This study examines English language teaching practices at a public secondary school in Korea. The study documents teaching practices and participation and interaction in class, within the context of the National Curriculum for English Education. Classroom practices, the Curriculum and the textbook used by the teacher are analysed from the perspective of language as a meaning-making resource and language learning as learning how to mean. An ethnographic research approach to data collection and analysis has been employed. Classes were video-recorded and transcribed in order to describe English language use. This took place in two stages. In the first stage the teacher’s normal English lessons based on a textbook were documented. In the second, intervention stage, the teacher and researcher planned and implemented text-based lessons with the same class. The analysis of the Curriculum, the textbook and English use in normal classes reveals a theory of language and language teaching based on learning traditional grammar and memorization of words and phrases. The intervention lessons offered alternative opportunities for students to share meanings in English. The evidence from this study has provided insights into the social practices and discourses in an English as a foreign language secondary school class. The analysis shows discourse changes depending on the type of texts used. The use of authentic texts offered students opportunities for making meanings in context. This has implications for teaching English in Korea, particularly given the National Curriculum’s aim to develop communication skills in English. The study proposes further research into the application of text-based and content-based teaching to develop learners’ meaning-making in English. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1317189 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2007

The aim for this paper has been to examine three textbooks designed for science education in upper secondary school in order to determine whether they convey any specific attitudes regarding what is considered to be ideal knowledge within the field of biology. The main focus has been to investigate if different types of design strategies have been used to emphasize certain values or attitudes and if this proves to be the case, how is this achieved specifically?                       For this purpose I have conducted several different qualitative linguistic analyses of the textbooks. The theoretical framework for the analyses lies within the main field of critical linguistics and more specifically in the context of systemic functional linguistics. The two main language models I have chosen to use for my investigations are functional grammar and multimodal text analysis.                       My results imply amongst other things that by conducting an overall assessment of the headlines in the textbooks a fair assessment can be made of which overall attitudes the books convey. Another founding that has proven to be of relevance is the multimodal analysis of the introductory chapter within each textbook. This chapter conveys more than anything else the true attitudes the authors have, not only towards the school subject itself but also, to the reader. Furthermore, the overall language use in the introduction significantly reveals the textbooks approach and usability as an educational tool. / Min ambition med denna uppsats har varit att analysera tre olika läroböcker i gymnasiekursen Biologi 1 för att undersöka vad och hur de förmedlar kunskapsideal kring innehåll och mening. Jag har velat undersöka om det finns skillnader i de olika böckernas didaktiska designstrategier och vad dessa eventuella skillnader har för olika betydelsepotentialer. För att försöka få svar på mina frågor har jag genomfört min undersökning i flera steg. Inledningsvis jämförde jag de olika böckernas övergripande struktur och innehåll. Därefter har jag ställt dessa resultat i relation till vad kursplanen i ämnet specificerar som centrala innehåll och slutligen genomförde jag en komparativ multimodal kompositionsanalys av introduktionskapitlet samt avsnittet i vardera boken som beskriver cellens uppbyggnad Den teoretiska utgångspunkten för läroboksanalyserna i denna uppsats ligger inom huvudområdet kritisk lingvistik och mer specifikt inom ramen för systemisk-funktionell lingvistik. De två vägledande språkteorierna och modellerna som jag använde mig av var funktionell- och multimodal textanalys. Resultaten indikerar att det går att göra en initial bedömning av lärobokens ”värdegrund” genom att lägga tid på att uppmärksamma några av de referenspunkter som jag har använt mig av. Rubrikerna har visat sig vara bra värdemätare för olika inställningar och framförallt förekomsten av frågeställningar och enstaka ord i rubrikerna. Introduktionskapitlet avslöjar mer än vad producenterna troligen inser angående bokens inställning till såväl läsaren som ämnet. Dock indikerar det generella språkbruket mer än allt annat vilken relation boken öppnar för gentemot läsaren samt även vilket ansvar den är beredd att ta för att fungera som ett pedagogiskt verktyg.

