In this dissertation, I propose a reductive account of causation. This account may be stated as follows: Causation: c is a cause of e within a possibility horizon ℓ if a) c is process-connected to e, and b) e security-depends on c within ℓ. More precisely, my suggestion is that there are two kinds of causal relata: instantaneous events (defined in Chapter 4) and possibility horizons (defined in Chapter 5). Causation is a ternary relation between two actual instantaneous events - the cause c and the effect e - and a possibility horizon ℓ. I argue that causation has a dual nature: on the one hand, a cause must be connected to its effect via a genuine process; on the other hand, a cause must make a difference to its effect. The first condition - namely, the condition of process-connection (defined in Chapter 6) - captures the sense in which a cause must be connected to its effect via a genuine process. This condition allows my account to separate causation from mere correlation, distinguish genuine causes from preempted backups, and capture how a cause must be at the right level of detail relative to its effect (Chapter 7). The second condition - namely, the condition of security-dependence (defined in Chapter 8) - captures the sense in which a cause must make a difference to its effect. This condition allows my account to yield intuitively correct verdicts on the counterexamples to the transitivity and intrinsicness of causation, resolve the problem of profligate omissions, accommodate structurally isomorphic but causally different cases, and handle contrastive causal claims (Chapter 9 and 10). Finally, my proposed account of causation logically entails restricted versions of three important principles of causal reasoning concerning the sufficiency of counterfactual dependence for causation, and the transitivity and intrinsicness of causation (Chapter 11).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nanci de Souza Vallezi.pdf: 820933 bytes, checksum: 6e7398cf7831b92bb493a653143cb846 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-01-20 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The objective of this research is to evaluate the language of threat in the O Ateneu, by Raul Pompéia , from the standpoint of the Systemic Functional Grammar and its ramifications, covering Linguistics Criticism and Appraisal . The title focuses on the power relationship of Aristarco, representing the school, concerning the new student Sérgio. As I started studying some theoretical-methodology proposals of Systemic Functional Grammar, arose the curiosity to examine in the title which I already had examined from the literature point of view in my Coursework lexico-grammatical choices made by the author to emphasize the threat that involves the environment of the O Ateneu. The threat, socially defined as having strong ideological links with assessments of violence and control by the threatening, have, until recently, received little attention in academic circles. The theory states that, while there are violent ways of command linked to high levels of threat, mitigation and implicit forms are disguised or masked completely, creating an incomplete understanding of the genre. The critical analysis, relies on Systemic Functional Grammar, focusing on the system of Transitivity and Appraisal. The research aims to answer the questions: (a) which lexical- grammatical choices are made at the O Ateneu, to express a threat? (b) How can the Transitivity contribute to this expression? (c) How can the Appraisal contribute to this expression? The results show that the threat in O Ateneu, in general, happens implicitly, it means by attitude tokens, and they are perceptible to the reader due to its fit, which gives coherence to the text, and by performing the prosody throughout the narrative. In this process, Pompéia resorts to irony, that, according to critical discourse analysis, encourages readers to become aware and evaluate what would otherwise be accepted without question / O objetivo desta pesquisa é examinar a linguagem da ameaça, na obra O Ateneu, de Raul Pompéia, sob o enfoque da Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional e suas ramificações, que abrangem a Linguística Crítica e a Avaliatividade. A obra enfoca a relação de poder de Aristarco, representando a escola, em relação ao aluno novato, Sérgio. Ao entrar em contato com algumas propostas teórico-metodológicas da Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional, surgiu-me a curiosidade de examinar na obra - que já analisara do ponto de vista da literatura no meu trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - as escolhas léxico-gramaticais feitas pelo autor para imprimir o cunho da ameaça que envolve o ambiente de O Ateneu. A ameaça, sociamente definida como tendo fortes elos ideológicos com avaliações de violência e controle por parte do ameaçador, têm, até recentemente, recebido pouca atenção nos meios acadêmicos. A teoria afirma que, enquanto se têm ligado formas violentas de comando a altos níveis de ameaça, as formas mitigadoras e implícitas são disfarçadas ou completamente mascaradas, criando uma compreensão incompleta do gênero. A análise de cunho crítico, apoia-se na Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional, enfocando o sistema da Transitividade e da Avaliatividade. A pesquisa visa a responder às perguntas: (a) Que escolhas léxico-gramaticais são feitas em O Ateneu, para expressar uma ameaça? (b) De que modo pode a Transitividade contribuir nessa expressão? (c) De que modo pode a Avaliatividade contribuir nessa expressão? Os resultados mostram que a ameaça em O Ateneu acontece, em geral, de maneira implícita, ou seja, por tokens de Atitude, e são perceptíveis ao leitor devido ao seu enquadre, que atribui coerência ao texto, e por meio da realização prosódica construída ao longo da narrativa. Nesse processo, Pompéia recorre à ironia, que, segundo a análise do discurso crítica, encoraja os leitores a se conscientizarem e avaliarem o que seria, de outro modo, aceito sem questionamento

<p>This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two testimonies. The Human Rights Violations (HRV) hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) allowed testifiers to tell stories of their experiences during apartheid. The selected testimonies refer to the events that led up to the arrest and eventual torture of Faried Muhammad Ferhelst, as told by himself and his mother, Minnie Louisa Ferhelst. Theframeworks used to analyse the testimonies are drawn from the transitivity and genre theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics. A clausal analysis of the transitivity patterns is used to compare the ways in which the testifiers construct their identities and roles when recounting their stories. The transitivity analysis of both testimonies shows that both Mrs Ferhelst and Faried Ferhelst construe themselves as the Affected participant through Material, Mental and Verbal clauses, and construe the police as the Causers, mostly through Material clauses. A genre analysis revealed that both testimonies took the form of narratives, in particular the Recount, a typical genre for relating narratives of personal experience. This research project also explores how the original Afrikaans versions of the testimonies differ from the translated English versions, available online on the TRC website. The Afrikaans versions were transcribed by the researcher from&nbsp / audio-visual records. A transitivity analysis reveals that the interpretation of the Afrikaans testimonies is fairly accurate, with a minimum loss of meaning. Thus in the case of these testimonies, the&nbsp / actual online record in English is an accurate reflection of their stories.</p>

Kurį laiką buvo manoma, kad vaikai, kurie dar neperėjo priešoperacinės stadijos nemoka daryti tranzityvumo santykio išvadų apie kiekybę (Pears, Bryant, 1992). Pasak Schnall ir Gattis (1998), daugelis tyrinėtojų bando atsakyti į klausimą, iki kokio laipsnio ir nuo kokio amžiaus vaikai gali išspręsti tranzityvumo santykio vertinimo užduotis. Nors Piaget ir kiti (Inhelder ir Piaget, 1958; cit. pagal Schnall, Gattis, 1998) manė, kad vaikai tik apie 7-8 metus ir vyresni geba teisingai išspręsti tranzityvumo vertinimo užduotis, jaunesni vaikai (Bryant ir Trabasso, 1971; Riley ir Trabasso, 1974) (cit. pagal Schnall, Gattis, 1998) taip pat geba tranzityviai vertinti pasitreniravus. Bryant ir Trabasso (1971; cit. pagal Schnall, Gattis, 1998) padarė išvadą, kad tranzityvumo vertinimo u���duočių neišsprendimas gali būti greičiau dėl darbinės atminties ribotumo nei dėl kognityvinių trūkumų. Tyrimo objektas – 4-6 metų vaikų tranzityvumo supratimas. Tyrimo tikslas – charakterizuoti 4-6 metų vaikų tranzityvumo santykio supratimo ypatumus. Siekiant šio tikslo, išsikelti šie uždaviniai: 1. Sudaryti ir pateikti 4-6 metų am����iaus vaikams tris užduotis, kurios tiria tranzityvumo santykio supratimą. 2. Nustatyti, ar 4-6 metų vaikai geba tranzityviai samprotauti. 3. Palyginti užduotis pagal tiesioginius atsakymus. 4. Palyginti užduotis pagal kokybinius atsakymus. 5. Palyginti berniukų ir mergaičių gebėjimą tranzityviai samprotauti. Prieš atliekant tyrimą buvo išsikeltos tokios hipotezės: 1. 4-6... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / It was believe that children which didn‘t pass preoperational stage, can‘t to do transitivity conclusions about quantity (Pears, Bryant, 1992). According Schnall and Gattis (1998), many researchers trying ask to question by what degree and from what age children are able to solve transitivity interference tasks. Though Piaget and others (Inhelder ir Piaget, 1958; cit. pagal Schnall, Gattis, 1998) thought that children only about 7-8 years and older can to solve transitivity interference tasks right, younger children (Bryant ir Trabasso, 1971; Riley ir Trabasso, 1974; by Schnall, Gattis, 1998) also are able to solve transitivity interference tasks if they are trained. Bryant and Trabasso (1971; by Schnall, Gattis, 1998) made conclusion that wrong solving of transitivity interference tasks can be rather for working memory limitation nor cognitive deficits. Object of the Study – understanding transitivity in 4-6 years old children. The aim of the study was to characterize understanding transitivity in 4-6 years old children. Goals of the study: 1. Organize and represent for 4-6 years old children three tasks which research inderstanding transitivity. 2. Find, are 4-6 years old children able to reason transitively. 3. Compare tasks by direct answers. 4. Compare tasks by qualitative ansvers. 5. Compare ability to reason transitively in boys and girls. Hyphotesis: 1. 4-6 years old children are able to reason transitively. 2. Children did more mistakes in tasks which were hard to... [to full text]

