nÃo hà / Esta pesquisa apresenta uma anÃlise integrada das caracterÃsticas sintÃticas, semÃnticas e pragmÃticas do tradicionalmente chamado aposto de oraÃÃo. A base teÃrica assenta-se nos pressupostos da GramÃtica Discursivo-Funcional (GDF), desenvolvida por Hengeveld & Mackenzie (2008), cuja unidade bÃsica de anÃlise à o Ato Discursivo. Para a definiÃÃo e descriÃÃo das funÃÃes discursivas da aposiÃÃo encapsuladora, tomamos como aporte os trabalhos de Quirk et al (1985), Meyer (1992), Nogueira (1999, 2012), Decat (2010) e Hannay; Keizer (2005). Metodologicamente, a pesquisa apresenta um percurso de descriÃÃo que parte das caracterÃsticas formais, anÃlise de frequÃncia com o uso do programa SPSS para um desenho do comportamento prototÃpico dessa estrutura e, por fim, apresenta uma anÃlise qualitativa das funÃÃes discursivas das estruturas em questÃo, baseada em um corpus composto de 108 ocorrÃncias advindas de artigos de opiniÃo publicados na Folha de S. Paulo, entre os anos de 2006 a 2010. Na anÃlise, optamos por descrever formalmente a aposiÃÃo encapsuladora como as relativas sem cabeÃa ou nÃo nucleadas, conforme proposto pela GDF, e determinar o carÃter atributivo dessa estrutura. A estrutura mais frequente à aquela composta de pronome demonstrativo + oraÃÃo adjetiva restritiva, encapsulando Estado-de-Coisas. As funÃÃes discursivas assumidas por essas estruturas foram definidas com base na natureza da informaÃÃo que elas acrescentam ao fluxo textual. Assim, definimos as seguintes funÃÃes bÃsicas: AvaliaÃÃo, ExplicaÃÃo, Desdobramento, ConstataÃÃo/RatificaÃÃo, ConclusÃo. / This research presents an integrated analysis of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the tradition ally called âapposition clauseâ. The theory is based on the assumptions of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), developed by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008), that basic unit of analysis is the Discourse Act. For the definition and description of the discourse functions of the encapsulated apposition, we take as support the researches of Quirk et al (1985), Meyer (1992), Nogueira (1999, 2012), Decat (2010) e Hannay; Keizer (2005). Methodologically, the research presents a description course that starts from the formal characteristics, frequency analysis with the use of the SPSS program for a design of the prototypical behavior of this structure and, finally, presents a qualitative analysis of the discourse functions of the structures in question based on a corpus composed by 108 occurrences from articles of opinion published in Folha de SÃo Paulo between 2006 to 2010. In the analysis, we chose to describe the encapsulated apposition as the relative headless or non - nucleated such as proposed by FDG and to determine the attributive feature of this structure. The most frequent structure is composed of demonstrative pronouns + restrictive adjective clause, encapsulating State â of - assairs. The discourse functions assumed by these structures were defined based on the na ture of the information they add to the textual flow. Thus, we define the following basic functions: Evaluation, Explanation, Developing, Evidencing / Confirming , Conclusion.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lindinalva Zagoto Fernandes.pdf: 1290924 bytes, checksum: c9b0310dc577033f94a302cd943527c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Disagreement in oral interaction has been studied by researchers from several fields of knowledge and in different contexts. Some investigate its occurrence in casual conversation, others are concerned about disagreement in institutional talk. In Brazil, the existing studies are restricted to analyses of the organizational structure of disagreement and its position in the conversation. However, to my knowledege, except for Pertaki´s research (2005), no other proposal has dealt with examining the role played by discourse disagreement within communicative purpose. The disagreement study in daily conversations has been associated with the conversation analysis research (POMERANTZ 1984), as well as the Politeness Theory (BROWN and LEVINSON 1987). Both approaches show differences between them, but there are convergent points between them: both accept the fact that conversational exchanges strive to maintain and increase the complicity among the participants involved. However, this objective seems to happen in the conversation-among-peers data, but not in other contexts. On the other hand, the extent of face threat or dispreference involved therein is, indubitably, connected to the demands of the situational and cultural contexts of the speech event in which the act occurs (BLUM-KULKA 1997; REES-MILLER 2000). As a contribution to this study, this research examines 1043 conversational interlocutions that