In this thesis the structure of the nominal group in Black South African English (BSAfE) is investigated by means of a comparison of data from the Tswana Learner English Corpus (TLEC) and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS). Both corpora consist of student essays and are sub-corpora of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). The TLEC represents a non-native variety of English, namely BSAfE, while LOCNESS represents native English from the United States and the United Kingdom. In the existing literature there are observations about and examples of (non-standard) characterizing features of BSAfE pertaining to nouns, determiners and quantifiers (e.g. Gough 1996), but until now, no in-depth study of the grammar of the nominal group in BSAfE has been undertaken. This study is an attempt to fill that gap. I present a description of the grammatical features of BSAfE observed in the corpus data in terms of linguistic functions and without assuming that they are errors or evidence of deficiencies. Though the approach is comparative (in the sense that a control corpus is used), it is primarily descriptive and non-normative, and as such, function-based. This study is conducted within the theoretical framework of functional linguistics, drawing on systemic functional linguistics as well as other functional and cognitive approaches to language. The specifying functions that the nominal group and its elements may fulfill form the basis of the descriptive framework. These functions are (1) the type-specifying function of the noun, (2) the (referent-)specifying function of the determiner, (3) quantification and (4) quality specification by modifiers and complements. The type-specifying function of the noun is particularly relevant in Chapter 4, which deals with the grammatical patterns of the noun people, although it also informs analyses in Chapters 5 and 6 which deal with determiners and quantification respectively. Quality specification is especially relevant in the description of the grammatical patterns of the noun people. The noun people is the most frequent noun in each of the corpora, but is at the same time a positive keyword in the TLEC, which means that it occurs much more frequently in the TLEC than in LOCNESS. Analysis of the full corpus concordances of this noun provides much evidence of anti-deletion in BSAfE (as first postulated by Mesthrie, 2006) and also sheds some light on left dislocation patterns involving the noun people (cf. Mesthrie, 1997). This analysis also reveals unique uses of the definite article and certain quantifying constructions in the TLEC data, which are investigated in the next two analysis chapters. A comparison of concordance samples of the articles indicates that the definite/indefinite distinction is made in both corpora and that there is not enough corpus evidence to postulate that there is a different system underlying the choice of article in BSAfE, such as a system based principally on the specific/non-specific distinction, as postulated by Platt, Weber and Ho (1984) for New Englishes in general. Analysis of the concordances of demonstrative and possessive determiners indicate that these determiners are used proportionally more frequently in the TLEC than in LOCNESS. Concordances of the words that are normally classified as quantifiers indicate that there are many more partitive-of quantifying constructions in the TLEC than in LOCNESS. The words some and most are positive keywords in the TLEC. After analyses of their concordances, it is concluded that their relative frequency can be attributed to the fact that some is often used merely as an indefinite marker and that most is often used as a synonym for many. The study shows that BSAfE largely shares its general grammar of the nominal group with other (including native) varieties of English, but at a finer level of analysis, some characteristic constructions and uses are detected. The corpus data indicate that the unique constructions in the TLEC data are mostly functionally motivated. These constructions represent conventionalized innovations in the sense used by Van Rooy (2010), rather than mere language learning errors. / Thesis (PhD (Linguistics and Literary Theory))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

