Construções de concernência: retomada e especificação na articulação textual

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the contexts of use of the "construction of concern [in what X to Y]", which plays a cohesive role in the textual mesh when performing the function of resuming and specifying an object of discourse. To this end, we analyzed the microconstructions no que diz respeito a, no que se refere a; no que tange a and no que concerne a, in Brazilian Portuguese. The data are extracted from the now Sample, from the Portuguese Corpus, considering the period from 2012 to 2019 and as a theoretical reference, the assumptions of the Use-Based Grammar Constructions are adopted. In this working hypothesis, the microconstructions analyzed here are used to resume referents of statements of the first textual portion and project a specification of this referent in the second textual portion. The general results indicate that the construction of concern occurs in the resumption of a certain referent between the two textual portions that involve microconstruction. This resumption can occur in two ways: (i) all-specified-part resumption; and (ii) all-specified-selection resumption. In addition, they can occur from two formal configurations, namely: intra-orational, where we have the resumption of a term/idea in the same period in which the micro-constructions are used, or between textual portions, different paragraphs, interactional. The construction of concern: resumed all-part specified, the specification occurs by resuming a previous element and introducing new information in the second textual part. The contexts of use of micro-constructions are varied, including the resumption of specific terms, general themes and even the introduction of new information. Regarding the construction of concern in the form of all-selection resumption specified, it is a discursive strategy to specify a referent already mentioned in the first part of the text, when there are multiple referents in the first textual portion and it is necessary to select a specific one to resume in the second part. In addition, the construction of concern, which involves the resumption of a referent (X) through another (Y) to specify it, reveals different syntactic and semantic roles acting in this construction, as well as the gradient relationship. The referent resumed and specified (Y) can vary from a lexeme to a discursive topic, occurring mainly in previous paragraphs. The specifying relationship plays a role in the coercion of referent Y, indicating a discursive object. The analysis of the contexts of use also highlighted the relational, adjectival, specifying and adverbial role of the construction. The results also reveal a predominance of microconstructions in the news and opinion article genres, which can be attributed to the argumentative character of these genres.