occurred in a meeting containing eight members of a real estate brokerage firm, in order to analyze the discourse function of the disagreement in the context of power institutionally. The study has the theoretical-methodological and interdisciplinary support formed by Conversation Analysis assumptions, Theory of Politeness (BROWN; LEVINSON, 1987), Critical Linguistics, (FOWLER et al., 1979) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1994; 2004). The analyses show complex sequences of disagreement made implicitly and explicitly, according to the legitimization of professional identity; the defense of personal interests and dissatisfaction with the working philosophy of the company / O desacordo na interação oral tem sido objeto de estudo de pesquisadores de várias áreas do conhecimento e em diferentes contextos. Alguns investigam sua ocorrência na conversa casual; outros se preocupam com o desacordo na conversa institucional. No Brasil, os trabalhos existentes se restringem a análises da estrutura organizacional do desacordo e sua posição na conversa. Porém, pelo que nos consta, a não ser o trabalho de Petraki (2005), nenhuma proposta tem se preocupado em examinar a função discursiva desempenhada pelo desacordo no propósito comunicativo. O estudo do desacordo tem sido associado ao trabalho de Análise da Conversa (POMERANTZ 1984), bem como à Teoria da Polidez (BROWN e LEVINSON 1987). As duas abordagens apresentam diferenças entre si, mas há pontos de convergência entre elas: ambas aceitam o fato de que as trocas conversacionais esforçam-se para manter e aumentar a cumplicidade entre os participantes envolvidos. Porém, essa meta parece acontecer nos dados na conversa entre íntimos, mas não em outros contextos. Por outro lado, o grau de ameaça-a-face ou de despreferência aí envolvidos está, de modo inegável, ligado às exigências do contexto situacional e cultural do evento da fala em que o ato ocorre (BLUM-KULKA 1997; REES-MILLER 2000). Como forma de contribuir para esse estudo, esta pesquisa examina 1043 interlocuções conversacionais, ocorridas em uma reunião de trabalho entre oito membros de uma empresa de corretagem de imóveis, a fim de analisar a função discursiva do desacordo, num contexto de poder atribuído institucionalmente. O estudo tem o suporte teórico-metodológico interdisciplinar formado pelos pressupostos da Análise da Conversa; da Teoria da Polidez (BROWN; LEVINSON, 1987); da Linguística Crítica (FOWLER et al., 1979); e da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY, 1994; 2004). As análises mostram sequências complexas de desacordo, realizadas de forma explícita e implícita, em função da legitimação de identidade profissional; da defesa de interesses pessoais; e da insatisfação com a filosofia de trabalho da empresa

為了呼應將人際層面融入寫作教學的趨勢，本論文將透過分析人稱代名詞（一種明顯的人際關係標記)在議論文中的使用功能來探討不同程度的台灣大學生如何使用人稱代名詞建構作者與讀者之間的關係。本研究的第一部份著重在七十六篇文章的文本分析。首先，這些文章按照評分結果將其分成高、中、低三組，然後分析人稱代名詞最常出現的搭配語言形式，並歸納出不同人稱代名詞的篇章功能。第二部份則是分析學生問卷及訪談學生，藉以作進一步的闡述。問卷的目的在找出學生對議論文寫作的看法，而訪談學生則是想找出使用不同人稱代名詞的原因。本研究發現不同程度的三組學生在人稱代名詞的整體使用數量、種類、及頻率分配上都有不同，程度高的一組明顯少於中間程度及較低組。同時，結果也顯示這些學生會搭配不同的語言形式（例如動詞、助動詞、加強標記等）來行使不同的篇章功能，而且不同程度的學生在功能運用上也會有所差異。整體而言，低組同學呈現較多的自我投射，中間組同學比較注重與讀者和其他外人的關係，而高組同學在呈現觀點時較為客觀。在選擇人稱代名詞時，學生會從自己本身、讀者、文章寫作等三方面的相互關係作出考量，決定採取主觀或客觀的觀點、表達權威或謙卑的態度、顯示親近或疏離的關係、使用直接或間接的策略。大致上來說，這些學生使用較多的人性訴求來凝聚跟讀者之間的關係，同時也強化自己論點的力道。這樣的策略充分反映出台灣文化中的人道主義和集體主義。本研究發現學生在議論文寫作中會以功能和人際關係為導向來選擇和使用人稱代名詞。 / In response to the call for the incorporation of interpersonal dimension into the writing pedagogy, this study provides a functional analysis of personal pronouns—an explicit interpersonal marker—used in argumentative texts by Taiwanese college students. The purpose is to see how students of different proficiency levels construct the writer-reader relationship through personal pronouns during the composition. The first part of the study centers on the analysis of 76 learner essays. They are first rated and sorted into three groups of different quality—High, Mid, and Low. Later, the linguistic forms associated with personal pronouns are examined, and the discourse functions personal pronouns fulfill in contexts are also identified. The results of the text analysis are further supplemented by the post-writing questionnaires and the oral interviews on students to obtain more in-depth discovery and interpretation. While the questionnaire aims to reveal how the students perceive argumentative writing, the interview intends to find out the reasons for their choices of personal pronouns. The results have shown that the use of personal pronouns in the three groups differs in quantity, type and distribution. The High group writers use significantly fewer pronouns than the other two. Moreover, the students use personal pronouns with salient accompanying linguistic forms (e.g. verbs, modals, emphatic