<p>This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two testimonies. The Human Rights Violations (HRV) hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) allowed testifiers to tell stories of their experiences during apartheid. The selected testimonies refer to the events that led up to the arrest and eventual torture of Faried Muhammad Ferhelst, as told by himself and his mother, Minnie Louisa Ferhelst. Theframeworks used to analyse the testimonies are drawn from the transitivity and genre theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics. A clausal analysis of the transitivity patterns is used to compare the ways in which the testifiers construct their identities and roles when recounting their stories. The transitivity analysis of both testimonies shows that both Mrs Ferhelst and Faried Ferhelst construe themselves as the Affected participant through Material, Mental and Verbal clauses, and construe the police as the Causers, mostly through Material clauses. A genre analysis revealed that both testimonies took the form of narratives, in particular the Recount, a typical genre for relating narratives of personal experience. This research project also explores how the original Afrikaans versions of the testimonies differ from the translated English versions, available online on the TRC website. The Afrikaans versions were transcribed by the researcher from&nbsp / audio-visual records. A transitivity analysis reveals that the interpretation of the Afrikaans testimonies is fairly accurate, with a minimum loss of meaning. Thus in the case of these testimonies, the&nbsp / actual online record in English is an accurate reflection of their stories.</p>

Dans le cadre des approches constructionistes, cette thèse étudie les verbes labiles de l’anglais, qui peuvent manifester des configurations syntaxiques variées sans changer de forme. L’étude de la complémentation de ces verbes montre que leur catégorisation en familles sémantiques est pertinente mais pas suffisante pour expliquer leur comportement. La thèse défend une approche syncrétique de la complémentation du verbe qui rend compte de son importante productivité et de ses limites parfois arbitraires. Une analyse montre que les verbes ont tous une configuration syntaxique par défaut, qui n’est pas signifiante et qui permet simplement au verbe d’exprimer ses arguments de façon non marquée, en accord avec certains principes de cohérence conceptuelle. À l’inverse, lorsque la complémentation du verbe a un apport sémantique identifiable, l’existence de schémas de complémentation pleinement signifiants est postulée. Il s’agit d’ensembles de compléments dont le sens est distinct de celui du verbe auquel ils sont associés et se retrouve de façon régulière avec des verbes de catégories diverses. Il est démontré que les schémas de complémentation doivent être considérés comme des unités linguistiques de plein droit de l’anglais. Cela implique qu’en synchronie, ces schémas sont emmagasinés par les locuteurs plutôt que le résultat d’un processus d’analogie avec des constructions existantes. Leur statut d’unité linguistique permet d’étudier leur sémantisme de la même façon que des unités lexicales plus classiques. S’ils sont en majorité polysémiques, certains schémas ont des emplois difficiles à relier sémantiquement et doivent donc être considérés comme des homonymes. / Within a constructionist framework, this thesis studies English labile verbs, which can enter into various syntactic configurations without changing form. A study of their complementation shows that categorizing them into semantic families is relevant but not sufficient to explain their behavior. The thesis defends a syncretic approach to verb complementation to that accounts for its important productivity and its sometimes arbitrary limits. It is shown that all verbs have a default syntactic configuration, which is not meaningful and which simply allows the verb to express its arguments in an unmarked way, in accordance with certain principles of conceptual coherence. Conversely, when the complementation of the verb has an identifiable semantic contribution, the existence of fully meaningful patterns of complementation is posited. These are defined as sets of complements, whose meaning is distinct from that of the verb with which they are associated and is found regularly with verbs of diverse categories. It is shown that patterns of complementation should be considered fully-fledged English linguistic units. This implies that synchronically, these patterns are mentally stored by speakers rather than the result of a process of analogy with existing constructions. Their status as linguistic units makes it possible to study their meaning in the same way as more classical lexical units. Although most of them are polysemic, some patterns of complementation exhibit uses that are difficult to link semantically and must therefore be viewed as homonyms.

