Prosody, syntax, and pragmatics: insubordination in spoken Brazilian Portuguese

  • Giulia Bossaglia UFMG
  • Heliana Mello UFMG
  • Tommaso Raso UFMG

Abstract


In this paper, we approach the phenomenon of insubordination in spoken Brazilian Portuguese through data on adverbial clauses extracted from the C-ORAL-BRASIL corpus [Raso and Mello 2012]. Differently from the traditional conception of insubordination [Evans 2007], we propose a synchronic view, strongly based on the analysis of the prosody/pragmatics interface in spoken language. We show that in spoken Brazilian Portuguese formally dependent syntactic structures can acquire pragmatic autonomy by virtue of specific prosodic patterns conveying certain informational values.

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2017-10-02
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BOSSAGLIA, Giulia; MELLO, Heliana; RASO, Tommaso. Prosody, syntax, and pragmatics: insubordination in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (STIL), 1. , 2017, Uberlândia/MG. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2017 . p. 256-265.