cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285548.v1
title: Idioms In the Light of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor: Research Evidence

description: Abstract This paper shows results of a study that analyzed some metaphoric and metonymic mappings. These were composed by twenty students of Brazilian Portuguese as an foreign language (L2) - namely, Spanish speakers as mother language (L1) - concerning two specific Brazilian Portuguese idioms (IDs), “meter os pés pelas mãos (to drop the ball) and “ter mão leve” (to be light-fingered; stealing unnoticed). In addition, th study analyzed a possible influence of the opacity level in the IDs with regard to the meaning apprehension process. As methodology, this research used individual interviews, through verbal protocols, to collect the data. The study findings corroborate the thesis where metaphoric knowledge influences online comprehension and processing of idioms in an L2 (GIBBS, 1995; KÖVECSES; SZABÓ, 1996; KAZEMI et al., 2013). Furthermore, those findings manifest two additional factors that influence both processes: transparency versus opacity levels between L1 and L2 idioms, and singularity versus multiplicity of meaning between them.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285547.v1
title: “THERE IS NO WHITE FLAG AND NO CHANCE OF GOING TO JAIL!” THE VIOLENT RELATIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND CRIMINALS IN FACÇÃO CENTRAL’S RAP SONGS

description: Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between police brutality and its repercussion in the narratives exposed by Brazilian rappers in their lyrics. The central argument is that such violence is not a consequence or a cause for the phenomenon, but a structural element in the dynamics of urban violence. Such violence is essential for establishing the “Us VS. Them”, logic that objectifies itself in the feuds between police officers and criminals, expressed by the lyrics scrutinized here. Methodologically, the historical-discursive approach of Critical Discourse Analysis was employed. The analytical basis were the procedures suggested for text analysis and the focus of the investigation was the lyrics from the rap band Facção Central. The recursive relation between criminals and police officers was highlighted, in which violence functions as a mediating instrument. Violence between these groups emerges as a solidary element, i.e., it is the social cement providing cohesion to the interaction between these groups.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285542.v1
title: The Feuilleton’s Characters: Stereotypes and Language

description: Abstract This article aimed at analyzing the social function of the roman-feuilleton genre, in the pocket-book format, and its repercussions on representations and stereotypes about women, especially in the secretarial work. As an object, it exams the book The secretary, published in Brazil in 1968. The analysis was carried out in Semiotics perspective, in the relation among sign, object and meaning; and of Linguistics, in the fictional narrative expression. It was also considered the dialogue with the Cultural History presuppositions in a view of the analysis of the meanings incorporated and occasioned on the social world based on these readings. The examination of the roman-feuilleton indicates a constituent discourse of morigeration intentions for women's role in society.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285540.v1
title: The Notion of Event In the Light of Discourse Analysis, Semantics of the Event and Tensive Semiotics

description: Abstract Within the textual/discursive studies in the 1980s, the concept of event was introduced in discourse analysis by Pêcheux. From the 2000s, other theoretical perspectives, such as the semantics of the event, which appropriates the AD definition in this own way, relates the enunciation as an event of historical-social nature to language (the system). A third line of discourse studies is the French semiotics, specifically its tensive semiotics, also develops another notion of event its own way: something unexpected and impactful. Thereunto, this paper seeks to bring together the commonalities about the concept of event from those theories, but it mainly pursues emphasize their conceptual and epistemological differences.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285538.v1
title: New Year's Message and School Blitz: Discourse, Violence and Threat in Brazil’s School Without Party Program

description: Abstract The self-titled School Without Party movement, according to its official website, would be "a joint initiative of students and parents concerned about the [supposed] political-ideological degree of contamination of Brazilian schools at all levels: from primary to higher education." In order to investigate, through critical discourse analysis, the discursive construction of threat and violence around this movement, this article takes as analytical object two texts available on the Internet, one of the Program's organizational scope and other of online journalistic media. The first text is entitled New Year's Message, and the second one is a news article from the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper about surprise visits to schools in São Paulo. The purpose is to reflect on how the private censorship discourse of the School Without Party Program can be legitimized in specific genres (message and news) and inculcated in styles designed to construct identities and identifications of social groups.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285536.v1
title: Maintenance of Discursive Topic in Student Review with Shared Authorship in Wiki Collaborative Writing

