Brasil brasileiro: o léxico e a identidade nacional

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Lúcia Deborah Ramos de
• Orientador(a): Simões, Darcilia Marindir Pinto
• Banca de defesa: Shepherd, Tania Maria Granja , Azeredo, José Carlos Santos de , Santade, Maria Suzett Biembengut , Melo, Eliana Meneses de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Letras
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sociolinguística; Identidade social (Brasil); Semiótica; Cultura Modelos semióticos; Iconicidade (Linguística); Características nacionais; Contexto (Linguística); Linguística de córpus; Língua Portuguesa; Ensino; Iconicidade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Identity; Corpus Linguistics; Portuguese Language; Education; Iconicity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUA PORTUGUESA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/5991

This research has the purpose to perform a survey based on the dialogue between semiotic theories and Corpus Linguistics, studying, specifically, the language marks that may characterize the profile of the various Brazilian socio-cultural characteristics. Our special interest is to focus on the nouns and adjectives that nominate and / or qualify the terms 'Brazil' and 'Brazilian'. Through this study, we intend to reach a panorama which is very close to the linguistic reality of the Brazilian people and their identity. We have worked with the Corpus Linguistics, based on the book Corpus Linguistics (SARDINHA, 2004). We chose the corpus-driven research as a method, which allows raising, quantifying and tabulating the signs in use, in order to identify their frequency and lexical organization in bundles, so that they could be evaluated as to their significance in the communicative scene. The theories and works that bolstered this thesis were the Semiotics by Charles Sanders PEIRCE (2000), the works on semiotics by ECO (2007) and SANTAELLA (1996, 2000 e 2001), and the Theory of Verbal Iconicity (SIMOES, 2007). This one aims to establish the iconic potential of the search words in their context. Regarding the philosophical, social and anthropological readings on identity, this work is supported by the thoughts of NIETZSCHE (1991) in an article on the need of forgetfulness in order to build an identity. Another work which supports our conclusions is HALL s paper (1998) on the timelines that govern the discourse processing of the historical facts, which shows how they interfere in the construction of the identity. The counterpoint between these latter authors contribute to the definition of the text genre relevant to this research there were used basically argumentative texts, published in major newspapers in Rio and Sao Paulo. Regarding the identity in the network society as a contemporary issue, the work of CASTELLS (2006) was of great help. The studies on the Brazilian identity by DAMATTA (1978 and 1989) and LEITE (2002) also give basis to the considerations of this thesis. The research showed that the lexical iconicity comes to be more appropriately viewed from a broad universe of data, which has been provided by a large corpus (8 million words approximately) dealt with in the Corpus Linguistics methodology. It s therefore correct to say that components of Brazilian identity may be seized in its current state based on the analysis of a corpus built from texts published in newspapers, representing the voices and thoughts of a social stratum and opinion formers. The investigation of national identity and the self-concept of the Brazilian in the context of social and political transformations that have occurred in Brazil between 2005 and 2010 pointed out that some historically established paradigms have been going through a process of change, while others have persisted. The National Curriculum Parameters in Brazil establish topics on national identity to be developed by native teachers of Portuguese language. The results of this work are meant to be helpful to the aforementioned teachers