As angolanas Alda Lara e Paula Tavares, a cabo-verdiana Vera Duarte, a moçambicana Noémia de Sousa e as são-tomenses Alda Espírito Santo e Conceição Lima são as escritoras que melhor representam a poesia de autoria feminina em seus respectivos países e, embora pertençam a contextos socioeconômicos e culturais bastante diferentes, suas obras se aproximam tanto pela abordagem temática, quanto pela existência de um projeto de construção social do sujeito feminino. Assim, embasamo-nos, teoricamente, nos estudos em especial os de Michel de Certeau (2005) e Maria Odila da Silva Leite Dias (1992; 1994; 1998) em torno da hermenêutica do cotidiano feminino, a fim de demonstrar a importância dos papéis informais, das experiências vividas e da resistência das mulheres no processo de formação de suas subjetividades. Recorremos, ainda, a relatórios baseados em recenseamentos e a diversos documentos elaborados por organismos internacionais, a exemplo da ONU e da UNESCO, para estabelecer os pontos de contato entre a situação das mulheres e os contextos históricos-sociais em que estão elas inscritas, ou seja, Angola, Cabo Verde, Moçambique e São Tomé e Príncipe. Finalmente, aliando os aspectos teóricos e os contextuais, analisamos poemas contidos nas obras iniciais de cada uma das já referidas autoras respectivamente, Poemas (1966), Ritos de passagem (1985), Amanhã amadrugada (1993), Sangue negro (2001), É nosso o solo sagrado da terra (1978) e O útero da casa (2004) e procuramos demonstrar que as mulheres, muitas vezes portadoras de uma voz quase silenciosa e marcada pelas miudezas do cotidiano, inscrevem suas marcas na sociedade e têm o poder de (trans)formá-la e de transformar-se, decorrendo daí o título de nossa tese, De missangas e catanas, alusivo à simbologia da resistência empreendida por elas em favor do afloramento de suas subjetividades e do registro de suas historicidades. / The Angolan Alda Lara and Paula Tavares, the Cape Verdean Vera Duarte, the Mozambican Noémia de Sousa and the Santomean Alda Espírito Santo and Conceição Lima are the writers who best represent the poetry authored by women in their respective countries and, although belonging to very distinct socioeconomic and cultural contexts, their works approach both thematically and as a project of social construction of the female subject. Therefore, our work is based specially in the studies of Michel de Certeau (2005) and Maria Odila da Silva Leite Dias (1992, 1994, 1998) concerning the hermeneutics of everyday life of women in order to demonstrate the importance of informal roles, the experiences of women and the resistance in the formation of their subjectivities. We also recall the reports based on different censuses and documents prepared by international bodies such as the United Nations and UNESCO to establish points of contact between the situation of women and the social-historical contexts in which they are inscribed: Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tome and Principe. Finally, combining the theoretical and contextual aspects, we analyzed poems contained in the initiation works of each of the aforementioned authors respectively - Poemas (1966), Ritos de passagem (1985), Amanhã amadrugada (1993), Sangue negro (2001), É nosso o solo sagrado da terra (1978) and O útero da casa (2004) and we demonstrated that even though women often suffer from an almost silenced voice, marked by the offal of daily life, they inscribed their mark on society having the power of (trans)form it. Hence, this is the origin of the title of our thesis, Of beads and machetes which illustrates the symbols of resistance undertaken by the authors for the blossoming of their subjectivities and for the registering of their historicities.

Tendo como objeto de estudo obras poéticas de Hilda Hilst, brasileira; e Ana Paula Tavares, angolana, esta pesquisa visa a discutir caracteres da construção identitária culturalmente atribuídos à condição feminina, a partir das manifestações eróticas representadas poeticamente na obra dessas autoras. Embora sejam escritoras não diretamente vinculadas a um programa literário feminista, ao representarem poeticamente o erotismo, contribuem para promover a emancipação da mulher. Associam-se, assim, construção erótica e construção da cidadania, analisadas neste projeto de um ângulo simultaneamente literário e sócio-existencial. / Taking as an object of study poetic works from Hilda Hilst, Brazilian; and Ana Paula Tavares, Angolan, this inquiry aims to discuss characters from the identity construction culturally attributed to the feminine condition, derived from the erotic demonstrations poetically represented in the work of these authors. Though they are writers not straightly linked to a literary feminist program, while representing poetically the eroticism they contribute to promote the emancipation of women. Therefore, the erotic construction and the citizenship construction have been associated and analyzed in this project simultaneously from a literary and a social-existential angle.

