Orientador: Terezinha de Jesus Machado Maher / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T13:16:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Niederauer_Marcia_D.pdf: 10976712 bytes, checksum: 5c85cb91551aed44f6f92aa3d20ca576 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A pesquisa aqui descrita visou investigar a forma como o ingresso e a participação de alunos indígenas no ensino superior é representada pelo site da Universidade de Brasília, confrontando-a com a forma com que sites indígenas os apresentam. Essa investigação partiu do princípio de que são com base no sistema dominante de representação acerca de grupos minoritários que são formuladas políticas públicas voltadas para esses grupos, tais como as de cotas e de reserva de vagas no ensino superior. Outra premissa da qual esta pesquisa partiu é a de que a internet é um dos espaços cruciais dos embates contemporâneos em torno da representação. Para tanto, analiso um corpus formado por textos selecionados no portal UnB e em sites mantidos por universitários ou organizações civis indígenas, valendo-me primordialmente de categorias de análise propostas por Kress e van Leeuwen (2006), van Leeuwen (1997) e Thompson (2002). Por meio do paralelo entre os textos que formam o corpus, esta tese buscou examinar se a forma como a universidade representa esse grupo, cujo protagonismo fora historicamente inviabilizado na esfera de atividades acadêmicas, contribui para os esforços que povos indígenas e universidade têm empreendido, visando democratizar o acesso ao ensino superior no Brasil e promover a pluralidade no espaço acadêmico / Abstract: The research developed here aims to investigate how the entry and participation of Indigenous Students in higher education are represented by the official website of the University of Brasília and also by websites related to indigenous students. This research assumes that public policies for minorities, such as affirmative action in higher education, are based on the dominant system of representation, and, as well, that the internet is one of the main fields where contemporary struggles around representation are pursued. For this purpose, I analyze a corpus composed of texts from the website of the University of Brasilia and websites supported by indigenous students and civic organizations, taking into account primarily the analytical categories proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), van Leeuwen (1997) and Thompson (2002).Through the comparison between the texts of this corpus, this thesis seeks to examine if the way as the university represents this group, whose role was historically undermined in the sphere of academic activities, contributes indeed to the efforts that indigenous peoples and the university itself have undertaken in order to democratize the access to higher education in Brazil and to promote diversity in the academic sphere / Doutorado / Multiculturalismo, Plurilinguismo e Educação Bilingue / Doutora em Lingüística Aplicada

The present dissertation reports the results of a multi-disciplinary experimental study, which combines psycholinguistic and cognitive methodologies in order to achieve two broad objectives. The first objective is providing a comparative psycholinguistic analysis of the expression of motion events in three languages, namely Turkish, English and French, taking Talmy&lsquo / s verb-framed language vs. satellite-framed language typology (Talmy, 1985) as the framework. The second one is investigating the relationship between linguistic representation and conceptual representation by taking motion events as the testing ground. In order to pursue these two lines of inquiry, five complementary tasks are conducted on three groups of adult subjects. The results of the first two tasks, the language production task and the language comprehension task, verify the Talmyan typology experimentally by showing sharp differences between the data obtained from native speakers of typologically different languages (English vs. Turkish and French), as well as remarkable similarities between the data obtained from native speakers of typologically similar languages (Turkish and French). On the other hand, the remaining three non-verbal tasks, the categorization task and the two eye-tracking tasks, present valuable insights into the nature of conceptual event representation by revealing a uniform pattern across languages. This latter result is inconsistent with the renowned linguistic relativity hypothesis (Whorf, 1956) / however in line with the universalist view (Jackendoff, 1990, 1996), which suggests that conceptual event representation is language-free and independent of the linguistic encoding preferences of different languages.