In this thesis the structure of the nominal group in Black South African English (BSAfE) is investigated by means of a comparison of data from the Tswana Learner English Corpus (TLEC) and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS). Both corpora consist of student essays and are sub-corpora of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). The TLEC represents a non-native variety of English, namely BSAfE, while LOCNESS represents native English from the United States and the United Kingdom. In the existing literature there are observations about and examples of (non-standard) characterizing features of BSAfE pertaining to nouns, determiners and quantifiers (e.g. Gough 1996), but until now, no in-depth study of the grammar of the nominal group in BSAfE has been undertaken. This study is an attempt to fill that gap. I present a description of the grammatical features of BSAfE observed in the corpus data in terms of linguistic functions and without assuming that they are errors or evidence of deficiencies. Though the approach is comparative (in the sense that a control corpus is used), it is primarily descriptive and non-normative, and as such, function-based. This study is conducted within the theoretical framework of functional linguistics, drawing on systemic functional linguistics as well as other functional and cognitive approaches to language. The specifying functions that the nominal group and its elements may fulfill form the basis of the descriptive framework. These functions are (1) the type-specifying function of the noun, (2) the (referent-)specifying function of the determiner, (3) quantification and (4) quality specification by modifiers and complements. The type-specifying function of the noun is particularly relevant in Chapter 4, which deals with the grammatical patterns of the noun people, although it also informs analyses in Chapters 5 and 6 which deal with determiners and quantification respectively. Quality specification is especially relevant in the description of the grammatical patterns of the noun people. The noun people is the most frequent noun in each of the corpora, but is at the same time a positive keyword in the TLEC, which means that it occurs much more frequently in the TLEC than in LOCNESS. Analysis of the full corpus concordances of this noun provides much evidence of anti-deletion in BSAfE (as first postulated by Mesthrie, 2006) and also sheds some light on left dislocation patterns involving the noun people (cf. Mesthrie, 1997). This analysis also reveals unique uses of the definite article and certain quantifying constructions in the TLEC data, which are investigated in the next two analysis chapters. A comparison of concordance samples of the articles indicates that the definite/indefinite distinction is made in both corpora and that there is not enough corpus evidence to postulate that there is a different system underlying the choice of article in BSAfE, such as a system based principally on the specific/non-specific distinction, as postulated by Platt, Weber and Ho (1984) for New Englishes in general. Analysis of the concordances of demonstrative and possessive determiners indicate that these determiners are used proportionally more frequently in the TLEC than in LOCNESS. Concordances of the words that are normally classified as quantifiers indicate that there are many more partitive-of quantifying constructions in the TLEC than in LOCNESS. The words some and most are positive keywords in the TLEC. After analyses of their concordances, it is concluded that their relative frequency can be attributed to the fact that some is often used merely as an indefinite marker and that most is often used as a synonym for many. The study shows that BSAfE largely shares its general grammar of the nominal group with other (including native) varieties of English, but at a finer level of analysis, some characteristic constructions and uses are detected. The corpus data indicate that the unique constructions in the TLEC data are mostly functionally motivated. These constructions represent conventionalized innovations in the sense used by Van Rooy (2010), rather than mere language learning errors. / Thesis (PhD (Linguistics and Literary Theory))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