A presente pesquisa trata da descrição e da análise de estratégias retóricas que abrangem a distribuição e organização funcional e conteudística de segmentos textuais de introduções de dissertações de mestrado. Para o fim proposto, os textos de introduções foram extraídos de dissertações de mestrado do Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Transnationale Germanistik da LMU de Munique e da Área de Alemão da USP, Brasil, escritas nas línguas de cada país: alemão e português. O corpus é composto de 44 textos de introdução. Com base na perspectiva linguístico-contrastiva, as constatações da retórica contrastiva, juntamente com a análise de gênero de orientação sócio-retórica, formam os fundamentos teóricos desse trabalho. Com o intuito de determinar a distribuição e a organização dos segmentos textuais, foi empregado o modelo CARS de SWALES (1990, 2004), desenvolvido inicialmente para analisar a estrutura organizacional de introduções científicas do gênero artigo. A prioridade da presente pesquisa foi a de identificar e localizar as estratégias que o autor da dissertação de mestrado utiliza, para apresentar seu próprio trabalho (movimento 3 de Swales). Devido à grande variação da sequência de estratégias retóricas não foi possível determinar um modelo organizacional claro dos textos nas duas línguas. Contudo, a descrição dos dados tornou possível a constatação de estratégias principais e secundárias empregadas na apresentação dos próprios trabalhos. Incluem-se entre as estratégias principais: a) a denominação do estabelecimento de metas, b) indicações sobre o método de procedimento, assim como c) indicações sobre a estrutura textual. Adicionalmente, é importante para os autores dos textos em questão indicar o que o trabalho não é capaz de realizar, uma estratégia não existente no modelo de Swales e que, para as introduções das dissertações de mestrado consideradas, é essencial. Contextos diferentes da produção (como, por exemplo, posições com graus hierárquicos distintos) conduzem a uma valorização diferente nas metas comunicativas, fazendo com que, por exemplo, o movimento 3 tenha um papel mais importante nas introduções de dissertações do que em artigos científicos, nos quais a revelação de uma lacuna de pesquisa é muito importante. Além da identificação e da organização de estratégias retóricas, também foi considerada a sua realização linguística e gramatical no alemão e no português, assim como examinado o emprego dos pronomes pessoais que indicam as autorreferências. Assim, objetivou-se verificar em que papéis acadêmicos o autor aparece em seus textos. Os fundamentos teóricos empregados foram fornecidos por HYLAND (2002), STEINHOFF (2007) e SCHMIDT (2010). Como resultado é possível afirmar que a) os autores dos textos em português não seguem um mesmo modelo no que concerne ao emprego de pronomes pessoais, b) nos textos em alemão o autor quase não aparece, fazendo com que as referências de autor sem a presença do agente predominem, e c) nos textos em português e em alemão o autor aparece predominantemente na função de autor, isto é, quando, por exemplo, aparecem indicações sobre a organização textual. Os resultados deste trabalho têm como meta servir de subsídio para a produção de material didático que forneça aos futuros mestrandos recursos para a elaboração de textos de introdução nas duas línguas. / This study explores the description and analysis of rhetorical strategies utilized in the content-related distribution and organization of textual segments of master theses introductions. For this purpose, introduction texts were taken from masters dissertations of the Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Transnationale Germanistik of the LMU of Munich and of the German Department at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, each written in its respective national language: German and Portuguese. The corpus consists of 44 introductions. Due to the linguistic contrastive perspective, the findings of the contrastive rhetoric constitute the theoretical basis of this research, together with the genre analysis of socio-rhetoric orientation. In order to determine the distribution and disposal of the text segments, the CARS model by SWALES (1990, 2004) was employed. This model was initially developed to analyze the organizational structure of scientific introductions of research articles. The primary focus of this study is to identify and locate the strategies that each dissertation author uses to present its own work (Swales move 3). Due to a great variety of rhetoric sequences, it was not possible to determine a conclusive organizational structure of the texts in either language. However, a description of the data made it possible to determine primary and secondary strategies employed in the presentation of master theses. Primary strategies include: a) indication of goal setting, b) indications concerning the methodical procedure, as well as c) indications about the structure of the text. Furthermore, it is important for the authors to indicate what cannot be achieved, a strategy which is not considered by Swales in his model and which is essential for the analyzed introductions of masters dissertations. Different production contexts (as, for example, positions with different hierarchical degrees) lead to a different valuation of the communicative goals, having as a result that, for example, move three in master thesis introductions plays a more important role than in scientific articles, in which the indication of a research gap is of great importance. In addition to the identification and organization of rhetoric strategies, linguistic and grammatical use in German and Portuguese was also considered, as well as the use of personal pronouns that indicate references to the author depending on the agent. The intention was to verify in which academic rules the author appears in his texts. The theoretical fundamentals employed were based on HYLAND (2002), STEINHOFF (2007) and SCHMIDT (2010). As a result, it is possible to state that a) the authors of texts in Portuguese do not follow the same model concerning the use of personal pronouns, b) in the German text the authorial presence is frequently hidden behind passive forms c) in the Portuguese, as well as in the German texts, the author appears mainly in the rule of the agent, for example, when indications about the textual organization appear. The results of this work intend to serve as a basis for the production of didactic materials by providing instruments for future masters students to employ in the production of introduction texts in both languages.

