Ressonâncias léxico-estruturais no discurso conversacional em português

Abstract

This paper develops a study about the lexical-structural resonance in the portuguese conversational discourse, within the functionalistic theory of the linguistic studies. It is considered resonant any utterance produced by a speaker based in a matrix another utterance previously said by the speaker, in a communicative event. The second occurrence happens to be a phrasal segment, which keeps the same structural pattern of its matrix and can reoccur without any variations or with some lexical alterations. The objective of this paper is to investigate the formal and functional functions of resonant sentences. Having the fact that some types of formal resonance are closely related with their discourse functions as a theory, an analysis, consisting of a description of the resonance present in texts of spontaneous conversations is developed. Firstly, the matrix and resonance are identified, as well as their frequency in the texts of the corpus. Secondly, the resonances are classified according to their function in the conversation, considering the argumentative and interactive aspects. After counting and classifying the discourse functions, a formal description of the resonant utterances along with their matrix is made in order to identify and observe the frequency of the more recurrent ones. It is followed by an analysis of the correlation between the formal and functional aspects of the resonance. In order to achieve that, the transentencial maps are presented. The maps are the representations of the correlation between two or more utterances said by different speakers where it is possible to establish a bilateral correspondence among the elements which constitute the utterances. Such analysis allows the visualization of the formal types explored by the speakers in order to construct the resonance with specific discourse functions and consequently verify the initial hypothesis which says that there are systematic tendencies of usage by the speakers when they resound utterances.