This work believes that language, when it is put in action, allows as the expression of someone world s experiences, as the building of representations of the same subject and others. Since we understand that discursive practices are able to project identities, we chose to investigate versions of reality expressed in opinion s article from the journalist Diogo Mainardi when he represents, via discourse, president Lula, Workers Party, and Lula s government. We intend, in fact, to answer the following question: how the journalist Diogo Mainardi realizes linguistically the president Lula s representation, as well as the representation of his party and his government? The answer to this central question passes also through the author ethos constitution. Then, we examined, in this study, different linguistic ways which Mainardi uses in order to build as an image of himself, as an image of the biggest figure of brazilian s politics hierarchy. To do this, we based our work on appraisal theory, from Martin & White (2005), on social actor representation s theory proposed by van Leeuwen (1997), and on transitivity system by Halliday & Matthiessen (2004). The ethos constitution was investigated based on Amossy s researches (2005). Our results pointed out negative judgments of Mainardi concerning the actors we discussed. We detected predominance of capacity social esteem judgments, in representations of Lula, and predominance of property social sanction judgments, in people who belongs to his government. So, we conclude that the pejorative way Mainardi represents Lula is just a personal implication and, because of it, should not be considered in terms of evaluation of president s behavior, either in terms of building his identity. / Este estudo parte do pressuposto de que a linguagem, quando posta em ação, propicia não só a expressão das experiências de mundo de um sujeito, mas também a construção de representações desse mesmo sujeito e de outros. Uma vez que entendemos que práticas discursivas são capazes de projetar identidades, optamos por investigar a elaboração de versões da realidade expressas no discurso de artigos de opinião do jornalista Diogo Mainardi quando este representa o presidente Lula, o Partido dos Trabalhadores e o governo Lula. Buscamos, na verdade, responder à seguinte pergunta: como o jornalista Diogo Mainardi realiza linguisticamente a representação do ator social Lula, de seu partido e governo? A resposta a esta questão básica passa também pela constituição do ethos discursivo do autor. Assim, examinamos, neste trabalho, as diversas operações lingüísticas que Mainardi mobilizou para construir a imagem de si próprio e do representante maior da hierarquia política brasileira. Usamos, como pressupostos teóricos, a teoria da Avaliatividade de Martin e White (2005), a teoria de representação dos atores sociais proposta por van Leeuwen (1997) e o sistema de transitividade com base em Halliday & Matthiessen (2004). O processo de construção do ethos foi investigado através de pesquisas apresentadas por Amossy (2005). Os resultados da análise mostraram posicionamento e julgamento negativos de Mainardi em relação aos atores de quem buscamos a representação. Detectamos a predominância de julgamentos de estima social por capacidade, nas representações do presidente Lula, e a predominância de julgamentos de sanção social por propriedade nas representações daqueles que fazem parte de seu governo. Concluímos, com isso, que a maneira pejorativa com que Mainardi representa Lula não passa de implicância pessoal e, que, portanto, não devem ser relevadas em termos de avaliação da conduta do presidente, e tampouco da construção de sua identidade.