott DeLancey, Member, Linguistics; Doris Payne, Member, Linguistics; Kaori Idemaru, Outside Member, East Asian Languages & Literatures

Cette thèse porte sur la question de la sémantique causative. Elle propose une typologie sémantique pour les verbes causatifs analytiques CAUSE, MAKE, HAVE, GET et LET, fondée sur le modèle de la dynamique des forces. Le premier chapitre est une étude épistémologique de l’essence de la notion de causation et de son expression linguistique en anglais. Le second chapitre situe le cadre théorique de notre analyse, à savoir la sémantique cognitive. Le troisième chapitre est un tour d’horizon des idées les plus récurrentes dans la littérature au sujet de la sémantique des verbes causatifs analytiques. Dans le quatrième chapitre, nous proposons une étude de corpus portant sur les propriétés lexico-sémantiques des verbes CAUSE, MAKE, HAVE, GET et LET. Sur la base des donnés empiriques de notre étude de corpus, nous présentons, dans le dernier chapitre, une nouvelle typologie sémantique pour les verbes causatifs analytiques anglais / This thesis deals with the semantics of causative constructions. It develops a semantic typology for English periphrastic causative verbs CAUSE, MAKE, HAVE, GET, and LET, based on the force-dynamics model. The first chapter aims to capture the essence of the notion of causation from an epistemic as well as a linguistic viewpoints. The second chapter sets the theoretical framework, which is cognitive semantics. The third chapter offers a discussion of some of the most commonly shared hypotheses about the semantics of English periphrastic causative verbs in literature. In the fourth chapter, we propose a corpus study of the lexico-semantic features of the verbs CAUSE, MAKE, HAVE, GET and LET. The last chapter presents a newly semantic typology for English periphrastic causative verbs, drawn upon the data we collected from our corpus study.

This dissertation investigates an area of notorious difficulty for learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. Research from previous studies has indicated that phrasal verb learning may be more effective if a Cognitive Linguistic approach is adopted. However, the quantitative and qualitative research in this dissertation demonstrates that the approach, once integrated into a regular, classroom-based EFL programme, does not consistently yield significant learning gains. Further qualitative investigations highlighted the fact that the benefits of the approach have less to do with the Cognitive Linguistic explanations than with their compatibility with other learning strategies, such as employing imagery and grouping information. In addition, the approach is most suited to phrasal verbs that are already partially familiar to students. However, for other phrasal verbs the Cognitive Linguistic approach may even impede learning. In addition, the implications for phrasal verb pedagogy are then presented and discussed.