Léxico e cognição: as representações de mundo por meio de designações infantis

• Autor(a) principal: Butti, Cassiano
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14473
• topic: Léxico; Cognição; Analogia; Lingua portuguesa -- Lexicologia; Linguistica; Lexical; Cognition; Analogy; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUA PORTUGUESA

This Dissertation is within the research line of History and Description of the Portuguese Language of the Post-Graduation Studies Program in Portuguese Language of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and focuses on the process of senses, attributed to certain lexical units, by children between 3 and 9 years old. Grounded on the principles and presuppositions of Lexicology, as well as the Textual Linguistics of the cognitive-socialinteractive branch, its main purpose is to examine, by means of childish designations, the cognitive strategies developed by these children in situations of particular discursive events. The research is justified by three main reasons: a) there are few works aimed at the study of the processes of construction of lexical senses by the child; b) Lexicology has not yet formulated theoretical-analytical procedures for the treatment of the childish vocabulary; c) the importance of the activation of previous knowledge in the movements of textual production either oral or written by means of inferential procedures has been widely disclosed, but it was not determined how this knowledge is mobilized-demobilizedremobilized, in order to enable the comprehension of the representation models in the human memory. These gaps prevent the recognition of the extensiveness of the order and organization models that guide the speech activities. In the sense, by conceiving the word as a sign by means of which the Man represents his knowledge about the world, it was presented a critical reflection that aimed at establishing a relationship between thinking, language, parole and speech; socialization and sociabilization; imitation as copy and as mimesis; definition and designation, among other aspects. The methodological procedure implied the selection and analysis of a corpus extracted from the work Dicionário de Humor Infantil (Childish Humor Dictionary), by Pedro Bloch (1998). The heterogeneity of designations registered by the author, as well as the complexity of their content, required from the researcher an analysis and synthesis procedure by means of three complementary movements: a) the first one, which would try to locate the designations within the language categories; b) the second one, which would enlarge the previous movement, deciding for a procedure of semantic character; c) the last one, which would focus on the mental representations by means of the cognitive categories Projection, Identification and Transfer: those which ensure, by analogical principles, the identification of the unfamiliar by the familiar . The results obtained showed that, from the point of view of the lexical-grammatical structures, the childish designations are similar to those registered as lexicographic definitions, but are different from the latter in regards to their representation forms: on the one hand, the language dictionary, defining words in accordance with the senses social and culturally institutionalized, and, on the other hand, the child, designing the world in accordance with his/her knowledge built from his/her experiences and daily life experiences. These results point towards a milestone of social cognitions being constructed and to cultural categories of order of knowledge of the world with a high level of flexibility and in an expansion process, given the low level of socialization and high level of sociabilization, within the oral records of speech activities of the child