漢語的動補結構長久以來一直是漢語語言學中一個複雜難解的議題，動補結構中的論元在句法上應如何體現及其相對應的語意應如何解讀更是許多語言學家致力解決的問題。衍生語法學派 (Derivational Grammar) 的學者 (Cheng and Huang, 1994; Cheng et al, 1997; Huang, 2006, 2007; Li, 1995) 及詞彙功能語法學派 (Lexical Functional Grammar) 的學者 (Her, 2004, 2007, 2009; Shibagaki, 2009) 均曾試圖提出對於漢語動補結構最正確有效的分析，本論文旨在證明衍生語法學派之理論在動補結構分析上的錯誤及不足，並點出詞彙功能語法學派之理論在預測動補結構的論元體現 (argument realization) 及語意解讀 (semantic interpretation) 上有較全面的分析。 然而，某些動補結構，如「這一大桌子菜胖死我了」，含有不同於其他動補結構的致使義 (Causativity)，進而產生特殊的論元體現模式，此情形卻未被涵蓋在詞彙功能語法學派的理論分析中，本論文也依循詞彙功能語法的理論框架，試圖提出足以預測此種特定動補結構論元體現的句法規則，以彌補詞彙功能語法理論在分析此動補結構的論元體現上之遺漏，使其整體分析更臻完善。 / Resultative compounds in Mandarin Chinese have long been a complicated issue in Chinese linguistics. Many researchers have put great effort in trying to solve the problem of how arguments of Chinese resultative compounds should be syntactically realized and how corresponding interpretations should be achieved. Researchers of Derivational Grammar (Cheng and Huang, 1994; Cheng et al, 1997; Huang, 2006, 2007; Li, 1995) and those of Lexical Functional Grammar (Her, 2004, 2007, 2009; Shibagaki, 2009) have all attempted to propose analyses that are accurate in predicting the argument realization and compound predication of Chinese resultative compounds. This thesis aims to prove the insufficiency in the prediction power of derivational accounts and endeavors to show that the account of Lexical Functional Grammar is superior in the analysis of resultative compounds in terms of argument realization and compound interpretation. However, some resultative compounds, such as that in zhe yi da zhuozi cai pang-si wo le (‘This whole table of dishes is making me fat.’), have certain causativity that makes them different from others in terms of argument realization. Resultative compounds like these are not included in the analysis of lexicalist accounts. Based on the theoretical framework of Lexical Functional Grammar, this thesis also makes an attempt to propose a syntactic rule that predicts the correct argument realization pattern of the kind of resultative compounds mentioned above. It is the goal of this thesis that the proposed rule covers the analysis of the resultative compounds that is missing in previous accounts and makes the lexicalist account given in this thesis a better solution in working on the issues of Chinese resultative compounds.

LUCENA, Izabel Larissa. A expressão da evidencialidade no discurso político: uma análise da oratória política da Assembléia Legislativa do Ceará. 2008, 224f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2008. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-08-21T15:06:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_Diss_ILLucena.pdf: 1910986 bytes, checksum: ee0de2a42673942ebf55fabd4a2dd957 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2013-10-10T13:10:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_Diss_ILLucena.pdf: 1910986 bytes, checksum: ee0de2a42673942ebf55fabd4a2dd957 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-10T13:10:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_Diss_ILLucena.pdf: 1910986 bytes, checksum: ee0de2a42673942ebf55fabd4a2dd957 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / The present research aims at investigating the expression of evidentiality and its relation to the degrees of public speaker’s commitment with the contents uttered in political speech argumentation’s construction. Thirty speeches, subdivided in two thematic groups: 1) the arrival of a petrol refinery in the state of Ceará; and 2) the transposition of São Francisco River, and delivered in the Small Expedient of Ordinary Sessions in the State legislature of Ceará, from 2005 to 2006, consisted the corpus of analysis. In this work, evidentiality analysis is concerned with the syntactic aspects (linguistic contexts, position in the statement), semantic (type of source, strategy of information’s dissemination in the statement, what is directly related to the way as the speaker desires to demonstrate that he got the information presented by himself) and pragmatic (degrees of commitment of the politician with the content of his speech, elicited images in the argumentative process, discursive roles assumed by the items of evidence). We support the hypothesis that