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Grant number: | 24/04237-0 |
Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
Start date: | November 01, 2024 |
End date: | October 31, 2026 |
Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics |
Principal Investigator: | Renato Miguel Basso |
Grantee: | Giovanna Costa Silva |
Host Institution: | Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil |
Abstract This project aims to investigate the linguistic functioning of slurs in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Among the pejorative terms in a language, slurs stand out because they affect not just a single individual, but a group of people, which makes them items with mixed semantic content, contributing to both the veri-conditional dimension and the use-conditional dimension. In addition to developing a non-exhaustive inventory of BP insults and a typology for the terms listed, we intend to theoretically investigate their semantic functioning through an analysis of BP data as proposed by Davis and McCready (2020). This is a topic little explored in Brazil, especially in formal approaches, and we hope that the results will be both analytical and theoretical, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of this linguistic phenomenon. | |
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