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-07-20T11:14:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1246465 bytes, checksum: 64619ce538bea8f6beb75ff0ca102d86 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-20T11:14:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1246465 bytes, checksum: 64619ce538bea8f6beb75ff0ca102d86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-19 / This research has the objective of reflecting on the characterization of the perfective and imperfective aspects to support a scale analysis of the criterion of transitivity aspect that faces the binary perspective of Hopper and Thompson (1980). It is a bibliographic research, with theoretical research, associated to the analysis of examples. The present exemplification is constituted, mainly, of the dissertation of Vanderlei (2014), entitled “Oral Transitivity: reflections on the textual-discursive function of the pronouns o(s), a(s), me, te”, which were the comparative base for us between the scale and binary proposal of analysis of the aspect. We put as the issue of the research the fact that the perfective and imperfective aspects generally being defined by binary oppositions, when it can present a group of more or less obvious traces. We hypothesize that the criterion aspect must be analysed according to the acting of a group of characterizing notions, indicating traces of perfectivity or imperfectivity. The analysis of the exemplification highlighted revealed that the most perfective actions and, therefore, more transitive, are characterized by the presence of notions of punctuality, completion and finishing and by the lack of length, while the most imperfective actions, less transitive, are characterized by the presence of length and completion and the lack of punctuality and finishing. We conclude that there is the possibility modification of binary results from a scale analysis of the criterion of transitivity aspect, signalizing the complementary validity of this last proposal as a form of approximating the study of the functionalist criterion of the particularities of the verbal category in Brazilian Portuguese. / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo refletir sobre a caracterização dos aspectos perfectivo e imperfectivo para fundamentar uma análise escalar do critério de transitividade aspecto diante da perspectiva binária de Hopper e Thompson (1980). Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, com motivação teórica, associada à análise de exemplos. A exemplificação presente é constituída, principalmente, pela dissertação de Vanderlei (2014), intitulada “Transitividade oracional: reflexões sobre a função textual-discursiva dos pronomes o(s), a(s), me, te”, que nos serviu de base comparativa entre as propostas escalar e binária de análise do aspecto. Colocamos como problemática da pesquisa o fato de os aspectos perfectivo e imperfectivo serem em geral definidos por oposições binárias, quando podem apresentar um conjunto de traços mais ou menos patentes. Hipotetizamos que o critério aspecto deva ser analisado segundo a atuação de um conjunto de noções caracterizadoras, indicativas de traços de perfectividade ou imperfectividade. A análise da exemplificação destacada revelou que as ações mais perfectivas e, portanto, mais transitivas, são caracterizadas pela presença das noções de pontualidade, completamento e acabamento e pela ausência de duração, enquanto as ações mais imperfectivas, menos transitivas, são caracterizadas pela presença de duração e completamento e a ausência de pontualidade e acabamento. Conclui-se a existência da possibilidade de modificações de resultados binários a partir de uma análise escalar do critério de transitividade aspecto, sinalizando a validade complementar desta última proposta como forma de aproximar o estudo do critério funcionalista das particularidades da categoria verbal no português brasileiro.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:42:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 897261 bytes, checksum: 5d231c662d76986f0ecf9d3f683b3a58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-07-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Situated in the field of Applied Linguistics, the present study addresses the representations, construction of meaning, and reflective practice of a public school teacher of English in northeastern Brazil. The teacher documents her academic and professional trajectory through a reflective journal (BAILEY, 1990; PEYTON, 1990; MACHADO, 1998, 2007; ZABALZA, 2004; LIBERALI, 1999; BURTON, 2005, and REICHMANN, 2007). The journal is a way to unveil the teacher´s successes, failures, sensations, and perceptions. In this case study, fourteen narratives in the reflective journal constitute