Aug 2026· Revista de Estudos Interdisciplinares· Vol 25, pp. e3668· 0 citations
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This study investigates the meanings and uses of the word “fire” as perceived by sixth-semester undergraduate students in the Portuguese Language program at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Ministro Petrônio Portella Campus. It aims to analyze the concepts attributed to the word by the students, as well as the utterances they produce, in order to understand how different contexts of use contribute to the construction of meaning. The research is grounded in studies related to Pragmatics and to the notions of meaning, sense, and context, drawing on contributions from authors such as Martelotta (2003), Fiorin (2004), Levinson (2007), Flores (2008), Góes and Cruz (2006), Paveau (2006), Neves (1997), and Moura (1999), among others. The corpus consists of data produced by the participating students through a questionnaire designed to investigate their perceptions of the word “fire” and its different uses. The analysis was conducted based on categories established from the collected data, relating the concepts presented by the participants to the utterances they produced as examples of use. The results indicate that the students recognize different possibilities of interpretation for the word “fire” and are able to produce varied utterances based on the meanings attributed to it, demonstrating the influence of context on the construction of meaning. Thus, the study contributes to reflections on language use and on the importance of analyzing the contexts in which utterances are produced and interpreted in Portuguese language teaching.
This paper has as its research problem the fact that although many scholars present different approaches to the concept of ambiguity in their works, among those that were found, few – if any – studies are based on more current theoretical frameworks such as those of Cognitive Linguistics; a fact we consider to be relevant, as research in this field has made significant advances. Within this context, the general objective of this study is to refine the concept of ambiguity by considering, in addition to grammatical aspects, the mental spaces theory (MST). To this end, we investigate how meaning is constructed in WhatsApp messages that contain ambiguous stickers, based on the theories of mental spaces by Fauconnier (1994 and 1997), conceptual blending by Fauconnier and Turner (2002), and frame semantics by Fillmore (1976, 1982, and 1985). The analysis, based on WhatsApp messages, explains how double meanings are constructed, highlighting the specific blending processes involved in building the ambiguous meaning of the messages.
Pedro Jorge da Silva Marques, Maria Elias Soares· Revista de Estudos Interdisc...· 0 citations
This study focuses on the comparative analysis of verb tense meanings in Russian and Modern Hebrew. Despite belonging to different language families, both languages feature the past, present, and future tenses of the indicative mood[1], which may indicate a corresponding similarity in meanings. While these forms often objectively reflect real-time relationships, systematic discrepancies are observed between the meanings of verb tenses and their actual uses in each language. To address this, we propose invariant meanings for each tense that will underlie all its uses, including transposed ones. Based on the Columbia School sign-oriented linguistic framework (see Diver, 1981; 1995; García, 1975; Tobin, 1990a; 1995), we focus on verb tense usage in “Kolyma Tales” (“Kolymskie rasskazy”) by Varlam Šalamov (2013) and “Sumchi” by Amos Oz (1978), along with their literary translations into Hebrew (2005) and Russian (2015), respectively. On the one hand, we postulate that the tense systems of both languages share a common semantic content, which relates to the speaker’s or writer’s perception of actions, states, or events at the moment of speaking or writing. This explains the similarity in tense usage between original texts and their translations. On the other hand, differences in tense usage are more likely attributed to language-specific communicative strategies – standardized ways of combining invariant meanings to convey particular messages, as described within Columbia School theory.
[1] While Russian has forms, traditionally categorized as perfective and imperfective verbs, and Hebrew possesses a so-called compound past tense expressing hypothetical or habitual actions in the past, these facts are beyond the scope of this paper.
[1] While Russian has verbs, categorized as perfective and imperfective, and Hebrew possesses a compound past tense expressing hypothetical or habitual actions in the past, these facts are beyond the scope of this paper.
I. Dreer· Theoria et Historia Scientia...· 0 citations
This paper was written during the course “Introduction to Linguistic Theories and Analysis,” offered by the PPGL – Graduate Program in Linguistics at UFSCAR – Federal University of São Carlos, in February 2026. During the course, we had the opportunity to develop a paper, following the conclusion of the course, with the aim of defining the semantic fields of the two terms mentioned, as well as examining their use within the field of linguistics. Methodologically, the text is structured as a literature review of works addressing science, linguistics, and language, drawn from both physical and digital collections. The primary reference consulted in this approach is Karl Popper’s, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (2013). As intended outcomes of this study, we hope to compile a set of arguments that will, in principle, serve to integrate some of the theoretical frameworks into our doctoral dissertation (in progress, UFSCAR, 2024-2028).
M. Oliveira, Dirceu Cleber Conde· Revista de Estudos Interdisc...· 0 citations
The internet-popular construction “méi X yìng Y” has emerged with high frequency in recent years, and its holistic meaning exhibits non-compositionality, meeting the defining criteria of constructions in Construction Grammar. Drawing on Goldberg’s Construction Grammar theory, this paper systematically analyzes the formal features, component functions, and syntactic distribution of the “méi X yìng Y” construction. On this basis, it introduces Appraisal Theory to reveal the nature of its evaluative semantics, its evaluative meaning is not a simple positive-negative dichotomy, but rather forms an attitudinal continuum ranging from criticism, ridicule, helplessness and affirmation, with the shift in evaluative orientation constrained by contextual factors, speaker stance, and communicative intent. Finally, grounded in the Sān-Yī Yǔfǎ (Form-Function-Context) approach, this paper proposes a four-step pedagogical pathway for Chinese learners, form recognition, function understanding, contextual judgment and productive application, and designs specific teaching plans with typical contexts, providing a reference for the teaching of internet-popular constructions in L2 Chinese education.
Huang Si-li· English Language Teaching an...· 0 citations
This article uses frame semantics, the concept of a communicative frame, us-age-based construction grammar theory, and a corpus-based quantitative methodology to examine the characteristics of constructions in Polish that contain adverbial complements (ACs), the noun rzecz ‘thing’, and the quasi-participle ujmując ‘expressing/putting’. The author analyzes examples of this construction found in the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP) to understand its structural, semantic, distributional, and discourse-related features. In addition, the study identifies ACs that are strongly and weakly associated with this construction, and those that are more or less dependent on it. The research shows that this construction is often combined with various categories of ACs, each corresponding to distinct semantic and communicative frames. Furthermore, it has been observed that this construction is motivated by a specific conceptual metaphor, appears in different language registers, takes various forms, and serves multiple functions in discourse.
This article uses frame semantics, the concept of a communicative frame, usage-based construction grammar theory, and a corpus-based quantitative methodology to examine the characteristics of constructions in Polish that contain adverbial complements (ACs), the noun
rzecz
‘thing’, and the quasi-participle
ujmując
‘expressing/putting’. The author analyzes examples of this construction found in the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP) to understand its structural, semantic, distributional, and discourse-related features. In addition, the study identifies ACs that are strongly and weakly associated with this construction, and those that are more or less dependent on it. The research shows that this construction is often combined with various categories of ACs, each corresponding to distinct semantic and communicative frames. Furthermore, it has been observed that this construction is motivated by a specific conceptual metaphor, appears in different language registers, takes various forms, and serves multiple functions in discourse.