markers) to perform various discourse functions, and students of different levels also vary in maneuvering the functions. Overall, the Low group writers tend to be more self-involved, and the Mid group writers are more likely to include in-group and out-group members in discourse. The High group writers, however, present their arguments more objectively. In selecting personal pronouns, the students usually take account of the interrelationship among the writer, the reader and the text, on whose basis the alternatives between subjectivity and objectivity, authority and modesty, intimacy and detachment, or directness and indirectness are weighed. In general, the students use more personal appeals to achieve mutual solidarity with the reader and to intensify their convictions as well, which reflects humaneness and collectivism that have been highly valued in Taiwanese culture. The study has found that the students' strategic choices of personal pronouns in argumentative writing are usually functionally and interpersonally-oriented.

<p>The present study deals with the use of two Irish verb constructions, the autonomous (e.g. <i>cuireadh litreacha chun bealaigh</i>, ‘letters were dispatched’)<i> </i>and the passive progressive (e.g. <i>bhí m’athair á leigheas acu</i>, ‘my father was being cured by them’), in a corpus of 20th-century texts. From this corpus, 2,956 instances of the autonomous and 467 instances of the passive progressive were extracted and included in the analysis. Dialectal variation concerning the use of these two constructions is also surveyed.</p><p>The study explores and compares the use of the autonomous and the passive progressive. The main aim of the study is to investigate the two constructions with regard to their textual functions. The features studied relate to verb and clause type, as well as the measuring of topicality of patients, implicit agents, and – in the passive progressive only – overt agents. </p><p>The autonomous tends to be used when the patient is topical, or central, in the text. The passive progressive, on the other hand, is mainly used with an overt agent that is considerably more topical than the patient. In agent-less passive progressives, patients and implicit agents are equally low in topicality. The autonomous occurs about equally often in main and subclauses, while the passive progressive is used primarily in subclauses, mainly non-finite ones. This difference is connected to the finding that 24% of the clauses containing the autonomous denote events as part of a sequentially ordered chain of events, compared to 4% of those containing the passive progressive.</p><p>The most salient dialectal variation concerns the frequency of the passive progressive: 73% of the instances of the passive progressive in the database occur in the Munster texts, compared to 22% in Connacht 5% in Ulster. The autonomous, in contrast, is fairly evenly distributed across the dialects.</p>

The present study deals with the use of two Irish verb constructions, the autonomous (e.g. cuireadh litreacha chun bealaigh, ‘letters were dispatched’) and the passive progressive (e.g. bhí m’athair á leigheas acu, ‘my father was being cured by them’), in a corpus of 20th-century texts. From this corpus, 2,956 instances of the autonomous and 467 instances of the passive progressive were extracted and included in the analysis. Dialectal variation concerning the use of these two constructions is also surveyed. The study explores and compares the use of the autonomous and the passive progressive. The main aim of the study is to investigate the two constructions with regard to their textual functions. The features studied relate to verb and clause type, as well as the measuring of topicality of patients, implicit agents, and – in the passive progressive only – overt agents. The autonomous tends to be used when the patient is topical, or central, in the text. The passive progressive, on the other hand, is mainly used with an overt agent that is considerably more topical than the patient. In agent-less passive progressives, patients and implicit agents are equally low in topicality. The autonomous occurs about equally often in main and subclauses, while the passive progressive is used primarily in subclauses, mainly non-finite ones. This difference is connected to the finding that 24% of the clauses containing the autonomous denote events as part of a sequentially ordered chain of events, compared to 4% of those containing the passive progressive. The most salient dialectal variation concerns the frequency of the passive progressive: 73% of the instances of the passive progressive in the database occur in the Munster texts, compared to 22% in Connacht 5% in Ulster. The autonomous, in contrast, is fairly evenly distributed across the dialects.