description: Abstract Collaborative writing is carried out with participation of writers in shared authorship. Characteristics of collaborative writing - as a group reach consensus prematurely, poor communication, and one member not seeing the other's work - generate stylistic differences and unconscious edits, which cause coherence issues. The purpose of this article is to verify the maintenance of the discursive topic in a review produced in collaboration on a wiki portal by high school students. The assumption was that maintaining the discursive topic in collaborative writing would be more laborious for the writers involved, because it requires group consensus negotiation. The maintenance of the discursive topic was verified and an interview with the group was performed for data analysis. The result points cause-effect relationship between characteristics of collaborative writing and maintenance of the topic, what impaired the production of coherence in the review.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285534.v1
title: Inversion of Possession: Interfaces between Language and Discourse in Brazilian Portuguese

description: Abstract This paper investigates the inversion of the relation of possession in constructions of the type "Sou seu x” (‘I am your x’)", in which x is replaced by a social function of kinship or proximity through an interface between morphosyntax and discourse analysis. Data under investigation were collected from a specific methodology on a web search site aiming at observing the occurrence of six constructions in context of usage (i) "Sou seu marido" ('I am your husband'); (ii) "Sou sua mulher" ('I am your wife'); (iii) "Sou seu pai" ('I am your father'); (iv) "Sou sua mãe" ('I am your mother'); (v) “Sou seu amigo" ('I am your (male) friend'; (vi) 'Sou sua amiga' ('I am your (female) friend'). In this type of construction, the interpretation of possession, not rarely, the interpretation of possession functions inversely. In fact, the nominal term possessed, at the morphosyntactic level, becomes a possessor term at the discourse level, especially in authoritarian utterances.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285532.v1
title: Delineating the Profile of Good and Poor Readers

description: Abstract This article aims at profiling and comparing good (GR) and poor readers’comprehension (PRC). Through a word reading task and a reading comprehension task, 49 good readers and 37 poor readers were identified among 336 students in the 8th grade of public schools in the southern Brazil, not including the intermediate group in the analysis. The investigation of the profile used a self-completion written questionnaire. The results showed difference in the groups’ reading experience and a positive correlation between reading comprehension performance and number of books read by the students in a year. The study verifies that the research on reading habits might help to comprehend the differences in good and poor readers’ profiles. Future research may improve the instrument and expand it to direct not only theoretical studies but also practical studies of clinical and pedagogical intervention.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285529.v1
title: Economic crisis' metaphors: hypertextuality and discourse on on-line journalism

description: Abstract Considering the construction of meaning and the hypertextual materiality in on-line journalism, this article aims to analyze, based on the Discourse Analysis of the French orientation, the discursive production conditions throughout the processes of digital enunciation about the world economic crisis of 2008. In order to do that, we analyse the Lehman Brothers bank's crash in USA, which was thematized in several major on-line magazines, newspapers and news portals in Brazil, such as Estadao.com.br, Folha Online, Jornalnacional.globo.com, Globo.com, ISTOÉ Dinheiro and Veja.com, which expressed through a network of hypertextual links the fear of the markets about a possible global recession. It was observed in our analysis that the crisis metaphors present in the political and in the economic discourses are usually introduced into the media discourse by means of entextualization processes and digital hypertextualization with displacements of the ideas and meanings which circulate in the society.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285525.v1
title: School Newspaper as a Counter-Hegemonic Media - A School Journalism not Framed by Dominant Commercial Journalism

description: Abstract This paper analyzes the influence of alternative newspapers in a media configuration of a school newspaper. The newspaper was produced as an experiment of teaching and learning Portuguese, developed in a municipal school in Florianópolis/SC, Brazil, whose participants were 25 students, the teacher, and two researchers. In this experiment, which was grounded in Critical Genre Analysis (BONINI 2011; 2013), alternative newspapers - e.g. neighborhood, church, party papers - were used as the basis for pedagogical work. Considering the phases of the production process of specific school newspaper, this study aimed to check the type of media produced and whether it would fit, to some extent, within a counter-hegemonic media profile.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285523.v1
title: Discourse, body cult and identity: Representations of the female body in Brazilian magazines

description: ABSTRACT In this article, we investigate representations of the female body in Brazilian magazines for women in order to interpret and explain how new models of body and identity are connected to the phenomenon of commodification of discourse, and mainly to consumer culture. Five magazine covers were analyzed based on a systemic-functional perspective on language (HALLIDAY, 2004). Our analysis demonstrates that the visual focus on the cover girls' physical attributes, combined with the cover lines naming the attributes and/or evaluating advertised products, construct the link between the discourse of body cult and the discourse of commodification. The acquisition of products and services, therefore, becomes an inescapable prerogative in the lives of Brazilian women who individually seek the promise of health, beauty and success, according to their purchasing power.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285520.v1
title: The analysis of the institutional commercialization of family agriculture via Pnae in the Médio Araguaia Rural Territory, Goiás: possibilities and limits of the approach of the new institutional economics

