Morphosyntactic, prosodic, functional and distributional description of the information unit of Parenthesis in spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Saulo Mendes Santos; Giulia Bossaglia

doi:10.58967/caletroscopio.v6.nesp.2018.3829

Saulo Mendes Santos UFMG
Giulia Bossaglia UFMG

DOI: https://doi.org/10.58967/caletroscopio.v6.nesp.2018.3829

Abstract

Resumo: Este tem por objetivo apresentar uma descrição preliminar da unidade informacional de Parentético (PAR), baseada no corpus C-ORAL-BRASIL (RASO; MELLO, 2012), representativo da fala informal da variedade mineira do português brasileiro, e embasada na Language into Act Theory (L-AcT; CRESTI, 2000). Foram pesquisadas as principais características prosódicas (duração, frequência fundamental, intensidade) e morfossintáticas (núcleos sintáticos, preenchedores mais frequentes), bem como características funcionais (metanarrativos, metalinguísticos e modais) e distribucionais (posição dentro do enunciado) desta específica unidade informacional. Nossos resultados sugerem que exista uma distinção funcional entre PAR curto vs. longo. Além disso, a unidade informacional de PAR parece, por vezes, carregar força ilocucionária.
Palavras-chave: Fala espontânea. Parentético. Português brasileiro. C-ORAL-BRASIL.

Abstract: This paper aims at presenting a preliminary description of the informational unit of Parenthesis (PAR), based on the corpus C-ORAL-BRASIL (RASO; MELLO, 2012), representative of the informal speech of the Minas Gerais’s variety of Brazilian Portuguese, and underpinned on the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT; CRESTI, 2000). The main prosodic (length, fundamental frequency and intensity) and morphosyntactic (head types and most frequent fillers) characteristics, as well as functional (metanarrative, metalinguistic, and modal) and distributional (position within the utterance) characteristics were surveyed for this specific information unit. Our results suggest that a distinction between short and long PAR exist. Also, the information unit of PAR seems at times to carry illocutionary force.
Keywords: Spontaneous speech. Parenthesis. Brazilian Portuguese. C-ORAL-BRASIL.

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