the corpus; voice and ´pedagogical truths´ (MOITA LOPES, 2004) surface in these teacher narratives. In this study, I defend the idea that language is used to construe and maintain interpersonal relations, to represent and interpret the world of others and our own, to represent knowledge and to construct meaning (HALLIDAY e MATTHIESSEN, 2004). I also argue that a crucial moment in teacher development is critical reflection on past or current practice, so as to improve future practice (FREIRE, 1996). Based on these assumptions, the main objective of this piece of research is to investigate representations of teacher experience and construction of meaning through written narratives in the journal. The three specific objectives are the following: to describe and to interpret lexico-grammatical choices in selected fragments, from the perspective of the transitivity system (HALLIDAY, 1994); to investigate meaning construction in relation to the academicprofessional context construed in teacher narratives, through other significant linguistic choices; and to examine reflective practice in the journal, focusing on the form of action reconstruction (SMYTH, 1992). Linguistic analysis reveals that teacher discourse represents, reflects and reconstrues academic-professional experience mainly through material and relational Processes, signaling doing, being and becoming, and, furthermore, that there are signs of critical reflection. In sum, as a contribution to the field, this study highlights the importance of the teacher-as-researcher stance, whereby teachers investigate and reflect on language use as social practice in their own academic-professional contexts. / Situado no campo da Lingüística Aplicada, o presente estudo focaliza representações, construções de significados e processos reflexivos de uma professora de inglês da rede pública na região nordeste brasileira, atuando em um contexto acadêmico e profissional e documentando seu percurso por meio de um diário reflexivo (BAILEY apud MATTOS 1999; PEYTON, 1990; MACHADO, 1998, 2007; ZABALZA, 2004; LIBERALI, 1999; BURTON, 2005; REICHMANN, 2007). O diário é um meio de expor os sucessos, fracassos, sensações e percepções da professora ao longo da sua trajetória. É um estudo de caso em que catorze narrativas escritas no diário reflexivo compõem o corpus desta pesquisa. As narrativas docentes produzidas pela professora trazem à tona sua voz, suas verdades pedagógicas (MOITA LOPES, 2004). Neste estudo, defendemos a idéia que a língua é usada para construir e manter relações interpessoais, para interpretar e representar o mundo do outro e o de nós mesmos, para representar o conhecimento e construir significados (HALLIDAY e MATTHIESSEN, 2004). Defendemos também que o momento fundamental na formação permanente dos professores é o da reflexão crítica sobre a prática de hoje ou de ontem para que se possa melhorar a de amanhã (FREIRE, 1996). Alicerçado nessas idéias, o objetivo geral deste trabalho é investigar as representações de experiência docente e construção de significados por meio das narrativas escritas no diário. Os objetivos específicos envolvem descrever e interpretar as escolhas léxico- gramaticais em fragmentos selecionados nas narrativas, sob a ótica do sistema de transitividade (HALLIDAY, 1994); investigar a construção de significados em relação ao contexto acadêmico-profissional constituído nas narrativas docentes, através da interpretação de outras escolhas lingüísticas significativas; como também observar de que maneira a prática diarista da professora exerce impacto no seu processo de reflexão crítica, focalizando a forma de ação reconstrução (SMYTH, 1992). Os fragmentos analisados revelam que a professora representa, reflete e reconstitui sua experiência acadêmico-profissional utilizando-se, prioritariamente, de Processos materiais e relacionais, como também, o seu processo reflexivo apresenta indícios de reflexão crítica. Concluindo, como contribuição para a área, este estudo reafirma a importância de pesquisas em que o professor de língua estrangeira assuma uma postura de professor-pesquisador, ou seja, investigando e refletindo sobre o uso da linguagem como prática social no seu próprio contexto acadêmico-profissional.