The aim of this dissertation is to chart the development of interrogative syntax among Finnish-speaking children between the ages of 1 to 4 years living in Sweden. The material consists of language samples taken from eleven Sweden-Finnish children with Finnish as their first language. The data from the corpus have been compared with acquisition studies of Finnish-speaking children in Finland, with material from an adult-language corpus and with studies of children speaking other languages than Finnish. The first questions appearing in the corpus are wh-questions, on average at the age of 1.9 and one month earlier than yes/no-questions. Both wh-questions and yes/no-questions are produced by all children in the corpus, whereas disjunctive questions are used by only one child. Wh-questions comprise approximately two thirds of the interrogatives and yes/no-questions a third; only one disjunctive question is used. The older the child, the greater the proportion of yes/no-questions. The earliest wh-question words are tnikä 'what' nom. sg., missä 'where' and mita 'what' part, sg., used by one-year-olds. Kuka 'who' nom. sg., mihin 'where to' and miten 'how' all appear before the age of 2.6, and miksi 'why1, mista 'where from' and minkä 'what* acc. 1 sg. start being used before the age of three. The use of milloin 'when', kenen 'whose', minkä varinen 'of what color' and mitkä 'what' nom. pl. commences at the age of three. Other question words and question word forms are produced by a few children. Wh-interrogative clauses in this study have been divided into ellipses, on-clauses, V-clauses and Adnom-clauses. The ellipses and cm-clauses are acquired on average at the age of 1.9, V-clauses at 1.11 and Adnom-clauses at 2.3. The question words are used correctly for the most part, with the same references as in adult speech. Semantic misuse of mikä 'what' was detected in 2 % of the pronoun's occurrences; kuka 'who' is misused relatively often, 38 % of the time. The different case forms of the interrogative pronouns and adjectives are on the whole used correctly. One pronoun form susceptible to misuse is nom. sg. mikä 'what', often erroneously produced instead of some other case form. The interrogative adverbs are used according to adult norms almost without exception. The earliest yes/no-questions in the corpus are -kO-questions, starting on average at age 1.10; the use of -hAn-questions begins at age 2.5. Other yes/no-questions appear at a much later date. The first -kO-questions are neutral -kO-questions. Focused -kO-questions are acquired somewhat later on. The neutral -kO-questions have been divided into onko 'Is it?'-questions, Simple V+kO-questions, Aux+kO-questions and Neg+kO+V-questions; the various types of questions are acquired in that order. The interrogative clauses in the corpus have been categorized as information-eliciting questions, directive questions, conversational questions and expressive questions; their acquisition follows ibis order. / digitalisering@umu

The present study focuses on functions and English translation counterparts of the Czech lexeme aby. It is a relatively frequent word in the Czech language which is described as a subordinating conjunction expressing purpose, effect, manner, and also as a particle with a number of discourse functions. The current description, however, does not seem complete and this study therefore aims to analyse its use in more detail. Lexicographic and grammatical sources served as a basis for the classification of aby as a conjunction and as a particle. After an analysis of 200 examples it soon became evident that this listing is not complete and the use of aby is more complex than originally expected. The present paper thus treats all the functions of aby and also exemplifies each of them using extracted corpus data. In the study, aby in its conjunction and particle use is firstly treated separately to analyse each of them in more depth. This analysis, consequently, provides basis to point out their common features as well as their differences. The English translational counterparts are another point of interest in the study, in particular, their adequacy, regularity, and lexicalization.