description: Abstract: Focusing on the New Institutional Economics (NEI) theories, the objective of this study is to verify the commercial insertion of family agriculture in the National School Feeding Program (Pnae) in the Médio Araguaia Rural Territory, Goiás (GO), in order to comprehend to what extent the NEI is useful for understanding the issues and peculiarities that involve family farmers. Through the dialectical method, the bibliographical research, and the data obtained from the percentage of acquisition of family agriculture via the 21 (twenty-one) municipalities of the Médio Araguaia Territory, GO, through the headquarters of the state education sub-secretaries in the municipalities of Iporá, Piranhas and Jussara, in the years 2014 and 2015, it was possible to verify the behavior of agents and farmers involved in the Pnae, demonstrating how the limited rationality and opportunism of agents, the asymmetry of information between and within organizations, the costs the specificity of assets, contracts, and the governance structure can help to understand and explain the economic processes of family farmers. Thus, we verified that the public policies of assistance to family agriculture organizations, such as the Extension Nucleus for Territorial Development (Nedet), are important for the effective inclusion of family farmers, and can also problematize transactions with more accuracy in analyzing them with a focus on the theory supported by the NEI, although the productive logic of family farmers does not focus only on the economic bias.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285519.v1
title: Neoliberalism and fragmentary public policies in the Center-West of Formosa, Northeast Argentina

description: Abstract: The objective of this work is to analyze the process of fragmentary folding of the productivist public policies in the territorial space of the Center-West of the province of Formosa (Northeast Argentina), between the years 1990 and 2015. The methodology that is followed is based on different documentary sources that account for this process. Through this analysis, it is observed how the dynamics of fragmentary folding of the productivist public policies structure a neoliberal scalar regulatory pattern, generator of asymmetrical relations of power, in the political, economic, and social. Thus, the territory under study is transformed with the continuity of persistent inequalities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285516.v1
title: The sliding of meanings: analyzing the interpretations produced by chinese readers on an advertisement published in latin american print media

description: This study investigates the meanings produced by Chinese participants based on their interpretation of an advertisement by Colgate company divulgated on South American print media and holder of the Silver Award at Cannes Lions 2011 Festival. According to the discursive perspective, we consider the text as a 'bolide of meanings', connected to its exteriority, namely the interdiscourse. For this reason, text is not a single closed unity, nor something with an evident or preconceived meaning to be captured by its reader. Based on this idea, different accounts from a same text are possible. In order to support this hypothesis, we carried out some interviews with semi-structured topics with four participants and analyzed their interpretations on the abovementioned advertisement, identifying the similarities and differences among them. The results show that participants produced different accounts, which identify them not only as subjects of a different culture from the one in which the advertisement was previously divulgated, but as different subjects among themselves, since interpretation is not a linear move. Rather, it is part of a complex interdiscursive game.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285514.v1
title: Dilma Rousseff political speech and Lula's ghosts: a study on the intersubjectivity in politics

description: Abstract The article analyzes Dilma Rousseff's first year of public communication as the president of Brazil (2011). We seek to understand how the agencement between her and former president Lula was produced as a discursive process of construction and validation of a power. In other words, we ask how Dilma's political persona was built while arranging that of Lula. We work this process in terms of intersubjective mediation, trying to understand how this composite set of agentivities, including Lula, the labor party, PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores), and the Brazilian left causes appear, with varying degrees of clarity, according to the context and the opportunity to highlight this new political persona. Thereunto, we observe this space of interstices, this pre-discursive and intersubjective dimension, in which occurs that phenomenon understood by Derrida as the undecidable and which characterizes the pre-symbolic and pre-understanding dimension of the social process.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285509.v1
title: Bakhtin's faces: a discourse analysis of book covers

description: Abastract This essay presents a discursive analysis of the Swiss, Brazilian and Spanish covers of the book by Jean-Paul Bronckart and Cristian Bota, titled Bakhtin unmasked: story of a liar, a fraud, a collective delirium. Founded on the dialogical perspective of discourse and dialoguing with psychoanalysis and semiotics, this article aims to understand the effects of meanings produced by these statements. There are two reasons for this proposal: first, Bronckart and Boot's book caused some academic inconvenience; second, this inconvenience generated numerous debates about the nature of the work in focus. Although the covers apparently treat about the same object, both offer the reader different elements to wage a first contact with this story. It is hoped that the analysis, more than increasing the controversy concerning the dispute in which Bronckart and Bota and their critics were involved, also reinforces the thesis that the author-creator Bakhtin transcends the individual Bakhtin.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285508.v1
title: Efficiency of the municipalities of Mato Grosso do Sul State: an approach based in deterministic frontier