Esta dissertação incorpora e aproveita, em uma modalidade descritiva, os resultados de estudos comparados entre o espanhol e o português brasileiro realizados a partir de diversos referenciais teóricos que têm em comum focalizarem o funcionamento das línguas. Nossa pesquisa se fundamenta em estudos específicos sobre cada uma das duas línguas, geralmente de base gerativa e/ou funcionalista, mas que consideraremos apenas no seu aspecto descritivo, sem vincular nossa investigação a nenhum desses modelos explicativos. Para contextualizar a situação de contato e para definir metodologias e procedimentos, usaremos o referencial dos estudos da sociolinguística. Nossa pesquisa apresenta um estudo comparativo de produções textuais escritas por alunos bolivianos ou descendentes de primeira geração e por alunos brasileiros sem nenhuma ascendência hispânica. Trabalhamos com duas amostras: a primeira, de caráter provisório, contou com a participação de 40 informantes que produziram 40 textos. A segunda, de caráter definitivo, contou com a participação de 100 informantes que produziram 200 textos. Todos os alunos são estudantes da rede pública municipal de São Paulo e estão matriculados no ensino fundamental II ou médio. A pergunta da pesquisa buscou responder à seguinte indagação: em torno de quais construções que se encontram em variação no português brasileiro podemos localizar tendências que diferenciem, na escrita, os estudantes bolivianos ou filhos de bolivianos dos estudantes brasileiros que não têm contato com o espanhol no seu entorno familiar? Nas análises que realizamos aparecem como produtivas as construções pronominais em que o clítico não é objeto direto e nem indireto. Dentro dessas construções, duas modalidades apresentaram disparidades entre os dois grupos: (i) a diferença quantitativa na aparição do clítico se; e (ii) a diferença de frequência nas ocorrências para 4 verbos em seus usos pronominais, lembrar-se, perder-se, recordar-se e sentir-se. Indagamos também pelos usos dos verbos ter e haver com valor existencial, porém não encontramos diferenças significativas nas produções textuais dos dois grupos. / This dissertation incorporates and builds upon, in a descriptive mode, the results of comparative studies between Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese conducted from different theoretical references, all of which focus on how languages work. Our research is based on specific studies about each of these two languages, usually with a Generative and/or Functionalist basis, but which we will consider only in their descriptive aspect, without binding our research to any of these explanatory models. In order to contextualize the situation of contact and to define methodologies and procedures, we will use a set of references from sociolinguistic studies. Our research presents a comparative study of the written textual productions of Bolivian students and first-generation descendants of Bolivians and of Brazilian students without any Hispanic anscestry. We work with two samples: the first one, provisional, had the participation of 40 informants who produced 40 texts in total. The second one, definitive, had 100 informants who produced 200 texts in total. All the students come from São Paulo city public schools and are enrolled either in ensino fundamental II or ensino médio. The question asked during research has sought to answer this inquiry: around which constructions found in variation in Brazilian Portuguese can we find tendencies which differentiate, in writing, Bolivian students or children of Bolivian immigrants from Brazilian students who have no contact with the Spanish language at their homes? In the analyses we have conducted we have deemed significant the pronominal constructions in which the clitics are neither direct nor indirect objects. Among these constructions, two modalities have presented disparities between the two groups: (i) the quantitative difference in the occurrence of the clitic se; and (ii) the difference of the frequency of the occurrences for 4 verbs in their pronominal uses, lembrar-se, perder-se, recordar-se and sentir-se. We have also questioned the use of the verbs ter and haver with existential value. However, we have found no significant differences in the textual productions of either group.