Esta tese relata a produção intelectual e metodológica da pesquisa intitulada Ativismo LGBT na imprensa brasileira: análise crítica da representação de atores sociais na Folha de S. Paulo. Tal estudo consiste na análise de como homossexuais lésbicas e gays , bissexuais e pessoas transgêneras travestis, transexuais e intersexuais (LGBT), indivíduos historicamente excluídos de seus direitos sociais, são representados/as no jornal impresso de maior circulação do Brasil, a Folha de S. Paulo. O material que serviu de corpus ao trabalho foi composto por notícias sobre a realização do evento denominado Parada do Orgulho LGBT, ação coletiva organizada na cidade de São Paulo por pessoas que defendem a garantia da igualdade de direitos a LGBT. Trata-se de textos sobre todas as edições desse evento (1997-2012), publicados no dia e na data posterior em que ocorre. A partir da análise desses dados, a pesquisa propôs investigar o discurso produzido por meio das notícias, descrevendo e interpretando os recursos lexicogramaticais potencialmente capazes de produzir representações dos atores envolvidos na Parada, sobretudo a população LGBT, a fim de compreender a construção de sentidos gerada a partir dessas representações. Para tanto, essa investigação segue os pressupostos de epistemologias críticas nos estudos linguísticos contemporâneos, particularmente aqueles cunhados no interior da Análise Crítica do Discurso, notadamente o enfoque feito pelo linguista Norman Fairclough (2003), a partir do qual podemos refletir sobre o papel da linguagem como elemento constitutivo das práticas sociais e, portanto, como componente de reprodução e transformação da sociedade. Além disso, para subsidiar a compreensão sobre as categorias lexicogramaticais que analisamos, o estudo se apoiou na teoria de Theo van Leuween (2008a), acerca da representação de atores sociais realizada por grupos nominais, e nos postulados teórico-analíticos cunhados pela Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional, especificamente no trabalho de Michael Halliday e Christian Matthiessen (2004) sobre grupos verbais, expressos através do Sistema de Transitividade. Os resultados dessa investigação apontaram para a construção de um discurso em que LGBT são representados/as por meio de itens lexicais de Generecização e, por isso, como indivíduos sem personalidade especificada, o que sugere terem identidades e comportamentos homogêneos; através de orações transitivas formadas por Processos Materiais, nas quais ocupam o lugar de Ator apenas de ações criativas sobre a Parada, recebendo, portanto, pouco poder de transformação social; e por intermédio de orações transitivas constituídas de Processos Relacionais Intensivos Atributivos, onde exercem a função de Portadores de Atributos caricaturais que os/as qualificam como constantemente animosos/as e irreverentes. Assim, sob uma interpretação do impacto desses dados no interior da conjuntura sociopolítica atual do ativismo LGBT, concluímos que esse discurso, por restringir a capacidade agentiva e diversidade identitária dos atores LGBT, revela um importante papel da Folha na produção de significados que afetam o modo como, em geral, a sociedade compreende o movimento LGBT e alimentam o tratamento hostil e estigmatizante historicamente dirigido a esses atores sociais. / This thesis describes the intellectual and methodological research entitled LGBT activism in the Brazilian press: a critical analysis of the representation of social actors in the Folha de S. Paulo. Such study consists in the analysis about how homosexuals lesbians and gays , bisexuals and transgender people trasnvestites, transsexuals and intersexs (LGBT) individuals historically excluded from their social rights, are represented in the printed newspaper with the largest circulation from Brazil, Folha S. Paulo. The material that composed the corpus of work was comprised of news about the event called LGBT Pride Parade, collective action organized in São Paulo city by people who defend the assurance of equality rights to LGBT. These are texts about all editions of this event (1997-2012), and published on and a later date at which it occurs. From analysis of these data, our research proposes to investigate the discourse produced through these news, describing and interpreting resources lexicogramaticais potentially capable of to produce representations of the actors involved in the Parade, especially the LGBT population, to understand the construction of meanings generated from these representations. Therefore, this investigation follows the assumptions of critical epistemologies of contemporary linguistic studies, particularly those minted inside the Critical Discourse Analysis, notably in the approach made by the linguist Norman Fairclough (2003), from which we can reflect about the role of language as a constitutive element of social practices, and thus as a component of reproduction or transformation of society. In addition, to support the comprehension of the categories lexicogramaticias that we analyzed, the research leaned on theory of Theo van Leuween (2008a), about the representation of social actors realized by nominal groups and on theoretical and, on analytical postulated coined by Systemic Functional Linguistics, specifically the work of Michael Halliday and Christian Matthiessen (2004) about verbal groups, expressed through of Transitivity System. The results of this research point to the construction of a discourse in which LGBT are represented through lexical items of Generecization and, therefore, as individuals without specified personality, this suggests they have homogeneous identities and behaviors; through of transitive clauses formed by Materials Processes, in which they occupy the function of Actor only in creative actions on Pride, receiving, less social power transformation; and through transitive clauses constituted formed by Intensive Attributive Relational Process, where they perform the function of Carriers of caricatures Attributes that qualify them as constantly spirited and irreverent. Thus, from an interpretation of the impact of the data in the current sociopolitical situation of LGBT activism, we conclude that this discourse, for restricting the agentive ability and identity diversity of LGBT actors, point an important role of Folha in the production of meanings that affect how, in general, the society understands the LGBT movement and feed the hostile and discriminatory treatment historically addressed these social actors.