factors of conceptual, interacional and contextual order, as the communicative intentions of the politician, the conditions of production and the image that this politician desires to construct of himself before the audience, condition the evidentiality manifestation, the type of evidential qualification, as well as the (lack of) commitment’s effects of meaning from the politician with his speech. We adopted, mainly, the functionalist theoretical basis, in which the user assumes a central role in the inquiry; the linguistic description includes, therefore, reference to the speaker, to the listener and to their roles and statutes defined in the verbal interaction (DIK, 1989). The results reveal that, in political speech argumentation’s construction, the use of evidences marks from the cited defined type of source prevails, proving that the politician prefers not to commit himself to the reported information, assuring to the interlocutor this responsibility to evaluate the validity of the information, in accordance with the quality of the expressed source. With regard to the evidential marks that we assume as referents of the speaker’s axis (inferential and subjective experiences), we verify that, although in lesser amount, they constitute important strategies in the construction of political action’s legitimating images, since the speaker shows confidence in his ideas and projects. Concerning the morphosyntatic aspects of the evidentiality, we observe that the verb is the way of more frequent expression of this category, occupying, mainly, the intercalated position (between the source and the declared content). / Este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar a expressão da evidencialidade e sua relação com os graus de comprometimento dos oradores com os conteúdos enunciados na construção da argumentação no discurso político. Para tal fim, analisamos trinta discursos (subdivididos em dois grupos temáticos: 1º grupo – a vinda da Refinaria de Petróleo para o Ceará; 2º grupo – a Transposição do Rio São Francisco), proferidos no Pequeno Expediente de Sessões Ordinárias na Assembléia Legislativa do Estado do Ceará, durante o período de 2005 e 2006. A evidencialidade é analisada, neste trabalho, quanto aos aspectos sintáticos (meio lingüístico, posição no enunciado), semânticos (tipo de fonte, estratégia de veiculação da informação no enunciado, o que está diretamente relacionado ao modo como o enunciador deseja demonstrar que obteve a informação por ele apresentada) e pragmáticos (graus de comprometimento do político com o conteúdo do seu discurso, imagens por ele suscitadas no processo argumentativo, papéis discursivos assumidos pelos itens evidenciais). Sustentamos a hipótese de que fatores de ordem conceptual, interacional e contextual, como os propósitos enunciativos do político, as condições de produção e a imagem que esse político deseja construir de si ante o auditório, condicionam a manifestação da evidencialidade, o tipo de qualificação evidencial, bem como os efeitos de sentido de (des)comprometimento do político com o seu discurso. Adotamos, principalmente, a base teórica funcionalista, em que o usuário assume papel central na investigação; a descrição lingüística inclui, portanto, referência ao falante, ao ouvinte e a seus papéis e estatutos definidos na interação verbal (DIK, 1989). Os resultados obtidos revelam que, na construção da argumentação no discurso político, predomina o uso de marcas evidenciais do tipo relatado de fonte definida, comprovando que o político prefere não se comprometer com a informação reportada, assegurando ao interlocutor a possibilidade de avaliar por si só a validade da informação, de acordo com a qualidade da fonte expressa. Com relação às marcas evidenciais que assumimos como atinentes ao eixo do enunciador (experienciais, inferenciais e subjetivas), verificamos que, embora em menor quantidade, constituem estratégias importantes na construção de imagens legitimadoras da ação política, já que o enunciador se mostra como alguém convicto de suas idéias e projetos. Quanto aos aspectos morfossintáticos da evidencialidade, observamos que o verbo é o meio de expressão mais freqüente dessa categoria, ocupando, majoritariamente, a posição intercalada (entre a fonte e o conteúdo enunciado).

