Lexical-grammatical education: basics for reflective practice to deal with the preposition por (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Grant number: 11/14698-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): November 01, 2011
• Effective date (End): October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Márcia Cristina Romero Lopes
• Grantee: Thatiana Ribeiro Vilela
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This current project focuses on a specific case study of the preposition POR in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The aim here is to provide valuable insights into reflective pedagogical proposals targeted to the teaching/learning process of this category. In order to achieve such goal, it is essential to describe the functions of the preposition through the linguistic system as to defining a semantic property capable of explaining its various discourse functions, which leads to our pursuit of retrieving regularities proper to the uses of this preposition. This analysis plays an important role in understanding the constitutive variation of the preposition, as well as, the construction of the meaning in utterances and in discourse. (AU)