Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-04-08T22:32:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 NadiaMariaSilveiraCostaDeMelo_TESE.pdf: 1542179 bytes, checksum: be052cfe0b06ab470accca1b8275b1ce (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-11T20:02:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 NadiaMariaSilveiraCostaDeMelo_TESE.pdf: 1542179 bytes, checksum: be052cfe0b06ab470accca1b8275b1ce (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-11T20:02:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NadiaMariaSilveiraCostaDeMelo_TESE.pdf: 1542179 bytes, checksum: be052cfe0b06ab470accca1b8275b1ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-27 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico - CNPq / Esta tese examina a constru??o medial do portugu?s do Brasil (PB). Trata-se de uma constru??o que descreve um evento causativo, em que um participante sujeito n?o-humano ? afetado por uma a??o que n?o emana dele. Interessa-nos investigar essa constru??o a partir de suas fun??es sem?ntico-cognitivas e discursivopragm?ticas, suas caracter?sticas espec?ficas, motiva??es e contexto discursivo em que seu uso ? recorrente. Para tanto, buscamos responder ?s seguintes quest?es: qual a configura??o estrutural protot?pica da constru??o medial (CM) no Portugu?s do Brasil? Quais s?o suas fun??es discursivas espec?ficas? Qual ? o grau de transitividade da CM com base nas propriedades propostas por Hopper e Thompson (1980)? Partimos do pressuposto de que a constru??o medial possui estrutura pr?pria que particulariza sua dimens?o significativa, garantindo um certo distanciamento entre o respons?vel pelo evento e a entidade afetada. A fundamenta??o te?rica prov?m da Lingu?stica Funcional Centrada no Uso (FURTADO DA CUNHA; BISPO; SILVA, 2013). ? uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativo-interpretativista que tem como prioridade a an?lise de ocorr?ncias oriundas de textos produzidos por usu?rios da l?ngua portuguesa do Brasil em situa??o efetiva de comunica??o. Os dados emp?ricos analisados prov?m de textos eletr?nicos dispon?veis no s?tio www.reclameaqui.com.br. Os resultados revelaram a exist?ncia de diferentes configura??es em portugu?s para a constru??o medial, sendo a protot?pica a formada por SN+V. Do ponto de vista morfossint?tico e sem?ntico, a constru??o expressa um sujeito afetado por uma a??o que n?o parte dele. Quanto ao aspecto pragm?tico, a constru??o expressa um evento que parece ter como prop?sito enfatizar o argumento afetado e ignorar, intencionalmente ou n?o, o agente ou o causativo, por ser irrelevante para o falante/ouvinte na situa??o de comunica??o. / This thesis examines the medial construction of the Portuguese of Brazil (PB). It is a construction which describes a causative event in which a non-human subject participant is affected by an action that does not originate from itself. Thus, we are interested in investigating this type of construction, its specific characteristics, motivations and discursive context from its semantic- cognitive and discoursive - pragmatic functions. The research questions are: what is the prototypical structural configuration of the medial construction (MC) in the Portuguese of Brazil? What are its specific discoursive functions? What is the degree of MC transitivity based on the properties proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980)? We assume that the medial construction has its own structure which particularizes its significant dimension, thus ensuring a certain distance between the one in charge of the event and the affected entity. The theoretical and methodological assumptions is founded on Usage-based Functional Linguistics (FURTADO DA CUNHA; BISPO; SILVA, 2013). It is a research of qualitative- interpretative nature that has prioritized the analysis of occurrences arising from texts produced by users of the Brazilian Portuguese language in effective communicative situation. The database for this study is electronic texts available on the website www.reclameaqui.com.br. The results revealed the existence of different configurations of the medial construction in the Brazilian Portuguese, having as prototypical the one formed by SN + V. From the morphosyntactic and semantic point of view, the construction expresses a subject affected by an action that does not part from itself. As for the pragmatic aspect, the construction expresses an event that seems to have the purpose to emphasize the affected argument and to ignore, intentionally or not, the agent or the causative, since it is irrelevant to the speaker/ listener in the contextual situation.