Este trabalho se situa na fronteira entre os estudos culturais e os estudos lingüísticos. Ele tem como objetivo observar possíveis diferenças em termos de organização de gênero e escolhas lexicais entre os anúncios pessoais feitos por gays e heterossexuais do sexo masculino. O corpus de análise consiste de quarenta anúncios retirados de dois sites de encontros da Internet, sendo que vinte são originariamente escritos por gays e os outros vinte por heterossexuais do sexo masculino. A base desta pesquisa se encontra nos trabalhos de Swales (1990) e Bhatia (1993) sobre a descrição de gêneros e no trabalho de Hoey (1997) sobre narrativas eróticas. Deste último retiramos alguns conceitos sobre a auto-descrição e a descrição do objeto de desejo. Inicialmente, os anúncios eletrônicos pessoais são comparados com anúncios pessoais impressos (cf. Shalom 1997), na tentativa de verificar como os anúncios impressos podem ter se adaptado ao meio digital. Num segundo momento, a análise se concentra na aplicação do sistema de Avaliação (ou Appraisal) de Martin e White (2005) a fim de caracterizarmos como os gays e heterossexuais do sexo masculino avaliam a si próprios e a seus objetos de desejo. A dissertação sugere que há diferenças relacionadas ao posicionamento atitudinal dos gays e heterossexuais, especialmente em relação à utilização de Afeto. Observam-se diferenças também não previstas por nossas perguntas de pesquisa, que não podem ser atribuídas nem às organizações diferentes dos sites, nem às escolhas lexicais dos anunciantes, mas sim aos tipos de sites e audiências escolhidos pelos anunciantes / The present work lies on the borderline of cultural and linguistic studies. It aims at examining whether there are differences concerning genre organization and lexical choices in ads filled in by gay and heterosexual males. The corpus consists of forty ads from two dating sites on the internet: twenty are originally written by gay males and the other twenty are written by heterosexual males. This research draws on works such as Swales (1990) and Bhatias (1993) on genre description and on Hoeys (1997) on erotic narratives. From the latter we have borrowed a few key concepts to help us analyze self and other description. At an early stage, the internet ads are compared to printed ads (cf. Shalom 1997) in an attempt to check how these ads should have adapted to the digital medium. Afterwards, we resort to Martin and Whites (2005) Appraisal system so as to characterize how gays and heterosexuals see themselves and their desired others. The dissertation suggests that there are differences related to the attitudinal positioning of gays and heterosexuals, particularly in the use of Affect. There are also findings unforeseen at the beginning of the research. In other words, these differences do not come down either to the variation in the organization of the sites, or to the lexical choices of the advertisers, but rather to the kind of site chosen by the advertisers

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:25:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5291.pdf: 1691147 bytes, checksum: 6237019159d4f6ec433bc53b411ea868 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-18 / Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos / In this research, we propose the synchronic study of adverbial clauses initiated by conjunctions dado que, desde que and uma vez que in written Brazilian Portuguese. Considering that these conjunctions may express causality and conditionality, the distinction between the interpretation of causal clauses and conditional clauses is not only a result of syntactic features but also of semantic and pragmatic ones. The analysis is based on the Functionalist Theory, in the terms of Dik (1989), Hengeveld (1998), Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008), Sweetser (1990), among others, and this study provides, through a detailed description of these conjuctions at the discourse level, characteristics of dado que, desde que and uma vez que in their effective use. The corpus of this research is composed by written texts, which were collected at the Corpus do Português, available at: http://www.corpusdoportugues.org. The features considered in this analysis were: (i) the order of the causal and the conditional clauses in relation to the main clause, (ii) the verbal tenses correlations, (iii) the semantic parameters (type of entity; factuality; presupposition and time dependence) proposed