Many evangelical Christians distance themselves from the mainstream commercial culture, because they perceive mainstream media and popular culture to promulgate immoral messages through representations such as sex and violence. This disconnect from Hollywood have made evangelicals a tough audience to market. Sony, however, has been able to connect with the evangelical market by producing a line of contemporary Christian films through their in-house division Affirm Films. By prioritizing the narratives of their films Heaven is for Real, War Room, and Miracles From Heaven to focus on contemporary Christian characters, conflicts, and settings, Sony is able to attract the evangelical audience with films that align with their conservative belief system.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-04-04T13:24:35Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissert_Rebeca-BC.pdf: 1676162 bytes, checksum: dab8e79760f6e9b38c605146c9091b72 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-04T13:24:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissert_Rebeca-BC.pdf: 1676162 bytes, checksum: dab8e79760f6e9b38c605146c9091b72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-07 / CAPES / Essa dissertação tem como objetivo analisar o funcionamento dos Processos Verbais dizer e afirmar e seus Participantes, bem como as Modalidades que se apresentam atreladas a esses Processos, em dissertações de Linguística, defendidas no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UFPE (PPGL-UFPE) no período de 1985 a 2004. Pretende-se entender como esses Processos contribuem para a argumentação característica desse gênero acadêmico. Para chegar a esse fim, recolheu-se essas dissertações do website do Projeto Letras Digitais, e, em seguida, aplicou-se o software Wordsmith Tools que, através da ferramenta Concord, forneceu uma listagem com todas as ocorrências dos Processos dizer e afirmar. Essas ocorrências, com foco naquele que diz e naquilo que é dito, foram analisadas e classificadas de acordo com seu padrão léxico-gramatical: tipos de Dizente (Participante 1), tipo de Locução (Participante 2). Para fundamentar as análises, apoiou-se na Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (LSF) e em sua concepção da língua como semiótica social. Dessa teoria, por ter-se como foco estudar os Processos Verbais e suas Modalidades, deteve-se no Sistema de Transitividade (Metafunção Ideacional) e no Sistema de Modalidade (Metafunção Interpessoal). Para a LSF, o Sistema de Transitividade é a categoria léxico-gramatical que representa as ideias de nossas experiências humanas, codificados em um conjunto de diferentes tipos de orações, com diferentes modos de transitividades, como é o caso dos Processos Verbais, os quais são responsáveis pela introdução de um dizer, mediante a associação com três Participantes: dois obrigatórios – Dizente e Verbiagem/Locução; e um opcional – o Receptor. Já o Sistema de Modalidade corresponde aos diferentes graus de certeza que pode compor uma oração e pode apresentarse de duas maneiras: Modalização e Modulação. Os resultados obtidos revelaram a predominância do Processo dizer, em relação ao Processo afirmar, o que permitiu interpretar esse fato como aproximação da oralidade, o que foge ao prescrito para os gêneros acadêmicos. Nossos dados também apontaram que os Dizentes são codificados de quatro maneiras distintas: Grupo Nominal (GN); Grupo Pronominal (GP); Grupo Desinencial (GD) e Sujeito Indeterminado (SI). Dentre esses, foi predominante a presença dos GN, trazendo para o texto vozes de autoridade e de outros discursos alheios em Discurso Direto e em Discurso Indireto; esses último bem mais recorrentes. Nos demais tipos de Dizentes, ressalta-se a presença dos autores, em Discurso Indireto, trazendo seus próprios dizeres, ldenominados de ditos do mestrando. Muitos desses ditos, quando apresentado, são seguidos de Modalidade, atenuando, assim, o que é dito pelos próprios autores. Nossas análises nos levaram a concluir que os Processos Verbais são fundamentais para o desenvolvimento da argumentação pretendida em cada texto, uma vez que permite a circulação de diferentes dizeres, e, dessa forma, garantem a participação de vozes de autoridade que ratificam e fundamentam a defesa de um conteúdo ou de um ponto de vista, além de permitirem que os mestrandos apresentem os seus próprios ditos, posicionando-se, reafirmando, comentando, concluindo, enfim, construindo seu saber sobre o assunto estudado. Esses Processos, ou as orações por eles organizadas são, portanto, de relevância impar na constituição do gênero dissertação. / This dissertation aims to analyze the functioning of Verbal Process to say and to affirm and theirs Participants, as well Modalities, that is using connected to this Process in Linguistics dissertations, publish by Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras of UFPE (PPGL-UFPE), between 1985 and 2004. The intention with this study is to understand how these Processes contribute to argumentation that is a characteristic of this academic genre. For that purpose, these dissertations was took on website of Projeto Letras Digitais, thus; was applied the software Wordsmith Tools and through his tool Concord, was get a list of occurrences of Processes to say and to affirm. With focus on who says and what is said, these occurrences were analyzed and classified according to theirs lexicogrammar settings: types of Sayer (Participant 1), types of Locution (Participant 2). To fundament that analyses, Systemic Functional Linguistics (LSF) and its idea of language as social semiotic was adopted. Of this theory, were focused on System of Transitivity (Ideational Metafunction) and on System of Modality (Interpersonal Metafunction), for have as objective study Verbal Processes and their Modality. For LSF, the System of Transitivity is a lexicogrammar category that represents ideas of our humans experience with different ways of transitivity, as Verbal Process, these are responsible for introduce a saying, associated with three Participants: two obligatory – Sayer, Verbiage/Locution – and Receiver. The System of Modality corresponds to different levels of sureness in a clause and it can be presented in two forms: Modalization and Modulation. The results obtained demonstrate a predominance of Process to say, in relation with Process to affirm, it makes to understand this fact as an approximation of orality, different of prescribed to academics genres. Our results appointed too that Sayer is encoded in four manner: Grupo Nominal (GN); Grupo Pronominal (GP); Grupo Desinencial (GD) e Sujeito Indeterminado (SI). The GN was predominating; bring to the text authority voices and others unrelated speech in direct speech and indirect speech, theses more recurrent. The others types of Sayer was used with authors’ voice, in indirect speech. These were denominated ditos do mestrando. These Sayers occur in many parts of dissertation and contribute with argumentation in the text. Many of ditos do mestrando was used with Modality, attenuating what is said by dissertation’ authors. Our analyses help us to conclude that Verbal Processes are important to developing of the pretending argumentation in each text, because they permit a presence of different voices. In this way, they ensure the participation of authority’ voices that confirm and found a defense and a point of view, in addition to permit that Master students show his owns voices, positioning himself, reaffirming himself, commenting, concluding, at all, construing his knowledge about a subject studied. These Process, or clauses organized by them, are, than, of unpaired relevance in constitution of genre dissertatio

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