As revistas de celebridades são fenômenos discursivos midiáticos que constroem realidades não ficcionais com traços de ficção, de alta relevância na contemporaneidade, pautada pelo binômio voyeurismo-exibicionismo. Tomamos como premissa que as revistas projetam muito mais do que banalidades de personagens famosos, pois estão atravessadas por lógicas globais filiadas à notoriedade como capital simbólico e estão marcadas por construtos culturais que, em nosso caso, associamos à dimensão histórico-social da Argentina e do Brasil. O presente estudo, portanto, trata da realidade construída e projetada como não ficção nas revistas Gente (editada e de circulação na Argentina) e Contigo! (editada e de circulação no Brasil), tendo, como tese principal, que nosso corpus, embora apresente um enquadramento transversal análogo, evidencia tendências dissonantes de idiossincrasias que emergem na materialidade do discurso. Para isso, a pesquisa desenvolve uma análise enunciativa-discursiva comparativa das revistas, no período de agosto de 2011 a maio de 2012. A análise do imbricado social no qual ocorrem as práticas sociais que permitem emergir as materialidades que analisamos, do desenvolvimento das mediações em Brasil e Argentina e das características materiais de nosso corpus pautam analogias possíveis entre as revistas e antecipam aspectos dissonantes em suas materialidades e nos efeitos de sentido projetados: a) as entrevistas são mais irreverentes e desembaraçadas na revista argentina do que na revista brasileira; b) o metadiscurso apresenta uma tensão explicitada na revista argentina, e uma harmonia aparente, na revista brasileira; c) o ethos discursivo e do ethos construído nos paratextos de personagens-celebridade midiáticos femininos mostram a projeção de um ethos vedetiano e erotizado, na revista argentina, e de um ethos dissimulado e glamorizado, na revista brasileira. / The celebrity magazines are a media discursive phenomenon that build non-fiction realities with fiction characteristics, and it is a kind of phenomenon that has high relevance in the contemporariness, lined by the voyeurism- exhibitionism binomial. We take as a premise that the magazines project much more than famous carachterss banalities, because they are crossed by global logics affiliated to notoriety as a symbolic capital and they are marked by cultural constructs that, in our case, are associated with the social-historical dimension of Argentina and Brasil. This study, therefore, is about the non-fiction reality constructed and projected in the maganizes Gente (edited and currently in circulation in Argentina) and Contigo! (edited and currently in circulation in Brasil). The central thesis underpinning this research is that our corpus, although displaying an analogue transversal framework, evidences idiosyncrasies with dissonant tendencies that emerge in the discourse materiality. Thus, the reasearch developed a comparative enunciative-discursive analysis of the magazines, from August 2011 to May 2012. The social interwoven analysis in which social practices occur that allow the emergence of the analyzed materialities, the mediations development in Brasil and Argentina analysis and the material characteristics of our corpus analisys show possible analogies between the magazines and antecipate dissonant aspects in their materialities and in the effects of the projected sense: a) the interviews are more irreverent and more unshamed in the Argentinean magazine than the Brazilian one; b) the metadiscourse presents an explicit tension in the Argentinean magazine, and an apparently harmony in the Brazilian one; c) the analysis of the media feminine celebrity carachters discoursive ethos and the constructed ethos in the paratexts shows the project of a vedetiano and erotic ethos in the Argentinean magazine, and a hidden and glamorous ethos in the Brazilian one.

The theme of this thesis is suicide mortality in its various aspects, seen from an international, European perspective. It questions the existence of social (structural) concomitants to suicide mortality and investigates attitudes towards and legislation concerning suicide, as well as some historical processes pertaining to their development. Paper 1 replicates an authoritative study of the "correlates of suicide" on a national level in European countries. It shows that the findings of this study do not hold 16 years later, and it presents some ideas as to why these changes have taken place. It is suggested that there are no simple social correlates to suicide on this level, and that suicide rates tend to vary according to, among other things, international cultural influences. Paper 2 investigates penal legislation relating to suicide in European countries. Three types of punishable action are found: 1) aiding suicide, 2) abetting suicide, and 3) driving somebody to suicide. A majority of European countries include some of these acts in their criminal laws. However, the laws vary very widely between countries, thereby constituting a notable exception to the common presumption of uniformity of law. The scope of the criminalization and the severity of the penalties for the crimes covary both with cultural attitudes towards suicide and with suicide rates. The results are interpreted as indicating the existence of a cultural-normative system, consisting of the cultural attitudes towards suicide, the laws regulating the actions relating to suicide and, perhaps, religion. It influences the occurrence of suicide, mainly by offering individuals cultural models of behavior. Paper 3 describes the process towards the decriminalization of suicide (in 1864) in Sweden, its causes and consequences. It is suggested that the law change took place because of a) the international ideological currents of the time (the heritage of the Enlightenment), b) the examples presented by other European countries, and c) the radical changes in people's behavior. The reform was long overdue, and thus did not have a direct effect on suicide mortality. The increase in Swedish suicide rates in the 19th century is seen as connected with certain aspects of the "modernization" process. Paper 4 addresses the prospects and problems connected with the ap-plication of Talcott Parsons's functionalist theory to suicide research, in particular when contrasting it with Durkheim's theory. It is found that the latter, despite its shortcomings, still dominates socially oriented suicide research. Parsons's theory is seen as implicating the cultural primacy of suicide mortality. Its general usability is, however, highly uncertain since many of its essential constituent parts are not well suited to the subject. A model for suicide rates, consisting of cultural (domestic and inter-national), political, social, diffusion and availability factors is presented. Taken together, the papers constitute a case for cultural (as opposed to socio-structural) research into suicide mortality. They question the repeated testing of structural variables in favor of creating cultural indicators. They suggest some new lines of research, and call for a consistently universal perspective on the problem of suicide and suicide mortality. / <p>Härtill fyra uppsatser.</p>