by Hengeveld (1998), (iv) levels and layers of analysis, according to Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008), and (v) domains of use of Sweetser (1990). This research aims at showing how a natural language user 'acts', so that his/her verbal interaction is successful in face of his/her communicative intentions. This study also provides linguistic subsidies for the automatic treatment of language. / Neste trabalho, propõe-se o estudo sincrônico das orações adverbiais iniciadas pelas locuções conjuntivas dado que, desde que e por uma vez que no português escrito do Brasil. Considerando que essas locuções conjuntivas podem expressar as relações de causalidade e de condicionalidade, a distinção entre uma interpretação e outra não é resultado apenas de fatores sintáticos mas também de fatores de natureza semântica e pragmática. Baseada em pressupostos teóricos funcionalistas como os de Dik (1989), Hengeveld (1998), Hengeveld e Mackenzie (2008), Sweetser (1990), entre outros, esta pesquisa fornece, por meio de uma descrição detalhada do comportamento funcional dessas locuções no nível discursivo, as características de dado que, desde que e de uma vez que em contextos reais de uso. Com base nas ocorrências fornecidas por textos escritos, obtidas no Corpus do Português, disponível em: <http://www.corpusdoportugues.org>, examinam-se fatores como: (i) a ordem frasal dominante da oração causal/condicional em relação à oração-núcleo; (ii) as correlações modotemporais; (iii) os parâmetros semânticos (tipo de entidade; factualidade; pressuposição e dependência temporal) propostos por Hengeveld (1998); (iv) níveis e camadas de Hengeveld e Mackenzie (2008), e (v) os domínios de Sweetser (1990). Esta pesquisa procura demonstrar como o usuário de uma língua natural opera de modo que a interação verbal seja bem sucedida conforme suas intenções comunicativas e ainda fornece subsídios linguísticos para o tratamento automático da linguagem.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation has as theme the study of the existential processes from the transitivity system of the systemic-functional grammar (HALLIDAY & MATTHIESSEN, 2004). This functionalist approach understands language as a system that can be stratified and categorized. In view of this possibility, that works at the same time with numerical data and whit analysis and interpretation of the findings in a given context. The main objective of this research is to identify the verbs that can constitute existential processes, both prototypical as other verbs, in a corpus of sixteen (16) cover reports of the Superinteressante magazine, been eight (8) reports with a scientific thematic and eight (8) with a historical thematic. In the beginning we created a wordlist, with the assistance of the tool Word Smith (SCOTT, 2008), selected all the verbs that may function as existential processes and analyzed all the occurrences. The fifteen (15) most frequent verbs were analyzed in this research. The results point to the prevalence of the verbs there is and to exist in science reports, and to die and to born in historical reports. The Existents, more frequently function in thematic position, are mostly not conscious beings. Few are the Existents that refer to persons. The verb to have , typical of the Brazilian spoken language, is used with the sense of to exist and has it‟s Existent always in rhematic position. These results can contribute to the existential processes description in the Halliday‟s perspective. From this, we interpreted the contribution of the existential processes to the report genre (BONINI, 2003; LAGE, 1987; MELO, 1994) according to the Superinteressante magazine‟s thematics. / Esta dissertação tem como tema o estudo dos processos existenciais do sistema de transitividade da gramática sistêmico-funcional (HALLIDAY & MATTHIESSEN, 2004). Esta abordagem funcionalista entende a linguagem como um sistema que pode ser estratificado e categorizado. Tendo em vista essa possibilidade, realizamos uma pesquisa quantitativa e qualitativa, que trabalha ao mesmo tempo com dados numéricos e com análise e interpretação dos achados em um determinado contexto. O principal objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar verbos que podem constituir processos existenciais em língua portuguesa, tanto os prototípicos quanto outros verbos, em um corpus de dezesseis (16) reportagens de capa da revista Superinteressante, sendo oito (8) reportagens com temática