Lexic and enunciation: enunciative regularities of nouns

• Grant number: 19/22495-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: May 01, 2020
• End date: April 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Márcia Cristina Romero Lopes
• Grantee: Márcia Cristina Romero Lopes
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Grounded in the field of enunciative linguistics, this research aims at analyzing the semantic functioning of nouns in Brazilian Portuguese so as to build a linguistic description of enunciative basis for this class. In order to do so, we propose to retrace, within the linguistic system, regularities of enunciative order specific to the language activity that, constituting the semanticism of the terms to be analyzed, sustain different values in usages. Searching for these regularities, which we called invariances, leads to reexamining semantic properties commonly attributed to the nouns composing the corpora. From this perspective, the study aims at better determining the nouns' potentiality to refer and, more specifically, how the semantics of nouns help understand, on the one hand, the different values they acquire when uttered; on the other hand, the ways these values are established in relation to the context. This research uses the Theory of Predicative and Enunciative Operations as its theoretical and methodological framework, the foundation of which can be found in Culioli (1990, 1999a, 1999b, 2018). In this framework, the works of Franckel (2002), De Vogüé, Franckel e Paillard (2011) e De Vogüé (2013) directed to the semantic identity of linguistic units and their principles of variation from an enunciative perspective also stand out. (AU)