The chimpanzee is humankind’s closest living relative and the two species diverged ~6 million years ago. Comparative studies of the human and chimpanzee genomes and transcriptomes are of great interest to understand the molecular mechanisms of speciation and the development of species-specific traits. The aim of this thesis is to characterize differences between the two species with regard to their genome sequences and the resulting transcript profiles. The first two papers focus on indel divergence and in particular, indels causing premature termination codons (PTCs) in 8% of the chimpanzee genes. The density of PTC genes is correlated with both the distance to the telomere and the indel divergence. Many PTC genes have several associated transcripts and since not all are affected by the PTC we propose that PTCs may affect the pattern of expressed isoforms. In the third paper, we investigate the transcriptome divergence in cerebellum, heart and liver, using high-density exon arrays. The results show that gene expression differs more between tissues than between species. Approximately 15% of the genes are differentially expressed between species, and half of the genes show different splicing patterns. We identify 28 cassette exons which are only included in one of the species, often in a tissue-specific manner. In the fourth paper, we use massive parallel sequencing to study the chimpanzee transcriptome in frontal cortex and liver. We estimate gene expression and search for novel transcribed regions (TRs). The majority of TRs are located close to genes and possibly extend the annotations. A subset of TRs are not found in the human genome. The brain transcriptome differs substantially from that of the liver and we identify a subset of genes enriched with TRs in frontal cortex. In conclusion, this thesis provides evidence of extensive genomic and transcriptomic variability between human and chimpanzee. The findings provide a basis for further studies of the underlying differences affecting phenotypic divergence between human and chimpanzee.

The study examines the European coverage in four leading Nordic newspapers during two periods in 1993 and in 1996. During the first period, three countries were negotiating for membership in the European Union. During the second period, work on a new European Constitution was ongoing, to be negotiated by the Intergovernmental Conference at the end of the period. Two of the applicant countries, Finland and Sweden, were then members of the union since Jan 1, 1995. Voters in the third country, Norway, opted to stay outside the union. Norway is, however closely linked to the union by the previous EEA agreement. Finally, the fourth country, Denmark, had limited its longstanding membership in four important areas. Results of the main study in 1993 indicate a great difference in the degree of Europeanness of the coverage of European affairs, as indicated by the share of European issues, sources, players, institutions etc. The Danish paper, the Politiken, was on all counts genuinely European in its coverage. This could, to begin with, be understood in terms of a relational context - Denmark was a member of the European Community, the other countries were not. In 1996, as could be expected, the Norwegian paper, the Aftenposten, reduced its coverage of European affairs to about half the previous volume, the Finnish and Swedish papers, the Hufvudstadsbladet and the Dagens Nyheter, increased their volumes to new highs. The Danish paper maintained its previously comparatively high volume of European coverage, and was still distinctly more European in its outlook on transnational politics. This could be understood in terms of a new Maturity proposition - it may take a long time for the national media to come to terms with a new political environment. The study also puts forward the proposition that Danish political culture requires a different coverage of European affairs, and also requires an opportunity to discuss and evaluate European politics. On a theoretical level, the study supports the idea that national experience, historical and relational contexts influence media content. National agendas powerfully determine the orientation of transnational political communication . Three in-depth studies by and large confirm results from the content analysis. A separate exercise inspired by Grounded Theory gives rise to three theoretical concepts that seem to be fundamental dimensions of European political communication: Legitimacy (media coverage contributes to status conferral and encourages deliberation of cooperation as an idea), Participation (media coverage as expressions of intrinsical and instrumental motives for joining and taking responsibility towards European cooperation), and Mondialization/Universalism (media coverage of Europe's efforts in the global arena) / digitalisering@umu

University of Macau / Faculty of Law

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986. / Also availalbe in microfilm.