Uma aplicação da teoria da língua em ato ao português do Brasil

In this article we present the first application of the theory of Languagein Act (CRESTI, 2000b) to Brazilian Portuguese. After a summaryof the theory is presented, we show how a text can be divided inutterances and how the utterance can be divided in tone units, throughthe perception of terminal an...

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Main Authors: Tommaso Raso, Heliana Mello, Andréa Ulisses Jesus, Luciano Alves de Deus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2012-11-01
Series:Revista de Estudos da Linguagem
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Online Access:http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/2453
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Summary:In this article we present the first application of the theory of Languagein Act (CRESTI, 2000b) to Brazilian Portuguese. After a summaryof the theory is presented, we show how a text can be divided inutterances and how the utterance can be divided in tone units, throughthe perception of terminal and non terminal prosodic breaks. Basedon dedicated entonational profiles, we show the informational taggingof the tone units, which is motivated by prosodic, functional anddistributional criteria. We conclude by showing how the prosodicand informational frame clearly change, depending on turn size andevidence of the illocutionary principle.
ISSN:0104-0588
2237-2083