To get – is it the equivalent to Brazilian Portuguese’s “coisar”?

• Autor(a) principal: França, João Daniel Passarelli
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Traços de Linguagem
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unemat.br/index.php/tracos/article/view/6574
• topic: Get; Theory of Enunciative and Predicatice Operations; Notion; Notional Domain; Foreign Language Teaching; Get; Teoria das Operações Predicativas e Enunciativas; Noção; Domínio Nocional; Ensino de Língua Estrangeira

This article is part of the theoretical model called Theory of Predicative and Enunciative Operations (TOPE), proposed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli (1990). Our goal is to analyze, under Culioli's perspective, the use of the get, one of the most complex verbs in the English language due to its extraordinary polysemy. This feature seriously confuses students and non-native speakers and they often cannot identify the meaning of this verb, as we could empirically observe in our classes and also in consultations with online doubt sites. Based on the Culiolian concepts of notion and notional domain (1985), we also seek to establish a dialogue between the enunciation and the teaching of structures, fields considered antagonistic, in order to find an alternative to teaching guided by mechanistic practices, which we identify as predominant in our schools. To support this discussion, we will use instances of get extracted from a broad variety of sources like the dictionaries Cambridge, Longman and McMillan, lines from songs, film dialogues, our dissertation and examples of our own creation.