científica e oito (8) com temática histórica. Inicialmente, criamos uma lista de palavras com o auxílio da ferramenta Word Smith (SCOTT, 2008), selecionamos todos os verbos que poderiam funcionar como processos existenciais e analisamos todas as suas ocorrências. Foram analisados os quinze (15) verbos mais frequentes na pesquisa realizada. Os resultados apontam para a prevalência dos verbos haver e existir em reportagens científicas, e morrer e nascer em reportagens históricas. Os Existentes, mais frequentemente funcionando em posição temática, constituem, em sua maioria, seres não conscientes. Poucos são os Existentes referidos a pessoas. O verbo ter , típico da linguagem falada brasileira, é empregado com sentido de existir e tem seu Existente sempre em posição remática. Esses resultados podem contribuir para a descrição das orações existenciais na perspectiva hallidayana. A partir disso, interpretamos a contribuição dos processos existenciais para o gênero reportagem (BONINI, 2003; LAGE, 1987; MELO, 1994) de acordo com as temáticas da revista Superinteressante.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JamesAV_DISSERT.pdf: 1923598 bytes, checksum: d9266e41671164a667a765ae1b875088 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-16 / O vasto n?mero de pesquisas sobre produ??o oral no ensino de Ingl?s como L?ngua Estrangeira (ILE) ao redor do mundo (p. ex. LITTLEWOOD, 1981; BROWN; YULE, 1983; BROWN, 1994; UR, 1996; CARTER; MCCARTHY, 1997; BROWN, 1994; 2004; ELLIS, 2008), assim como estudos sobre aspectos cognitivos e de aquisi??o da produ??o oral (SWAIN, 1985; 1995; LEVELT, 1989; SWAIN; LAPKIN, 1995; SKEHAN; FOSTER, 1997; 1999; ROBINSON, 2001; BYGATE, 2001; D&#8223;ELY;WEISSHEIMER, 2004; GUAR?-TAVARES, 2007; WEISSHEIMER, 2007; BERGSLEITHNER, 2009; dentre outros) t?m revelado aspectos para um ensino de ILE mais eficaz e motivador. Com a proposta de contribuir para esse avan?o, o presente estudo est? inserido no paradigma qualiquantitativo de pesquisa no campo da Lingu?stica Aplicada (LA), primordialmente com base nos estudos de Moita Lopes (1996; 2006), para quem a LA est? centrada na resolu??o de problemas de uso da linguagem, cujo foco est? na linguagem de natureza processual. O estudo tem como objetivo verificar as percep??es de 34 alunos, de quatro turmas distintas de um curso de ILE, em uma escola privada de l?nguas, acerca de sua produ??o oral, ao participarem de atividades orais. O corpus da pesquisa foi gerado pelas respostas dos alunos a questionamentos sobre sua produ??o oral, em duas fases, no in?cio e no meio do curso, al?m de uma entrevista semiestruturada realizada com dez dos alunos, ao final do curso, com o intuito de verificar suas percep??es sobre sua produ??o oral. As discuss?es relacionadas ? produ??o oral em sala de aula de ILE t?m respaldo te?rico nos trabalhos de Littlewood (1981), Brown e Yule (1983), Almeida Filho (1993), Brown (1994), Ur (1996), Carter e McCarthy (1997), Nunan (1999), Brown (2004) e Ellis (2008), que explicam fen?menos que exercem influ?ncia na produ??o oral, tais como afeto, intera??o, caracter?sticas de atividades orais, dentre outras vari?veis em rela??o a aspectos cognitivos da produ??o oral analisadas pelos estudos de Swain (1985; 1995), Levelt (1989), Swain e Lapkin (1995), Skehan e Foster (1997; 1999), Robinson (2001) e Bygate (2001). A an?lise e discuss?o dos dados tem como base a Gram?tica Sist?mico-Funcional proposta por Halliday (1985; 1994) e posteriormente desenvolvida por Halliday e Hasan (1989), Halliday e Mathiessen (2004) e Eggins (2004), dentre outros. O foco desta pesquisa s?o os mecanismos de Aprecia??o, um dos dom?nios avaliativos do subsistema de Atitude, que por sua vez, ? parte integrante do Sistema de Avaliatividade, desenvolvido por Martin (2000), Martin e Rose (2003) e Martin e White (2005). Para an?lise das escolhas lingu?sticas feitas pelos alunos, utilizamos a ferramenta computacional WordSmith Tools 6.0 (SCOTT, 2010), cuja fun??o Wordlist (lista de palavras) foi utilizada na busca pelos tipos de processos, assim como ep?tetos, entre outras marcas lingu?sticas mais recorrentes que caracterizassem suas percep??es. Os resultados revelam que nas percep??es dos alunos acerca de sua produ??o oral, ao longo das tr?s fases da gera??o dos dados para a pesquisa, eles gradativamente deixaram de mencionar aspectos afetivos quanto ao desenvolvimento de sua produ??o oral e passaram a perceber aspectos mais estruturais de composi??o da l?ngua