description: Abstract: This article aimed to investigate the efficiency in public spending of the municipalities of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul − Brazil, covering the period between 2005 and 2016. For the analysis, we considered the following variables: administration expenses, health, education, Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDPpc), the municipal population, and the Firjan Municipal Development Index. We used as an efficiency calculation method the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The empirical results showed varied efficiencies among the municipalities, within the proposed period, and the average municipal efficiencies on the map were pointed out, which showed seven municipalities in the range I; 15 municipalities in the range II; 17 municipalities in range III; and 16 municipalities in range IV. From these results, we cannot say that a higher level of efficiency can lead to an increase or decrease in the Firjan Development Index, concluding that there is inefficiency in the management of public resources, and these do not guarantee results in improving income, longevity, and education of Mato Grosso do Sul.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285505.v1
title: Dialogism and Discourse Analysis - some effects of bakhtinian thought in the discourse studies

description: AbstractThis essay discusses effects of dialogism in modern discourse studies. It intends to show that it affects destabilizing concepts that inhabited linguistic on naturalized mode. It begins with the question of authorship, arguing that the dialogism questions notions as originality, genius and creation, are closely linked to theauthor. It seeks to demonstrate that also the notion of text suffers a strong decentralization. The dialogic principle erases the boundaries of the text as closed totality, questioning its schematic view. As a communicative link in the communicative chain, the text object is basically an abstraction, a cutout of reality. It's also postulated that the Bakhtin's notion of gender operates a Copernican revolution in discourse studies relativizing assumptions about the statements, even on their grammatical constitution, removing them from a topic and single horizon. Finally, it shows that from dialogism derives a diversity of concepts that have become commonplace (heterogeneity, intertextuality, polyphony, etc.) and they transformed the landscape of discourse studies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285502.v1
title: CAN PICTURES HAVE EXPLICATURES?

description: This paper considers the question of whether pictures can be understood to give rise to explicit meanings. In relevance-theoretic terms, this means asking whether pictures give rise to "explicatures‟. The definition of the term "explicature‟ seems to rule out this possibility except in cases where pictures include or are accompanied by material with coded meanings. The paper considers a range of non-verbal phenomena with coded meanings, including pictograms (FORCEVILLE 2011, FORCEVILLE et al 2014). It then considers whether the explicature-implicature distinction could be relevant to pictures without such elements. Some assumptions communicated by pictures seem to be more "explicature-like‟ than others, so it is possible that the distinction will be useful. The question is not merely terminological as the discussion leads to a fuller understanding of ways in which pictures communicate.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285501.v1
title: Representation of poverty by the on-line media

description: The subject in this study is the linguistic-discursive representation of poverty by online media. The theoretical and methodological support used is that of Critical Discourse Analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001) and the transitivity system of the Systemic Functional Grammar (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004). The corpus comprises ten stories published between May and November 2011 in online editions of renowned Brazilian newspapers: Zero Hora, Correio do Povo, O Globo, O Estado de São Paulo and Folha de São Paulo. Two news were selected from each newspaper and submitted to a qualitative, interpretative analysis. Initially, how each newspaper represents poverty was identified, and then it was observed how online media represents poverty. We found three representations for poverty: as an object susceptible to human action, as an entity that acts on individuals, and as a situation faced by many people.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14285499.v1
title: Understanding Portuguese idiomatic expressions as L2: evidence of verbal protocols

description: A report is presented on a study that aimed at investigating to what extent the cognitive processes used by five Portuguese L2 speakers to understand ten idiomatic phrases (EIs) in a decontextualized way would be similar to those used for the understanding of the same phrases in a context. The analysis of the data, collected by means of retrospective verbal protocols and protocols of pause, revealed that the use of analogy and associations based on previous knowledge was the preferential strategy for the decontextualized idiomatic phrases, while the use of microtextual signs was the most used one in those EIs on a context. In addition, the data pointed to an approximation only partial of the cognitive processes used by the participants in both contexts of attribution of meaning to new EIs. The results are assessed based on Liontas (2001, 2002), Polónia (2009) and Sadeghi, Dastjerd and Ketabi (2010).