Contribuições da Semântica para a Análise Linguística: um olhar sobre questões de vestibular.

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, José Wellisten Abreu de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6398
• topic: Linguística aplicada; Analise linguística; Semântica; Linguistic Analysis; Semantics; Vestibular questions; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

It is a consensus in the Applied Linguistics studies that guidance documents deal with the necessity of epilinguistic reflective activities in the Portuguese language classes. By associating this to the studies of Mendonça (2006), Geraldi (1984, 1997), it may be stated that the Linguistic Analysis methodological proposal is the path in which language may be taught, considering not only formal aspects, but also as a complementary alternative to reading and written production practices. Such proposal provides a conscious reflection about grammatical phenomena, yet contextualizing them as textual / discursive phenomena. Considering that Linguistic Analysis involves not only the semantic level, but also the morphosyntactic level, we intend to verify: a) the contribution of semantic studies to the accomplishment of this practice; b) the occurrence of this in Brazilian universities entrance exams, named vestibular. Therefore, the corpus of this dissertation is constituted by eight questions extracted from Portuguese language vestibular exams which were applied in some Brazilian undergraduate institutions, namely: Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Federal University of Campinas (Unicamp), Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) and Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA). The reason for having chosen such institutions resides in our interest to include all Brazilian regions. The corpus was not collected considering the importance of the exams in relation to the institutions where they are applied, but as representative data of the presence of Linguistic Analysis in this type of exam. In our qualitative analysis, we demonstrated that the exams questions explore the semantic level when the reflection upon the functioning of Lexical relations in the texts are demanded, such as synonymy and ambiguity, but also a reflection upon meaning effects of the grammatical constructions. In this research, we intended to demonstrate that reflection upon language, in the Linguistic Analysis terms, can be accomplished through the work with significance.